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anybody selling a turbo trainer
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before i buy a new one off ebay ,cash waiting
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I've got a tacx flow which gives you power for a bargain price of £150 if you are interested?
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well, when I say it gives you power, it tells you how much power you are putting out lol!
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a bit rich ,i was thinking 120 tops ,sorry
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Nae probs. could go to 130?
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is it fluid or what ,,i could go 130 at a push ,du have skewer and its ready to use i take it ,any pics ,defo interested
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It's magnetic with a digital head unit that measures power. Huvane used it for ages - need to look out tonight to see if I can find the cadence sensor for it as well - don't normally bother with cadence so need to hunt the drawers for that bit.
It can be quite noisy. Not sure if you live in a flat you may be better with a fluid one? -
plugs into the mains and head unit sits on your handlebars and gives you all sorts of data to keep your mind off the monotony of what you're doing ;-)
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It's a proper beast of a turbo this. Buy it!
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Aye, it's a belter but might as well try and get some cash seeing as I canny be arsed with the turbo these days - too much like hard work!
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jesus, for £130 that is a deal
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yeah ,i live in a flat and noise is a concern ,iv heard that some are like a jet engine ,but put some pics up ,fuck the neighbours
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ok, will take some tonight. Have lost the instructions but you can download them as a PDF from the tacx website anyway.
Fuck the neighbours :-) Glad I don't live next door lol !!
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godlovesatryer said:
yeah ,i live in a flat and noise is a concern ,iv heard that some are like a jet engine ,but put some pics up ,fuck the neighbours
It's the fan ones that are noisy. They're also the most road-like. Magnetic and fluid are similar noise levels but shit magnetic ones give a crap feel. This one I think does some magic with electromagnets to give you a really good feel. -
yeah i googled it and wiggle do it ,if its the one in the advert (and working ok,)i would take it .how noisy is it ,,am i gona get an asbo lol
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not trying to scupper any deals here, but the power reading on the Flow is notoriously unreliable so is not a good measure of power output. it varies between sessions and also drifts within sessions
my mate brought his over last friday & we did a test if his flow with my Powertap
the flow overread significantly, reading ~240W when the PT read ~180W and the flow read ~400w when the PT read ~300w.
so take flow readings with a pinch of salt.
To be honest, i preferred the feel of my Tacx Satori to the Flow.
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It's hard to say about noise really, a bit subjective. My other half moans when I use it in the kitchen and she canny hear coronation street.
As for the power. I'm a high twenties 10 minute tt rider and using online bike calculators it gives you an indication that this requires about 200-210W. I can do a 230-240W effort on the Flow for this amount of time which would suggest a perhaps 30W over estimate of power.
However, it's all relative. As long as I made sure the resistance to the back wheel was constant then I found the power readings to be consistent.
A google will show you that the 30W over estimate seems to be typical of the Flow's power estimation. Perhaps your Powertap needs calibrated Gerry ;-) -
I would say it sounds like a washing machine on a spin cycle, about as close as I can suggest to give you an idea of the noise
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power readings are a thing i dream of lol,prob not enough to power a 60 w bulb for me :D .iv b een told that a certain person on here can sprint at 1500 watts or thereabouts ! :O
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hey mate, can't find the cadence sensor, sorry :-( You can get them online for around a tenner or fifteen quid i think.
Would sell it for 120 considering. Let me know if still interested -
Didn't want to start a new thread to ask the same question. Anybody selling a Turbo at the moment?
