The Qubo Power Mag Smart B+ is a wheel-on trainer. The Turno and Volano Smart B+ are direct drive and include adaptors for 142x12.
The Tuo (above) is a wheel-on design that comes with an adaptor that allows you to use 10mm or 12mm diameter thru axles up to 148mm. The Tacx Neo has been our benchmark smart trainer since it was launched in 2015, topping T3’s round-up of the best turbo trainers last year. Tacx Training (Zwift, Trainerroad, Kinomap. If your bike is 148x12, you need a different adaptor that's not supplied with the trainer. 00 Tacx vortex turbo trainer - a pretty solid choice for your first zwift turbo. Elite Interactive TrainersĮlite's Interactive Trainer range comprises:Īll of these except the Tuo are direct drive, and are supplied with 142x12 thru axle adaptors. The resistance unit is enclosed to absorb sounds. We give links to the relevant adaptors when mentioned down below (just click on the name). It connects to most popular training apps, like Zwift, Tacx and Trainerroad.
If in doubt, you're safest sticking with one brand. Kinetic says that its Traxles are "specifically engineered to work on Kinetic trainers the system also works with most other trainer brands." If you don't know which type of thru axle your bike uses, ask the manufacturer or the shop where you bought it.Ĭould you use Brand A's trainer with Brand B's adaptors? Potentially, although Brand A might say that its own adaptors provide the most stability. It even connects to your favorite apps, such as Zwift, Tacx, and TrainerRoad. For a wheel-on trainer, you swap the standard QR for a trainer-compatible QR (where necessary that's one from Tacx below), you lock the bike in place and away you go.īeware, though, that if the adaptor screws to your bike the two thread pitches need to match – hence Kinetic's Traxle adaptors coming in three different versions. The Tacx Flow Smart trainer gives you everything you need to train all. Things are simple if your bike uses a 5mm QR skewer to hold the rear wheel in place. If you have an older version of any of these trainers, requirements could be different. The table refers to compatibility between 142x12 and 148x12 thru axle bikes and current trainer models from major brands. We'll unpack it a bit further down the page. The chain runs on a cassette that's fixed to the trainer. With a direct drive turbo trainer (like the Wahoo Kickr, above), you whip off your rear wheel and clamp the bike to the trainer via its rear dropouts.
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