You also seem to use your own blindness to accuse other people of being blind. What I have to Ant+ is not loyalty, blind or otherwise! I choose garmin as they have proven to be amongst the best units in terms of cycling and multi sport watches etc. This has lead me, along with quite a few others, to invest in various other Ant+ accessories. So what you are mistaking for blind loyalty is in fact a genuine investment in a technology platform.

The variance between the trainer and the power meters was pretty much all over the map from 1w to 100w. I have ridden with the fit app about 60 miles and it is a bit glitchy if I dont restart my phone before using. I’m using a samsung note edge with a wahoo blue sc (because its dual band) and a KK road machine smart control. And I did the firmware update with out letting my screen sleep,( wont work if it does) Then tell everyone you have found a more capable/stable open platform and start lobbying to make sure they will adopt it. You can see the resistance took a bit of time to change in the short sprints and the power meter a bit of time to catch up but this is what you would expect from a trainer of this type. No complaint here. You can see in the cadence graph for Section B that the unit adjusts resistance despite fluctuations in cadence.

Conclusion

Loved creating my own workouts on the phone to simulate some hard summer climbs, made some specific intervals and also enjoyed the ton of workouts that were included.

For everyday objects the energy unit in the metre-kilogram-second system is the joule. A 2-kg mass (4.4 pounds on Earth) moving at a speed of one metre per second (slightly more than two miles per hour) has a kinetic energy of one joule. The unit in the centimetre-gram-second system is the erg, 10 −7 joule, equivalent to the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight. The electron volt is used on the atomic and subatomic scales. Where the unit struggles a little bit is rapid changes in cadence and or power. The electric resistance I feel pretty sure is just not as responsive as direct drive (having never ridden a direct drive). Where I feel it most is in climbing, going around sharp curves where the grade changes suddenly several times. It's not awful, but you can tell the unit is kind of behind adjusting things trying to figure out where the resistance should be. Aucun capteur ou module complémentaire supplémentaire n'est nécessaire. La nouvelle connectivité ANT + permet également de diffuser les données d'entraînement directement sur les ordinateurs de vélo en utilisant le protocole de communication comme les appareils Garmin ™ ou les applications d'entraînement qui permettent d'utiliser des dongles ANT + sur les ordinateurs de bureau.

Was a happy kurt kinetic road machine user. Shortly after acquiring it the InRide pod came out. I was overjoyed and loved the ease of use. Was new to training with power but really feel like I got my money’s worth. Fantastic experience and value. Loved the convenience of running everything off my phone. As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Turbo Trainers. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Kinetic, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

However lots of us still use a garmin head unit to draw data from our trainers, though I’m no fan of garmin. We now even have the option of setting workouts from those head units. As it stands your new trainer doesn’t support that as far as I can see. In general, last year’s news didn’t go over well – partially because the market was just moving too fast for Kinetic. There were numerous new trainers and lower price points with far more functionality. Kinetic was competing at the same price as trainers with full resistance control, ANT+/Bluetooth Smart, and countless other connected features. While it’s true that Kinetic had a better road feel than some, it wasn’t really enough to cover the functionality gap for most. And we’re not talking resistance control training here- just monitoring, recording and reviewing what comes out of the sensor unit. No real way to customize displays. Generally clunky. You can’t even bulk upload all of your workout history (Y’know, that 4 months of workouts you amassed before the app would even link to strava… To be fair, I only use strava, to which I must upload each old saved workout *individually*. Dunno if the other linked app connections make more sense, but it doesn’t look like it). This trainer is best suited to long-standing climbs and to be used in a fixed location, where it will not need to be moved. Value The main thing you want power measurements to be is repeatable. If you can generate more power than before, or the same power for a given heart rate, then that looks a lot like progress. The baseline assumption though is that the figures are comparable. Given my experience of the Kinetic, I'd say that they are. Whether that 300W is actually 300W, or 280W or 320W, is less relevant; the process of doing a roll-down test before each session has delivered very consistent numbers for me. 300W on the trainer feels the same, and does the same things to me in terms of tiredness and heart rate, in a repeatable way.Right now it seems like it’s about 20-25 watts on the high side, not a specific percentage. We’re doing a bunch of bench testing this week to improve the accuracy, we should have an app update coming soon, please watch for that and install it when it comes out. I totally do not care about ant+ because I’m so happy today using my phone. I totally don’t care about subscriptions. I can’t believe the storm that is showing up in this comments section. I guess there’s a seriously passionate market. Mostly though a lot of you come across as pretty narrow minded to me. Sort of reads like when you come across someone still using a dos-based computrainer from the late 90s, there’s no discussion they are very happy in their own world, oblivious about how simple and awesome the modern stuff can be. our iOS App supports the Mio Velo and 4iii’s Viiiiva for ANT+ bridging (something Apps based on Wahoo’s closed-source SDK cannot support) Once you've got it turning, the feel of the fluid brake is outstandingly smooth, with tailwind-style speed sustain between sprints to boost morale. The resistance curve is shallow though which means it was one of the few trainers we've tested to need pushing past 40kph to hit a 500W peak – and you'll need a large chainring or a really well-spun compact to really give yourself a low-cadence strength beasting. Yeah this pretty much sums up what we’ve experienced with TrainerRoad and the KK Smart Control unit in ERG mode using PowerMatch to control the resistance. It’s prety much all hit and miss.

How about you give our kinetic energy calculator a try? This tool does any and every calculation for you after typing the mass and velocity of an object. It even works in reverse, just input any two known variables, and you will receive the third! If you don't know the object's speed, you can easily calculate it with our velocity calculator. By the way, I am leading a group of product developers inside an IT company. This is basic stuff here guys, just ask anyone. Ability to simulate long climbs (e.g 10% for 1 hour), but I don’t mind using my gears to change the resistanceA good trainer or set of rollers isn’t just for the when the weather forces us indoors—indoor riding can be great for the time-crunched cyclist, urban riders with limited route options, or anyone recovering from an injury. Even the most weather-hardened winter riders sometimes like to control the environment they're riding in. Jeese. In this day and age, that is pretty much the recipe to piss off your customers. I’m an ex-customer, I’ve not got much skin in this game except for my friends who are left holding the bag and didn’t think they’d bought something that required a subscription. But if you want a smart trainer that you can really throw around, the big green machine is for you.