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Video: Eurobike faves – Tacx Bushido turbo trainer

We had the choice of thousands of top tbikes and we picked a turbo trainer… so it must be good

Okay, going to the world's biggest bike show full of the most beautiful bikes in the world and picking out a turbo trainer may strike some of you as a little odd… but hey it takes all sorts to make this crazy world so let's roll with it shall we? And anyway the turbo in question, the Bushido from Tacx, is a very smart piece of kit indeed. Ultimate turbo-nirvana has not yet been reached, the Bushido won't make you a post session cup of tea and offer you a restorative slice of madeira… but it's not far off.

This is a properly wireless programmable resistance trainer that's designed to be taken anywhere and which uses your energy to power all the bells and whistles gizmos. At its heart is a computer that allows you to tailor your training sessions exactly to your needs, you get all the usual info you'd expect on a touchscreen display, add in a PC upgrade and it'll connect wirelessly to your PC and give you the virtual and networking functionality of Tacx's range of virtual reality trainers like the iMagic.

The Bushido also has a powerful brake integrated in to the shell and a neat array of LED lights tell you when you are putting out too much or too little power by either lighting up either red or green as Dave'll tell you in this video about one of his Eurobike faves.

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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Jon Burrage | 13 years ago
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Ive had one for about 4 months, an ebay special. It is fantastic, I can re-ride routes that Ive done in real life simply by downloading my garmin gps data. Lovely!

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dave atkinson | 13 years ago
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RRP is 824.99 but you can get one for less than £600 online, Wiggle and CRC both stock it...

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caketaster | 13 years ago
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Right, so how much is it and where can I get one?

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