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Video: riding the world's most expensive indoor trainer, the Tacx Magnum

Got £7,000 spare and plenty of space in the west wing? This might be the turbo trainer for you

Eurobike's full of exciting and expensive things. One such thing was the Tacx Magnum, which at the salty price of £7,000 is surely the world's most expensive indoor trainer. You could buy a car, etc and so on.

Anyway, we got Hilko Schravenhoff from Tacx to start us off on the Magnum. If you've ever been on rollers, it's a bit like that. If you've ever been on rollers in jeans and crocs, riding a bike that's two sizes too small, you'll probably know exactly how we felt. Anyway, it's a very clever system, and any worries you might have that it's going to spit you off the end like so many treadmill fail videos are quickly allayed. If you go too far backwards, you just stop. The Magnum has a startup process whereby you roll forwards and backwards so the sensors can pickup your wheel, and then you just ride. If you go towards the front you speed up, and if you hang back you slow down. It's all quite intuitive. You can even do it no-handed. Well, Hilko can. I can't.

Because it's a treadmill you can go running on it too, and as such it's probably on the Christmas list of plenty of triathletes out there. With Zwift now supporting running as well as cycling, it's pretty much the perfect hardware for that, so long as you have the space – and the pockets – for it. It supports all the major training apps, and Tacx have their own training environment too.

http://magnum.tacx.com/

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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cyclisto | 6 years ago
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@peted I will be ownest I hadn't seen the video or read the article, but now that I saw an experienced rider like Dave struggling to keep his balance, I am quite sure that there will be a decent percent of riders that will end up in the hospital trying to explain how they have had a cycling accident in their living room

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cyclisto | 6 years ago
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I had bought a set of auxiliary lights from Tacx that worked for around a month or two and when they went off I replaced them under warranty. In the third time I just got tired and decided to use only my trusty chinese ebay powerful torch and to spam around about the crapiness of Tacx. Well this is a perfect opportunity! At such a multicomponent product I can only guess what will go wrong first...

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peted76 replied to cyclisto | 6 years ago
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cyclisto wrote:

I had bought a set of auxiliary lights from Tacx that worked for around a month or two and when they went off I replaced them under warranty. In the third time I just got tired and decided to use only my trusty chinese ebay powerful torch and to spam around about the crapiness of Tacx. Well this is a perfect opportunity! At such a multicomponent product I can only guess what will go wrong first...

I think you're missing the point of this article.. seriously. Dave went to Eurobike in crocs.. uh huh!

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peted76 | 6 years ago
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NNGG !

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