Latest Price: £648.99 – SAVE: 7% RRP:699.99
We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £648.99 on Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.7/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 128 products in the Turbo Trainers category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.
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Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer reviews
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Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer Specification
- . With the latest iteration of its Flux indoor trainer range, Tacx maintains its place at the peak of keeping you in top shape when the roads can’t be ridden on. With the formidable Flux 2, power measurement, accuracy and realism are at the highest levels they have ever been to ensure the most immersive and intuitive static ride available. The most silent direct drive trainer on the market, it is the perfect companion to achieve vital off-season gains and prepare you for the podium. Intuitive and Immersive Smart Indoor Trainer. Kitted out with full Smart technology, the Flux 2 gives you access to high-level wireless technology to make every ride feel as true as can be. ANT+(FE-C) and Bluetooth Smart technology allows you to sync easily to programs such as Tacx Desktop app and Zwift’s virtual riding experiences, keeping you on top of your stats at every stage of your session. With built-in electronics also offering a stand-alone mode, you can ramp up the reps at your own pace if you prefer Realistic Indoor Resistance. Gauging power measurement to within 2.5%, a heavier 7.6kg flywheel. This replicates as real of an inertia as possible and an incline simulation of 16% to really get those legs pumping and the sweat running. With sprint resistance maxing out at 2000 watts, it takes hard and fast riding to new levels as you keep yourself road ready all year round Features: Trainer Type:¬†Interactive Smart direct drive with electric brake Axle Compatibility:¬†Width of rear fork: Race: 130mm; MTB: 135mm, 142mm & 148mm Cassette and Wheel Compatibility:¬†Shimano and SRAM, 8-11 speed Power Accuracy Measurement:¬†Within 2.5% Wireless Connectivity:¬†ANT+ FE-C, Bluetooth Smart open Flywheel Weight:¬†7 6kg Maximum Power:¬†2000 watts Maximum Incline:¬†16% Maximum Torque:¬†41Nm Maximum Brake Force:¬†120N Included Items:¬†Quick release for road bikes and mountain bikes (5mm), direct drive quick release with adapter set 142x12mm & 148x12mm, 1 month Tacx Premium softwareBuy¬†Tacx Nutrition & Training¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Product codes: 8714895055152
- T2980
No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Turbo Trainers.
Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 128 different products in the Turbo Trainers category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 38 products from Tacx (although only 23 of the 38 are in the Turbo Trainers category).
Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Turbo Trainers. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.
Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Tacx. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer to help you see how the prices stack up.
We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Turbo Trainers. There are 128 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 128, the average price is £205.07. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £4.49 and most expensive was £2008.94.
The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Tacx. The average price was £116.26 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £2.99 up to £1099.99 with Tacx products.
And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Tacx products that appear specifically in the Turbo Trainers category. So you can see that the price of Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer at £648.99 is great value considering the average price of Tacx Turbo Trainers is £170.98 and the price varies from £6.99.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £648.99 which represents a £51.00 or 7% saving against RRP. If you think Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.
Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer Reviews
Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Turbo Trainers too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 2 reviews scoring it 5.0 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Tacx. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Turbo Trainers category is 4.4 and the average score of products from Tacx is 4.2 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Tacx in the Turbo Trainers category the average review score is 4.3.
That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer such a high overall score of 8.7 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.
So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 2 reviews for Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer which score it 5.0, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.
If you do go on to buy Tacx Flux 2 Direct Drive Smart Trainer or in fact any of the other Turbo Trainers, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.
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