So it will be like a painful trip down memory lane but also good to make a comparison. I got the Etape because it goes up the MArie Blanque and Tourmalet the way I did when I completed the Raid Pyrenean.

I also have the Mallorca and 2010 Etape Du Tour RLV videos ready to run.

So does anyone have one and how have they found them The things I like about these are: - being able to watch a video of a real ride - resistance auto changing - realistic ride (especially on the fortius with the up spinning for the down hills.) i am thinking of getting the fortius atm as i could do some hill climing on it as i cant outside (just below norwich).īut if you go onto the Tacx forum here you will see that it was dogged with silly IT related problems.Īlthough to be fair these may all be sorted out now In a vain attempt at resolving my problems I even paid an IT guy to come and try and fix it, in turn he was in direct contact with the Tacx expert at Fishers (UK importer of Tacx) Hethey got it all up and running after much fettling, but then when I came to use it I was 14hr into a programme and it crashed again.Įnough was enough, so it was all returned for a full refund, except for the Flow trainer.īut oddly I know people that have them and have no problems at all. So I decided on getting a turbo for some indoor work The guy in the shop I went into said the fortius was every realistic in the ride as he said a cyclist he knew did one of the rides and was 3mins out of the time on the turbo.

Tacx fortius update