Tour De France Bike

[g0dsend]

Has anyone have any experience with the ProForm Tour De France Training Bike? I have been looking at it and it really looks like a good machine.

My elliptical is basically a problem machine, the smell of burning rubber within the inside of it made me look for a new one.

Or does anyone have any experience with a good cardio machine? Any good Elliptical or Bikes. The Elliptical I have now is a Nordic and I'm going to stay away from that brand, I use the highest resistance and doesn't really offer a challenge for me anymore. Preferably something that offers excellent resistance for an advanced user?


Thanks alot!

[goinglong]

Have you ever thought about getting a road bike and a variable resistance trainer? You would be able to train indoors on the trainer and you would be able to ride outside when the weather is nice. You could spend less money on those compared to a cardio machine.

Just a thought.

[gixxerboy1]

garbage. Nordic track and pro form are all the same company.

What is your budget?

[Far from massive]

I used to race road bikes professionally a long time ago. Why the hell you would want a trainer that tilts up an down as if it were going up and down hill is totally beyond me.

If those building trainers thought they needed to market realistically (anotherwords to people who understood shit) they would be saying that due to a variable inertia system that operates indepenently of the resistance system they are able to provide realistic resistance to both rotation ( this would equate to the wind resistance or incline on a real bike) as well as a separate resistance to change of rate ( this would be the inertia part, which would relate to the acceleration of the mass of bike and rider) then by inputting all the data on the tour climbs and speeds etc you could actually have a realistic simulation of the variations of the course. Naturally you would need to have an adjustable dial with a scale of 1-10 where 1 would be a fatty and 10 would be the actual race conditions since not many of us could maintain for 10 minutes the wattage output that that the top riders put out hour after hour week after week.

[Razor]

I saw that on TV, looks cool on TV, but when you get it, might be a different story. Better to take a regular bike and put a spinner on the back wheel.