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RAD Cycle Products MAX RIDER PRO Italian Bike Trainer with Remote Shifter For Professional Work Out Indoors!
RAD Cycle Products MAX RIDER PRO Italian Bike Trainer with Remote Shifter – Features

State of the art technology: As soon as you begin to pedal, the ultra QUIET internal magnet creates resistance. You can easily increase the resistance by shifting the gears on your bike!
Extremely Portable: The MAG Trainer is extremely light and it can be folded down like an ironing board for travel and storage
Maximum Stability, one of the most robust and sturdy stands on the market. Extra wide legs and a sturdy frame makes this the trainer the pros choose
Extra Durable, features the finest materials and proven reliability. We stand behind every product we sell and back it up with a 100% satisfaction guarantee

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RAD Cycle Products MAX RIDER PRO Italian Bike Trainer with Remote Shifter – Reviews

All in all you get what you paid for. The trainer is rather simple to set up, but the instructions are tiny and they skipped a step with how to loosen the wing nut without cracking the surrounding plastic. I specifically bought this model to use with my decommissioned road bike, that was limited in gears and does not have a quick release back tire. The trainer’s resistance shifter is not fluid and hard hard to change. Even so, you can barely tell the difference between the lowest and highest gear. The shifter has a really long cable, that doesn’t come with any straps to help keep the loose slack from getting in your way. I took at look at what it would entail to use the quick release skewer instead of my current fixed one, and decided that it was not worth the hassle. It worked well enough as is, but due to the lack of significant resistance options, I ended up switching over to my hybrid bicycle, with several gears and a quick release skewer. When pedaling, I thought the transition from one side to the other would be a lot smoother and more akin to riding a bicycle on a smooth flat surface. But the transition is choppier, more like an exercise bike, where you alternate leaning more on one side than the other, contributing to the overall wobble of the entire bike unit. The slight wobble is there despite having the bike set up on carpet and placing a wooden board with a towel on top, under the front wheel. I feel like this is different than riding on the road, where the entire bike can move side to side with your shifting body weight as a single unit. Since the back wheel is clamped in with the trainer, I have concerns about the sideways forces adding isolated strain to various calibrated parts of the bike that shouldn’t get this much pressure, which will eventually result in noticeable premature wear and tear. It would have been nice to include a front wheel block to help keep the front wheel straight and elevate it, so you don’t feel like you are leaning forward and going down hill the whole time. Lastly, there is considerably more noise than I was expecting when pedaling hard on high resistance. You can mitigate this some, by adjusting how hard you clamp down the trainer to your back wheel, but that does limit the upper range of your work out. I personally prefer the ladder / step resistance work outs where you spend at least a minute or two at 90-100% effort levels.

Wendy

The handle broke the first time we tried to tighten it. You also have to have a special kind of axel on your bike, which it doesn’t mention when you look at the product. It has to be a quick release type. The booklet eludes that there is a front brace for your tire, but there wasn’t one included. I sent mine back, disappointed.

swimfast

this was a pain in the u know what the cable was alot harder to fit on the handle bars and just didnt feel right when the bike was on there

bouncedoc

Llevo alrededor de una mes usando cada dos dias el entrenador, y funciona bien, el rodillo esta Ok, se arma y desarme facil

J. P. Schmelzer


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