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Home Exercise Bike Integration

I wondered if anyone has exercise bike for less than £1000 for home that gives distance, power, etc. for use with the FR945 or other Garmin range eiether by ANT+ or Bluetooth LE?

0 mcalista over 5 years ago

Take a look at DCRainmaker's Smart Trainer recommendations https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/the-smart-trainer-recommendations-guide-winter-2019-2020.html specifically at the Budget and Mid Range categories.

0 thetrickstergib over 5 years ago

I'm using my old road bike on a Tacx Smart Flow - I think one of the cheapest smart trainers (It was < £200) and it works really well with my 945, providing power, cadence, speed etc via Ant+. I'm using it with Zwift and for me its great. Would a direct drive be better, yeah probably but its hard to fault the Flow for the price.

The only dedicated exercise bike that would work for that type of money is the WattBike Atom.

0 allygraham over 5 years ago

Thank you for the advice. I was actually looking for ideas and suggestions for an exercise bike that me and my partner could use without needing to deal with swapping bikes, thinking a folding exercise bike that can send data to the FR945, if such a product even exists, as I have been unable to find anything that does say it can talk to something other than an app. Maybe it does not exist.

0 thetrickstergib over 5 years ago in reply to allygraham

The only option I know is the WattBike - sorry :(

0 thetrickstergib over 5 years ago in reply to thetrickstergib

the other option would be to get a cheap spin bike and add vector pedals and speed / cadance sensors to it