The EDCO free hub has a small blue condom over it, albeit non-Magnum trainer branded. Sometime this winter I’ll put together both my Elite and Tacx behind the scenes factory tours which talk about manufacturing, and you’ll see how the NEO is built and the complexity of that design. It costs less in components, as well as labor to build. The main reason they used this design over the articulating (and Star Wars like) Tacx NEO leg design is that this simply costs less. The unit basically comes in two major pieces: The main trainer portion, and then the front stabilizing leg. As you can see, it’s all pretty straight forward. We’ll get rid of that though and put everything in front of the box. Opening up the top we’ve got a foam protector layer, with a few parts rising above. That left us with the normal Tacx Flux box: Super cool in a geeky packaging kinda way. I suspect your average retailer won’t have that packaging on it, but I was kinda impressed that once I cut the blue straps, the sides fell right off like shattering a glass egg. First up is the outer packaging it arrived in. Let’s crack open the box and get this party started. You can use the links at the bottom of the post to help support the site. Once I’m done here I’ll ship it back to them up in the Netherlands, like normal. Oh, and finally – Tacx sent over that loaner Flux unit to try out. But I’ve had a final production unit for a few weeks though now, so I figure it’s time to roll out the in-depth review. Of course, the unit saw a few delays, which has led to it just started shipping here over the past few days. The question is – was Tacx able to do that? I set out to find out. Beyond that, it was hoped that accuracy would increase to +/- 2-3% (on-par with high-end trainers). Of course, the downside was that the stated/planned accuracy would be slightly less (at +/-5%) than higher end trainers– at least for the first 10 minutes during the warm-up period. And the icing on the cake? It’d be $300-$400 less than the Wahoo KICKR and similar trainers like the CycleOps Hammer and Elite Drivo. You’ll remember that the main appeal of the Tacx Flux was that not only was it a direct drive trainer (wheel-off), but it would also be resistance controllable, fully compatible with apps like Zwift and TrainerRoad. It’s been just over three months since Tacx announced what was shaping up to be the hottest trainer of the 2016-2017 winter season.
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