‘Building’ the entire thing only takes a second. The inRide sensor is already attached to the back of the trainer, and the magnet already placed inside the roller itself. Inside you’ll find the trainer frame, the flywheel/roller unit (detached), a few screws and press-on-screw/knob, a trainer skewer, and the manual.
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Note on the box you’ve now got the ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart glory listed: While I have an older Kinetic trainer myself from yesteryear, here’s a look at what the latest bundle for the Road Machine looks like: Those take the Road Machine and Rock & Roll trainers/frames and plop an inRide pod on it and call it a bundle. Specifically, the Road Machine Smart 2, and Rock & Roll Smart 2 trainers. In addition to the updated Kinetic inRide pod, they also updated their fluid based trainer bundles, which include the inRide sensor built in. What’s in the box – Road Machine Smart 2: The pod itself has simple double-sided tape on the back of it, so it sticks to the trainer as you’ll see in the next sections. Oh, and here’s the all-important product safety guide:Īnd that’s all there is in the box. The battery should last about a year or so, and then it’s just a simple replacement with another coin cell battery. Then we’ve got the battery and magnet/holder. Here’s the pod itself, which from the outside is identical to the existing pod, except now green instead of black. Inside you’ll find the pod, CR2032 battery, magnet/magnet plug, an installation guide, and some product safety stuff. Once we shake all the parts out of the box, here’s what’s left over: Of course, it’s far more than these, but these are the bigger ones out there. You’ll see that it proudly displays the ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart logos on the front, while doubling down on that on the back with more text related to it and a bunch of apps that are compatible listed. What’s in the box – inRide V3:įirst up on the unboxing docket is the updated inRide unit itself. Though, that resistance unit can replace the flywheel on an existing trainer frame, reducing your costs somewhat. They are very different from their ‘Smart Control’ trainers, which use an entirely different resistance unit. These are essentially just their Road Machine and Rock and Roll Trainers that ship with an inRide sensor already slapped on. Now, in addition to the updated Kinetic inRide sensor, they’ve updated their ‘Smart’ trainer lineup. Oh, and it’s still compatible with a decade or so’s worth of trainers. Atop that, they sliced the price considerably from when it first launched. The new V3 sensor not only supports ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, but it does it four different ways. But that meant that over time the inRide sensor got more and more isolated as the rest of the world moved to standards. Instead, they cooked their own (which wasn’t actually a huge deal 6 years ago when there were no power standards). Second, it didn’t actually support the Bluetooth Smart power standards. First, it never supported ANT+, so you couldn’t connect it to your Garmin or numerous other devices or apps that used ANT+ (even an older computer). It bought power to probably a decade’s worth of older trainers that weren’t equipped for the world of TrainerRoad, and years later, Zwift. In other words, it was a big deal.Īnd to that end the original inRide sensor was solid. That calibration often meant the difference of 20-40w in accuracy between the inRide method and just a generic power curve that trainer apps often utilize. But far more importantly, it allowed you to calibrate the sensor on your trainer, accounting for differences in how tight you twisted the roller wheel or your tire pressure. The inRide sensor allowed you to take virtually any existing Kinetic fluid trainer (which is pretty much all of them) and get proper power broadcasting from it, so that apps could consume that data. It’s been just shy of 6 years since the original Kinetic inRide sensor was announced (Fall 2012), and today they’ve updated it with the guts it always wanted.
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