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Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £299.99 on Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.2/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 128 products in the Turbo Trainers category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

9.6

Price

8.7

Reviews

9.4

Overall

9.2

 

Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer reviews

See customer reviews at Chain Reaction Cycles:

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Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer Specification

Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer specs

Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer
Feature 1

Software: PC/laptop Tacx Cycling app

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 3

Feature 2

Resistance unit:  Electric motor

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Realistic slope:  15%

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Max brake power (10 sec.): 1400 Watt

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

Sprint power (1 min.): 750 Watt

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

Mass inertia:  60kg *

Other Turbo Trainers found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Black – Blue

Other Turbo Trainers found with this spec: 3

Price

£299.99

Number of Reviews

60

Review Score

3.8 / 5

Average score in category: 4.4

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  • (Bushido Wireless). The Bushido Smart Trainer is one of the toughest and most innovative smart trainers available. For those aiming to improve or test their power, the Bushido will soak-up your punishment and turn it into serious performance gains. This is because its powerful and dynamic resistance unit can handle up to 1400 watts, making it the ideal partner for those aiming to perfect their sprints and surge technique. Simulates 15% Inclines. Developing that power also needs time on those super-steep climbs, which is why the Bushido is capable of simulating 15% inclines for those huge, rewarding burns. Not only will your power improve but your experience with Zwift, TrainerRoad, or other smart turbo trainer compatible software will be more immersive, fun, and realistic ANT+ and Bluetooth¬Æ Smart Compatible. Like other smart trainers, the Bushido connects to your device using ANT+ and Bluetooth¬Æ Smart technology to provide a complete range of effective data. But that‚Äôs not where this unit‚Äôs innovation ends. Unlike many other trainers, the Bushido requires no power supply, intelligently using the energy from your pedal stroke as its power source. Wireless Trainer with Quick Set-Up. The Bushido is exceptionally user-friendly, tidy, and convenient, allowing for a completely wireless and quick set-up. Meanwhile, its dynamic inertia system takes its level of tech beyond the reach of its competitors. This system allows the Bushido to control mass inertia, providing exceptional ride feel as it compensates for weight, speed, angle of inclination, and much more Features: Software:¬†PC/laptop Tacx Cycling app Resistance unit:¬†¬†Electric motor Realistic slope:¬†¬†15%¬† Max brake power (10 sec ):¬†1400 Watt Sprint power (1 min ):¬†750 Watt Mass inertia:¬†¬†60kg¬†**¬†Flywheel effect: the higher the value, the more realistic the cycling experienceTechnologies: Dynamic Inertia: The Bushido‚Äôs advanced resistance provides an incredibly realistic cycling experience, incorporating an enormous range of data into its simulation. The complete cycling experience is factored into its calculations, including air and rolling resistance, gradient percentage, weight, air pressure, wind speed, temperature, altitude, inertia, and brake properties, each analysed hundreds of times per second for unmatched realism when using Zwift, TrainerRoad or other online software. It also means those climbs are truly brutal, and truly rewarding. LED Feedback:¬†¬†The Bushido comes equipped with LED lights that provide instant feedback on your cadence. As your output increases, the unit‚Äôs LED display glows red, showing your increase in power, then green as you ease off on the decline. Pedal power balance: Highly accurate electronic sensors continuously measure the difference in the force exerted between the left and right leg, helping you develop an optimal pedal stroke and vastly improving your efficiency and technique. Tacx Cycling App:¬†¬†The Bushido smart trainer gives you bonus access to the Tacx Cycling app for tablets and smartphones, which are quick and easy to use. With the Tacx Cycling app for tablets you can ride classic cycling races and legendary stages. You can also create your own training programmes and train heart rate, slope or power output, or use the pre-set fitness level tests. All your performance data is measured, displayed, and stored so you can analyse them at a later stage using ‚Äòdynamic‚Äô graphs and other enhanced data tools. Tacx Trainer Selector: Choose your ideal trainer. Features Bushido Tacx Cycling App Yes PC Compatible from the box PC Software Purchase Required Tacx Trainer software 4¬† Upgradeable Purchase Remote control Via App Flywheel 2kg Resistance unit Electro Max Incline 15% Max Descent N/A Max. braking power (10 sec.) 1400 Watt Sprint braking power (1 min.) 750 Watt Mains power None/Wireless Connection ANT+/Bluetooth Manufacturer Code T2780 Including Skyliner Buy¬†¬†Tacx Training¬†¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 8714895045290
  • T2780

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Turbo Trainers.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 128 different products in the Turbo Trainers category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 38 products from Tacx (although only 23 of the 38 are in the Turbo Trainers category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Turbo Trainers. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Tacx. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Turbo Trainers. There are 128 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 128, the average price is £205.07. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £4.49 and most expensive was £2008.94.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Tacx. The average price was £116.26 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £2.99 up to £1099.99 with Tacx products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Tacx products that appear specifically in the Turbo Trainers category. So you can see that the price of Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer at £299.99 is great value considering the average price of Tacx Turbo Trainers is £170.98 and the price varies from £6.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £299.99 which represents a £249.01 or 45% saving against RRP. If you think Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Turbo Trainers too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 60 reviews scoring it 3.8 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Tacx. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Turbo Trainers category is 4.4 and the average score of products from Tacx is 4.2 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Tacx in the Turbo Trainers category the average review score is 4.3.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer such a high overall score of 9.2 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 60 reviews for Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer which score it 3.8, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer or in fact any of the other Turbo Trainers, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.