|
|
|
|
Tacx Fortius Multiplayer
|
|
Show more by Tacx
|
|
Average Rating:  (1 Reviews)
|
|
List Price: $1,879.00
|
|
Our Price: $1,249.99
|
|
You Save: $629.01 (33%)
|
|
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
|
|
From our affiliated sellers:
|
|
5 New from $1,249.99
|
|
|
- Comes with the trainer base, steering kit, handlebar remote and software
- Resistance unit: electromagnetic brake "Soft Gel"
- Maximum wattage: 1500 watts
- Features: cadence, heart rate, wattage, distance, steering unit, speed, personnel user and opponent
- TTS v.3.0 software
|
|
|
Product Description:
|
|
|
Tacx Fortius Multiplayer Virtual Reality Trainer allows for direct competition over web with a one year license included.- Includes Tacx Trainer Software (TTS) Version 3.0
- Features a powerful wired motor brake with downhill drive using the innovative Powerback system
- Durable Soft Gel roller with a stainless cover reduces noise and extends roller life
- Includes Tacx Trainer Software 3.0 and a 1 year license for web racing
- Recommended system resources Processor: Minimum Pentium IV (3.0 GHz) NOT compatible with Apple
- Front wheel steering frame included
- 1024 MB for XP, 2048 MB for Vista and Windows 7
- At least 1 GB of free space on Hard Drive
- Video Card Requirement: DirectX 9-compatible 3D-cards with a minimum of 256 MB (512MB recommended) non-shared memory (GeForce FX or equivalent); currently only ATI or NVIDIA cards feature this capacity
- Non-recommended video cards include: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3500 or X3100, any of the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset, Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset, Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset, or Q35 Express Chipset Families. Additionally, any Graphics cards that use shared memory are also not recommended.
- Sound card must be DirectSound Compatible
- 1 free USB port preferably a USB2 port
- Must support the playing of a DVD
- TTS3 program tracks heart rate, watts (power), speed and cadence (pedaling frequency)
- Heart Rate strap not included - Compatible with non-coded HR straps, such as CY7254 or CY0230
- Not compatible with ANT+ or any other coded HR strap, including the Bushido ANT+ strap
- Includes 1 year web racing license
- Not compatabile with 64 Bit Vista systems
| Item Specifications |
|---|
| Resistance | Magnetic |
|
|
|
|
Customers' Reviews:
Add Your Own Review |
|
Stay away from Tacx, January 14, 2011
By MyRecords (Rochester, NY United States)
|
|
Anyone interested in a Tacx Trainer should surf on over to tacx fot com, click on service, and enter the forum. Take a look at the section called "Tacx Trainer Software ("TTS") 3 sofware support", and count, if you can, the number of problems with Tacx Trainer Software. You will not be able count the entire number of problems. These are not small problems either. These are problems that render your brand new multi-thousand dollar Fortius trainer useless. Whats worse is that when Tacx gets around to trying to patch the problem, the patch makes it worse. Again, go to the forum and look what happened when Tacx went from version 3.01 to version 3.1. Chaos and crashes.
Now buggy software is something we are all used to, but imagine you are 30, 40, or 80 minutes into a 2 hour training ride, and all of the sudden the Tacx craps out on you. You lose your training data, and your computer crashes, causing you to prematurely stop your workout. Of course this presumes that you are lucky enough to actually get the software running -- because that in itself can be miraculous depending on what version of TTS you are running.
O.K. you say, they will work out, and this trainer will be smokin hot. Not so fast. This is Tacx Trainer Version 3.0. After you have poked around the forum looking at TTS 3.0, then go have a look at the Tacx Trainer Software 2.0 - 1.0 forum. Tacx trainer software 2.0 was so bad, that they gave up on it, and released TTS 3.0. But here is the kicker -- they charged the owners of 2.0 $65.00 to "upgrade" to 3.0. This was on top of the $40.00 charge they charged to upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0. The problems with 2.0 lasted for at least two years before they finally gave up on it. There is no reason to think that once Tacx relizes that 3.0 is unfixable, they will charge you another 40, 50, 60, hundred bucks to "upgrade" to TTS 4.0.
I have had my Tacx trainer since 2003. It has very little mileage on it because the software makes it largely inoperable. I paid $130 for tacx trainer software version 1, another 40 for 2.0 and another 60 for 3.0 -- thats $230.00 on top of the cost of the trainer for software that simply does not work. Tacx is located in the netherlands, and you can not contact them directly. Sadly, while the Tacx USA representatives are exteremly nice (i suspect they deal with a lot of disgruntaled Tacx customers) there is no getting contact from Tacx Nederlands. So the frustration of having spent a ton of money on something that if it worked - would be so awesome -- only compounds.
I was patient with Tacx for 7 years. I purchased all of their downgrades, i purchased ten of their videos, i am out about $2500 for a trainer that i can not rely on to work. I am out countless hours -- and I mean at least a weeks worth of time in real hours, in trying to get Tacx software to work. I've even gone as far as buying a single computer dedicated solely to running tacx software. I've had to do ennumerable operating system reloads, tacx software reloads, driver updating software updating, etc. I am not a computer expert, but i have had to learn a heck of a lot of computerese just to try to get this stuff to work.
Finally, tacx will tell you that it can't really be as bad as I say, and that thousands of tacx users have no problems whatsoever. I would suggest going to their forum, reading their comments, and making your own decision.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
Was this review helpful to you?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
View Cart
Bookmark This Page
Contact Us
