Gone are the days of a million wires and connectors to everything. Like most trainers these days, the Flux is pretty easy to use. While it’s still a huge pet peeve of mine that trainer companies don’t include cassettes on direct drive trainers (except Wahoo), at least otherwise the setup here is quick and painless. They’ll simply be inserted into the bottom of the leg, which then connects to the main body. Once that’s done, you’ll do the only assembly required on the Flux itself, which is these two bolts.
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The process is pretty straight forward, and there are plenty of interweb sites for how to install a cassette on a hub. You can kinda get away without the chain whip in a pinch (using a towel and your hand), but you might get some vibrations without getting it nice and snug. That includes both a cassette locking tool (and wrench), and a chain whip. The first step in the build is actually installing that cassette, which you’ll need the correct tools for. I’ve put these cassettes on all my inbound test trainers this and past winters, including: Tacx Neo, Tacx Flux, Elite Drivo, Elite Kura, Elite Real Turbo Muin, CycleOps Hammer, and whatever else I’m forgetting. Obviously if you have a 10-speed bike, then buy the 10-speed version (or other brands). My mainstay cassettes are these Shimano Ultegra 11-speed cassettes. You’ll also need to have gone out and bought a cassette for the unit, as the Flux doesn’t include one. But you’ve got a nifty quick-start guide to follow, should it be required after this post. With the trainer basically coming in two pieces, the initial setup portion is pretty straightforward. Of course, in order to use it you’ll need to spend about 5 minutes putting it together, so let’s move ahead to that. Here’s all the parts more carefully laid out on a table:
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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.
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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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