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Home > Tacx i-Magic Fortius Virtual Reality Gel Trainer
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Tacx i-Magic Fortius Virtual Reality Gel Trainer
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- Collapsible CycleForce frame
- Steering frame available as an option
- Revolutionary high power motor brake
- Soft gel rollers with stainless steel running surf
- User friendly USB interface
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Product Description:
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Tacx i-Magic Fortius Virtual Reality System accurately simulates all riding conditions and works with real life videos (sold separately) that simulate famous courses around the world. Features new software options that offers choice of rider gender, clothing, teams, and bikes. Features: Accurately simulates all riding conditions including downhill Works with real life videos, sold separately, that simulate famous courses around the world New software options offers choice of rider gender, clothing, teams, and bikes Three totally new terrains are included with the trainer Sophisticated training tools including Analysis software Soft Gel roller with a stainless cover reduces noise and is durable Steering frame available seperate WT2022
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Customer Reviews:
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 Buyer beware - but in a GOOD way, February 19, 2010
By A. Larsen (Blacksburg, VA)
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I'll let other reviews speak to the coolness of this product - my review here is about a potential issue with Amazon's listing that will allow you to get this for the best possible price.
Let me explain. Tacx Fortius comes in two models: Fortius Multiplayer and plain Fortius. The Multiplayer is the full package: stand and VR steering frame, while the Fortius is the bike stand only. Given this unit is not specifically listed as Multiplayer, and that it is a much lower price than a unit advertised elsewhere on Amazon as Fortius Multiplayer, I assumed this was the more basic unit. So I ordered this along with the separate steering frame, thinking how smart I was to still be getting a much better price than the Fortius Multiplayer. Amazon even shows the message "Customers often purchase this unit with the steering frame"
Guess what? When the package arrived today it was the Fortius Multiplayer - the full package including steering frame. I now need to return the separate steering frame I had ordered.
Bottom line: check with the seller first before ordering this item - you may or may not need the steering frame. Either way, it is a tremendous savings over the Fortius Multiplayer advertised elsewhere on Amazon.
8 of 8 people found the above review helpful.
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 Worst trainer ever, December 24, 2010
By Tacx sucks
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Do not waste your money on this trainer get the computrainer instead the real world videos do not work with the new software that you get with the trainer, if you change computers you cannot reload the software because the activation code is only good for one time, and every time i try to e-mail customer service the email dosent send do to a problem with the tacx web site.
4 of 4 people found the above review helpful.
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 Realistic Riding Sensations, January 19, 2010
By L. Read
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I've had this trainer for a month now. As a comparison, I have also had a Tacx I-Magic and a Computrainer. Of the 3, the Fortius is the most realistic - closest to riding outside. I think this is due to the "motor brake" which keeps a few seconds of momentum that the rider has generated. This allows you to rest a little more when riding downhill or in a draft. This, of course, reduces your workload, but it feels very real.
I use the trainer with mainly Netathlon to ride online against other riders, and it is a blast. I occasionally use the Fortius and the Tacx Trainer software, but I'll leave the review of those to others. NetAthlon 2.0 for Cycling
The con I have with this unit is that the first one I received had a bad power supply and the frame could be more robust (it's a little flexy).
4 of 4 people found the above review helpful.
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Why one Star? Because I can't give it zero, January 14, 2011
By MyRecords (Rochester, NY United States)
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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 software 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 realizes 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 extremely nice (i suspect they deal with a lot of disgruntled 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 enumerable 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.
3 of 3 people found the above review helpful.
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Very bad software, June 21, 2011
By Stuart Kinnear (Beaumaris, Victoria Australia)
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I have had the Fortius Trainer since January 2010 and am thoroughly disenchanted. The software version 2 is stuck in a time-warp on 32 bit Windows and crashes regularly. I paid the 44 Euros for an upgrade to version 3 and have another lemon >>> it states it cannot upgrade as version 2.xx is not installed ! I do not at all recommend anyone purchasing this product. Like others have said - go to the forums and check for yourself - many bad moments, these guys have no idea on how to write good software.
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