Comments on: ProForm Tour de France indoor training bike mirrors real route http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Tue, 21 May 2013 23:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: J D http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-64887 J D Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:09:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-64887 feb 2013, just got bike, console lights up and none of the buttons work. Called CS and not much conversation but we will send you a new console, seems like not a surprise to them. they tagged the warranty on the date I paid for it but it took a month to get here. I'm hoping if any issues that won't be a problem. Anyone else with recent issues in this new batch they received 2013? feb 2013, just got bike, console lights up and none of the buttons work. Called CS and not much conversation but we will send you a new console, seems like not a surprise to them. they tagged the warranty on the date I paid for it but it took a month to get here. I’m hoping if any issues that won’t be a problem. Anyone else with recent issues in this new batch they received 2013?

]]> By: Dano100 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-62810 Dano100 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-62810 I purchased one that had a hundred miles on it. We used it about 6 times then it started locking up about 4 minutes into the ride, every time! Called support. They said since the bike had changed owners the warranty is not longer in effect and a new board would run $500. What a rip off. Has anyone contacted consumer affiars? I purchased one that had a hundred miles on it. We used it about 6 times then it started locking up about 4 minutes into the ride, every time! Called support. They said since the bike had changed owners the warranty is not longer in effect and a new board would run $500. What a rip off. Has anyone contacted consumer affiars?

]]> By: Dave http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-56805 Dave Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:48:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-56805 I heard that the company had issues with the first version.However, I received my TDF Bike a two months ago and I love it! It makes training for my races easy! Rain or shine, no traffic, and I can monitor all my stats. I give this product four stars! I love everything about it. I heard that the company had issues with the first version.However, I received my TDF Bike a two months ago and I love it! It makes training for my races easy! Rain or shine, no traffic, and I can monitor all my stats. I give this product four stars! I love everything about it.

]]> By: F72 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-54714 F72 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-54714 Update?? Update??

]]> By: F72 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-54713 F72 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:54:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-54713 Update?? Update??

]]> By: Ras32758 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-54667 Ras32758 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:06:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-54667 I didn't realize the rides were limited to 26 miles. I plotted a trip I did upto wintergren and back that would have 45 or so and it stopped at 26. Thought I did something wrong. I didn’t realize the rides were limited to 26 miles. I plotted a trip I did upto wintergren and back that would have 45 or so and it stopped at 26. Thought I did something wrong.

]]> By: Ras32758 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-54666 Ras32758 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:01:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-54666 March 26, 2012. I had a proform TDF for three months got to ride it for about one month and it is in a box on the porch waiting to go back. I went through three consoles, a handlebar assembly and all new wiring harnesses and a resistance motor (controls the magnet resistance unit) and they could not get it to stop shifting on its own after as little as 30 minutes of hard riding. The seat assembly which they changed on the gen 2, was a huffy style seat assembly which I could not adjust up and down to an acceptable position (too high or too low). The I fit site does not allow one to track the data from the ride except in gross numbers and nothing to show the relation of power, hr, rpm, speed, etc (at least not that I could find) and I only got three months free and then they wanted $99 for a year thereafter. Oh I did like the fact that the bike responded to the hills and that you could use the gears to spin up a hill or grind it out. My bike had a loose main bushing on which the bike pivoted up and down which caused a very annoying clunking that I was able to invoke in hard efforts while seated and always while standing. They had no answer for that one. Sweat management on the bike is suspect. It would still be dripping out the bottom well after I was done. I don't want to think about what the insside would look like. To their credit the main control board is below a plastic cover but I am not certain about the rest of the innards. The bike is very quiet making only the noise of the rider. The algorithm for determing the resistance to apply going down hill is too slow to respond and then when it does it really kicks in. Hit a 10 % down grade and get it in tenth and hit it. The speed approaches 40 MPH, RPMs go over 100 and the computer says there ought to be more wind resistance about know, Wham you feel like you just hit a wall and everything slows, The computer says hey at this spped there should be less resistance what was I thinking. Now you are free wheeling getting back to high gear and ready to do it all over again. If one raps up the RPM slowly you can get in a groove and maintain a steady down hill pace with out whip sawing back and forth but it takes some patietce to get it to settle in. I doubt that any pro racer is using this to train with. It just isn't there. They are givng me my money back and I am expecting the shipping a indoor delivery fee  paid. They sent the box and are paying for the return postage. That is about all that went well. Roy March 26, 2012.
I had a proform TDF for three months got to ride it for about one month and it is in a box on the porch waiting to go back. I went through three consoles, a handlebar assembly and all new wiring harnesses and a resistance motor (controls the magnet resistance unit) and they could not get it to stop shifting on its own after as little as 30 minutes of hard riding.
The seat assembly which they changed on the gen 2, was a huffy style seat assembly which I could not adjust up and down to an acceptable position (too high or too low).
The I fit site does not allow one to track the data from the ride except in gross numbers and nothing to show the relation of power, hr, rpm, speed, etc (at least not that I could find) and I only got three months free and then they wanted $99 for a year thereafter.

Oh I did like the fact that the bike responded to the hills and that you could use the gears to spin up a hill or grind it out.

My bike had a loose main bushing on which the bike pivoted up and down which caused a very annoying clunking that I was able to invoke in hard efforts while seated and always while standing. They had no answer for that one. Sweat management on the bike is suspect. It would still be dripping out the bottom well after I was done. I don’t want to think about what the insside would look like. To their credit the main control board is below a plastic cover but I am not certain about the rest of the innards.

The bike is very quiet making only the noise of the rider.

The algorithm for determing the resistance to apply going down hill is too slow to respond and then when it does it really kicks in.
Hit a 10 % down grade and get it in tenth and hit it. The speed approaches 40 MPH, RPMs go over 100 and the computer says there ought to be more wind resistance about know, Wham you feel like you just hit a wall and everything slows, The computer says hey at this spped there should be less resistance what was I thinking. Now you are free wheeling getting back to high gear and ready to do it all over again. If one raps up the RPM slowly you can get in a groove and maintain a steady down hill pace with out whip sawing back and forth but it takes some patietce to get it to settle in.

I doubt that any pro racer is using this to train with. It just isn’t there.

They are givng me my money back and I am expecting the shipping a indoor delivery fee  paid. They sent the box and are paying for the return postage. That is about all that went well.

Roy

]]> By: leo http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-53440 leo Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-53440 anybody else have issue with tracking in google map console? I'm doing the preloaded Pasage du gois, and I notice my tracking dot jumps back and forth along the route line.  anybody else have issue with tracking in google map console? I’m doing the preloaded Pasage du gois, and I notice my tracking dot jumps back and forth along the route line. 

]]> By: Digivelo http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-53280 Digivelo Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-53280 Did you ever get your console ? After over 20 rides, mine is now locked up... I am going to try it again tomorrow and then hope for the best with customer service, which is now closed as it is late in the evening.. Did you ever get your console ? After over 20 rides, mine is now locked up… I am going to try it again tomorrow and then hope for the best with customer service, which is now closed as it is late in the evening..

]]> By: Middrocks http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/07/21/proform-tour-de-france-indoor-training-bike-mirrors-real-route/#comment-51706 Middrocks Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=119457#comment-51706 not impressed at all.  took way too long to deliver, assembly was incorrect (they mixed up R & L wiring), and contact with TDF almost impossible...and no response to an email asking why a $1300 bike comes with pedal baskets, not clips (or worse case a combo), as advertised.  I actually like the ride/live experience of uphill/downhill, but think there are way too many movong parts (and exposed wiring/on+off switch to sweat/moisture), that this is going to be a bad ending.  hope i am wrong! not impressed at all.  took way too long to deliver, assembly was incorrect (they mixed up R & L wiring), and contact with TDF almost impossible…and no response to an email asking why a $1300 bike comes with pedal baskets, not clips (or worse case a combo), as advertised. 
I actually like the ride/live experience of uphill/downhill, but think there are way too many movong parts (and exposed wiring/on+off switch to sweat/moisture), that this is going to be a bad ending.  hope i am wrong!

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