Review: Easy to set up and adjust, accurate too – and up £100… cycling wahoofitness
Wattbike's updated Atom is a much better indoor trainer than the first incarnation, and as such it's a genuine contender for your cash, coming in at less than its direct rivals. It's not without its issues but it feels much more like the finished article now. Wattbike's take on the Atom is, 'The best just got better'; it wasn't the best before, and it still isn't now, but it certainly did get better.
With the Atom, you'll need your app to have implemented some kind of display for the Atom. Zwift does, but at time of writing the Atom will only work in ERG mode with TrainerRoad and The Sufferfest, so you'll be able to follow a workout but there's no resistance mode or gear display.
It's still good though. On the previous bike I'd forget which button made it harder, and which easier, and by the time you'd noticed you might have clicked through three or four gears. That doesn't happen any more. Well, the bit where I forget which button is which still does. But not the other bit.If the resistance unit has changed, the rest of the bike hasn't.
The Wattbike is optimised for use with an iPad, with a mount built in to the tribars that the bike comes supplied with. That extra one per cent of accuracy probably isn't going to make any difference to you unless you're many rungs further up the competitive cycling ladder than me: what I look for is numbers that are believable and, most importantly, repeatable. So let's have a look at some lovely graphs, shall we?
There's a tendency for the Wattbike to spike at the start of an interval, ramping up the resistance too far and then having to back off. This has been an issue with all of the smart bikes I've tested recently, and the Atom is no worse in this regard than the KICKR, which costs over a grand more. Even so, I'd like to see the algorithm tweaked to make the ramp a bit less aggressive.
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