The Alpine tacx is a $ 1,100 gradient simulator for your Garmin Smart Bike coach

The cycling season may have just started, but that does not prevent Garmin from looking forward when all the roadies have to take their bikes inside. On Tuesday, the company announced the TACX Alpine, an inner gradient simulator for its family of Smart Neo coaches. The accessory can reproduce slopes of up to 25% and a decrease of up to -10%, with adjustments made manually via an integrated configuration panel or automatically when using the device with compatible applications like ZWIFT and the own Garmin TACX training software.

In these same applications, the Alpine TACX also allows virtual steering adjustments in real time. Naturally, the Garmin Connect support is also included for monitoring statistics and more. In short, the TACX Alpine is designed for those who want to spice up their training out of season, because the pedaling of a road bike on an internal coach is almost the most boring thing of all time.

Garmin says that the editing at the front of your bike is easy. Inside the box, you will find adapters for fast release skewers (9 x 100) and through the axles (12 x 100, 15 x 100 and 15 x 110), so that the Alpine TACX will operate with most modern road bikes. However, the compatibility of coaches is limited to Garmin neo 2T And 3M NEO models. Those who cost $ 1,400 and $ 2,000 respectively, and the accessory itself will cost you $ 1,100, Garmin not planning to offer bundles at launch.

This may seem much to pay for an accessory designed to make your interior journeys less monotonous, but it is largely comparable to the rest of the industry. Wahoo, for example, sells his Kickr climb simulator for $ 750But it does not come with a management function. In the meantime, the Elite ricewhich offers both the management and the gradient simulation costs $ 1,000. Whatever

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