Kinetic RS Power Bike Trainer,Green

This is a great value for the price. It’s very quiet and the resistance level is fine for me. You have to shift to change resistance for this product, which is what I would expect in this price range. The assembly instructions are not good and I couldn’t find anything better on the web that was specific for this product.. You have to buy a cassette that matches your bike. Installing the cassette was a learning process for me. You have to have a cassette ring lock tool. I would recommend ordering the cassette and locking tool with the trainer. Depending on the cassette size, you may need to use the included spacer ring when you install the cassette. If the cassette is still loose after hand tightening, you probably need the spacer. You can reset the remote sensor by placing a battery in backwards for 3 seconds. I needed to do this to get a connection. Don’t screw the sensor back in after installing the batteries. You will have to remove the sensor to reset it or change the batteries. If you screw it in, you’ll have to remove your bike from the trainer to get it back out.

I had issues with the bluetooth connection and tried to reach out to customer service which was very difficult and I never actually got through to them. I was able to email a employee of Kinetic's sister company (Kurt Manufacturing) and was advised that Kinetic has been sold to Magene (the RS Trainer is a rebranded Magene T100) and was advised that is has been a fairly common occurrence of poor customer service from them.To have this much difficulty in trying to get ahold of support just days after purchasing the trainer does not give me confidence in the long term support. Therefore, I returned it.If I didn't have connection issues, I would have kept this trainer. Its inexpensive and fills a unique spot in the market (between the wheel on trainers and the smart trainers that interact with training programs like Zwift). So if it works without issues, it seems like a great product.

Pros: A quiet direct drive trainer. It was straightforward to setup and compared to my old wheel on trainer, a vast improvement in the lives of other folks who live in my house.Cons: The power reading coming from the trainer is incredibly inaccurate despite following the calibration routines on more than one occasion. (Ride for 20 minutes, then do the calibration).Following this, doing a simultaneous comparison with my crank arm power meter showed the numbers from the trainer at approximately 30% lower. I use Zwift for winter training, so this is rather unfortunate. If you need a cheap, quiet trainer, this is fine for putting in some hours.As far as I can tell, the power calculation is based on the speed of the flywheel mechanism in the trainer and largely has nothing to do with the actual torque on the cassette. Ceasing to pedal and letting the flywheel spin down will continue to show power being outputted for several seconds. Putting in a hard effort will show the power slowly coming up over a similar amount of time. This would be fine if it was even within 10% or so after calibration. It is not.

Don't waste your money. I cannot get the Bluetooth to connect. I sent an email to the company support email address listed on the web page and in the manual. I have followed up with an additional email. It's been 2 weeks with no response from the company. At this time it's no better than a cheap trainer as all I can do is pedal and shift gears. Connecting it to another app will never work without the Bluetooth connectivity. I should have saved my money and purchased a better brand.

so many parts were missing. there were not even screws in the box for you to assemble it, let alone the spacers and skewers to attach the bike to.