Wahoo FitnessKICKR CORE 2 Smart Trainer(Return to Product Page)

I use my Kickr Core v2 trainer with Rouvy software. I've had the trainer just over a month and have ridden about 400 miles. I purchased it $150 off the normal $550 price. The Kickr and Rouvy work flawlessly together. I did replace the Cog & Click gear with a standard Shimano 105 12-spd 11-34 cassette. I'm old school and struggled a bit with the Click for changing gears. It worked fine with a slight, about :01, delay between hitting the button on the Click and experiencing the change is resistant on the flywheel. I just could not find the buttons quickly and fluidly enough to fully mimic my road riding experience. The Kickr with the normal cassette fully mimics my road experience. The Kickr was very easy to assemble, and setting up wifi for access to Wahoo was pretty straightforward. I did have to download the Wahoo App, eventhough I already had the Wahoo Elemnt App, which was a little frustrating. After setup, downloading the latest software, and linking to Rouvy, it was good to go. The Kickr is very quiet, even with a standard cassette. The flywheel is very smooth and coasting is also very quiet. Overall, a great product that works just as advertised.

Wanted a lightweight portable trainer that could switch between rim brake and disc brake bikes easily. The Kickr Core 2 fills that need.

The single cog is easy to use and enables multiple bikes to be used. The auto shifting works great with shift.

Price makes this an easy choice.

The Wahoo fitness Kickr Core V2 is the best smart trainer I've tried among the budget conscious range of smart trainers. The direct drive has a better feel and less worry about wearing out you rear tire than the wheel-on trainers. The Zwift direct drive further reduces wear and tear on a cassette and your rear derailleur. It does feel a little weird using the + and - controls for e-shifting but after I got used to it, it became much more intuitive. There is a seamless feel and it lets you maintain momentum which is especially useful if you are doing Zwift racing events because you can carry your power on the downhill sections to make up time. I'm happy to have an indoor cycling experience that does a pretty good job of replacing outdoor riding when the weather is bad or if I don't want to share the road with cars.

I got injured and needed a trainer for rehab and thought it would be a good idea to use it to ride later in the winter as well. It was fairly easy to assemble and connect the bike to it. There are adapaters in the kit and while the instructions weren't great (and the link to the video is so old school technology and size) it didn't take too long to figure out. One thing I missed is the fact that you can change the COG to fit your bike better so without it it made noise. The Zwift click attached was easy to connect and so were all the electronics.

All in all pretty good and while I ended up upgrading to the zwift frame since I felt having a bike on a trainer with all the sweat and forces is not really ideal and I was too lazy to reconnect it every time its easy to use and the zwift integration is really cool.

Bike tires direct offered the best deal on this wahoo trainer. They also offered some promotional discounts and it ended up being about 100 bucks less than everywhere else I saw online. Shipping was fast and effective with FedEx. The bike trainer itself is an incredible value for what it is. Very gradual resistance increases and seems very smooth. Works well with many different training software as well.

Zwift Bluetooth connected w/out a hitch. I like the virtual shifting although needed to work on getting just the right position on handlebars for 'shifters' to enable shifting w/out having to move hand position. Not really an issue unless racing.

Zwift Bluetooth connected w/out a hitch. I like the virtual shifting although needed to work on getting just the right position on handlebars for 'shifters' to enable shifting w/out having to move hand position. Not really an issue unless racing.

Set-up was incredibly easy. I pair it with Zwift and I'm very pleased with how easy it is to use the Zwift Hub.

Great trainer, but mine leans over to one side so much so that I had to put a piece of wood on the right side to raise it.

Annoying.

I love everything about this trainer - it's exactly what I was wanting and looking for.