For its own version of the smart bike tacx has essentially taken one of its neo trainers and built a bike on top of it.
Tacx neo smart bike vs wattbike atom.
This is the only bike that isn t a first generation model.
So it s to be expected that many things are improved from its predecessor.
The tacx neo has been our benchmark smart trainer since it was launched in 2015 topping t3 s round up of the best turbo trainers last year.
And the drop in price doesn t cut the quality of the bike.
Wattbike s competitors like tacx and bkool have smart bikes on the way so the atom will soon face stiff competition but until then there is a lot to be said for its originality if you are.
Whereas wahoo is just a generalized 2020 for anything beyond the us.
Wattbike does ship the atom into south africa and australia however.
And again within the us distribution is incredibly limited until 2020.
Tacx neo smart bike 2 599.
And tacx says that they ll be rolling out other countries pretty quickly with the tacx neo bike.
Wattbike is one of the leaders in exercise bikes supplying federations and gyms.
Now the dutch firm has launched the neo 2 to rubber.
Promising the earth the atom is the most intuitive intelligent and accurate indoor trainer on earth asserts the back cover blurb for wattbike s newest creation.
Over the past three winters i ve tested a couple dozen smart trainers and this winter i tested four smart bikes.
Read our review of the wattbike atom.
The wattbike atom the stagesbike the tacx neo bike and the wahoo kickr bike.