Product Description
Pro-Form Tour de France 2012 Exercise Bike
| List Price: | $1,999.00 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #95770 in Sports & Outdoors
- Size: One Size
- Brand: ProForm
- Model: PFEX01312
- Released on: 2011-06-23
Features
- iFit Live Technology Built-In, with workouts Powered by Google Maps, including automatic incline, decline and resistance controls
- -20% to 20% Digital Incline and Decline Controls
- 3.5" Full Color Display; Keep track of your workout time, distance, pulse and calories burned with this easy-to-read display. iFit Live Workouts are displayed through Satellite View from Google Maps.
- Plug your iPod, or MP3 Player, into the Interplay Music Port for unbeatable sound quality.
- Intermix Acoustics Sound System; Enjoy your favorite media with this built-in sound system.
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The Official Training Bike of Le Tour de France
Get the experience of riding outside without leaving the comfort of your own home. You draw the route-anywhere in the world-and iFit Technology Powered by Google Maps automatically downloads the map to your console. What you see is exactly what you feel-every hill, every flat and every decline. This versatile Indoor Cycle delivers more options for a greater benchmark performance. With 24 Digital Gear Controls you can personalize any workout. Interactive Incline and Decline Controls allow your bike to follow the road. Intelligent Wind Resistance factors in your height and weight for a calculated drive. Train like a Pro with Le Tour de France Indoor Cycle.
Ride Anywhere in the World with Google Maps iFit Technology Built-In
With the iFit Technology Powered by Google Maps you can ride anywhere in the world! Choose from 24 pre-mapped courses or create your own. Ride over the Passage du Gois or climb the hills of Mont des Alouettes in France. Now you can experience these same trails and more on this Indoor Cycle. With iFit Technology you can ride where the Pro's do. The world is at your fingertips. Map any route and enjoy the ride! Google and Google Maps are registered trademarks of Google, Inc. Includes one year iFit membership for free.
Built-In Power Meter
The built-in power meter is an internal device that allows you to monitor your watts and RPM's directly on the console.
Eliminate the hassle of attaching a separate device to measure your watts and RPM's—the ProForm Tour de France Indoor Cycle comes equipped with a built-in power meter. The built-in power meter is an internal device that allows you to monitor your watts and RPM's on the console as you ride. The power meter allows you to tune-in to your ride and monitor your watts and RPM's for a better benchmark performance. Now you can make certain that you are challenging yourself while perfecting your ride. With the power meter you can get real-time feedback on how hard you are training.
It Does What the Street Does -20 - 20% Digital Incline and Decline Controls
Introducing incline and decline that matches the street! Now, you can experience any route around the world and Le Tour de France Indoor Cycle automatically adjusts the incline and decline to simulate the terrain! No matter the route, no matter the map, your bike moves to follow the road. So, you get a realistic workout-just as if you were outside-but without the traffic, potholes and weather. Now you can have the perfect day on your road bike every day of the year with Le Tour de France Indoor Cycle.
Handlebar Shifters
You can now conveniently alternate gears just like you would on your road bike with the new Handlebar Shifters! Right and left Handlebar Shifters simulate front and rear sprockets just like your road bike.
Designed to match that of your road bike—the left shifter adjusts resistance in the front sprockets while the right shifter adjusts resistance in the rear sprockets. With 24 different resistance levels you can adjust your ride by the slightest amount possible on an indoor cycle and develop more cardiovascular strength.
Intelligent Wind Resistance For a More Personalized Experience
Any indoor bike can give you resistance-but only Le Tour de France Indoor Cycle can give you Intelligent Wind Resistance. Intelligent Wind Resistance automatically adjusts the resistance of your bike based on your wind profile. Our smart technology calculates your height and weight to apply the natural resistance you would get out on the road. A climb in your basement is exactly like a climb outside.
What the pros are saying...
Chris McCormack
2010 Ironman World Champion
"The "Tour De France Trainer" is incredible because it has a very realistic road feel. In over 20 years of riding trainers, I've never ridden anything even close. My favorite features are the Google Maps application, and that the bike actually rotates up or down based on uphills and downhills. The "Tour De France Trainer" is by far the closest stationary bicycle to the road I've ever experienced! Five stars!"
Lewis Elliot
Former US National Team Cyclist
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
90 of 92 people found the following review helpful.
By Road rider
The customer support is terrible, my machine has been broken for 6 weeks, the support to fix it is non existent. They send the wrong parts, the reps don't have the right tools. Finally a mechanic showed up today, the parts sent by pro form were wrong so now I have to wait another 2 weeks for the parts to ship and arrive. I have had to replace the computer once already, I have hadthe bike less than 6 months and have been able to use it for less than 4. Not worth the investment. I m very frustrated by their lack of desire to support.
55 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
By YanksMarching
19 January, 2013 Update...
The bike itself is still solid BUT if you are considering this bike primarily for all the "great" iFit integrations (like the rest of us) be sure to check out iFit on Facebook/Twitter before you buy to see all the customer complaints launched since they upgraded their platform...hard to believe that they're even still in business at this point.
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Original 2012 Review...
Ordered the new ProForm TdF 2012 (Gen2) bike on Saturday morning from the beach via iPhone app. An additional $3.99 for next day Amazon Prime shipping and the bike delivered to my home via UPS at 10am Monday morning! Signature was required at delivery due to price. Large box, very sturdy packaging. Weighed in at approximately 160lbs so my UPS guy was happy to see I took the morning off of work to help him carry it up to my third floor walk-up.
Assembly was fairly straight forward. Attach stand/stabilizers, handlebars, console, bottle holder, seat post, seat, pedals...done. All hardware and corresponding hex key was included in box. Additional tools needed were a phillips head screwdriver and a ratchet for a bolt on the seat. Two people would greatly ease assembly but I was able to do alone. I'm 6'-2", 200lbs and once assembled the bike felt well put together and very sturdy. No initial concerns with overall build.
Powered bike on, iFit console went through booting process and bike through incline/decline test. All checked out. Easily connected to my home wifi network. Checked for firmware update and already had current version. Next I logged into my new iFit account. No problem there. Was able to download my next scheduled workout and was off and riding.
I'm still tweaking seat post, seat and handlebar positions trying to find a sweet spot but during the ride, again, bike felt very sturdy. The gear paddle shifters are a very nice feature but can be non-responsive at times, get stuck at times, and I do have some worry that they could fail/break easily. Incline/decline worked without issue and was a pretty neat feature.
The console itself, with tiny 3.5" iFit screen, stodgy buttons and the loaded software is underwhelming. The concept, with the maps integration, is a great idea but for the overall price and the current state of tablet/touch technology it feels like a swing and a miss. What will be key here is the iFit LIVE feature to project street view rides onto your iPad or Internet enabled TV. I'm currently using Satechi SCH-121 Cup Holder Mount to mount my iPad in the cup holder. Don't love the fit and miss my water bottle but it will do for now. When testing with the iPad 1, Safari constantly crashed during the ride. iPad 3 works much better with minimal crashing. When it works this is a pretty cool feature...I've biked stages in the Champs, Central Park, Chicago Lakefront, Monterrey Coast and the National Mall in DC already.
Another issue experienced is that every now and then my iFit login credentials are dropped from memory. Thanks to a tip from David in my comments, I've lowered the time and frustration to fix this but still a pain when you're ready to ride and have to wait! The bike really needs a firmware update.
In sum, like others have said...when it works as planned it is a great concept, a great bike thus far BUT for a 2nd generation and the money spent there should not be some of these issues/bugs. Online support and knowledgebase resources are pretty thin too.
UPDATED: 3 August, 2012
101 of 114 people found the following review helpful.
By Robert G Beach Jr
I purchased this bike for my wife for Christmas, along with the in home installation and 3 year service warranty - in total close to $2000. We received the bike 1 week later, and the installers had it setup in a few minutes. Wow! We were excited! I was happy to see the bike connect to my secured WiFi network (given the comments I'd read about this issue), and completed the firmware update. I then started the incline calibration. The bike moved to complete incline position, stopped, and then started moving to complete decline position. When it reached this position, there was a loud pop (like an electronic component exploding) and a large spark shot out the side of the unit. It has been in the full decline position since, and does not work. Customer support was responsive, and offered to send replacement parts (which currently are, and have been, out of stock). Given that we spent close to $2000 on this product, and the nature of the problem, we asked for a replacement bike. But, that's not ProForm's policy. Now we have to wait for the replacement parts and a service call to see if this bike actually works as advertised. Unfortunately, this will be well past the 30-day warranty. It's unfortunate that a company is comfortable putting their customers in this position. We'll see what happens.
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