Hey, everybody.
Today we're here to talk about the tax new to teach smart trainer.
We're going to learn everything you need to know.
So when you purchase
this, you are ready to go and get some miles in on the trainer.
I got Bobby here today to talk to us a little bit about this.
He is much more technical than I am.
You may remember him from The Edge 1040 video
and you're back to data to show us how to get everything set up for the new.
So I have a golf bike here and I want to get this on so I could ride
a day. What do I need to do and what does this process look like?
Awesome. Thanks, Brock.
So as as Brock said, this is the tax new to smart trainer.
This is a direct drive trainer, meaning you remove the rear wheel from your bike
and this this actually installs on the
well your bike installs on it with it in the place of your rear wheel.
We also have wheel on trainers or the kind of the classic trainer
that you might have seen where you leave the wheel on your bike
and the bike sits in the trainer and uses a wheel to drive a drum.
And we also sell rollers, which are a little more difficult.
But they you leave the wheels on the trainer and you balance and ride.
So today, though, we're going to focus on the direct drive trainers.
The big thing that I like about it is that it has a virtual flywheel,
meaning that the resistance can be adjusted.
You can see I can turn it here with my hand.
It can be adjusted from almost no resistance
to over 2000 lots of resistance.
Let me tell you, I won't be doing 2000.
You Meebo.
So let's let's talk about a few of the pieces here
just to make sure that we we understand
what we're talking about before we dove into how to put it together.
Absolutely.
So this is how the trainer will come out of the box.
So a few of the things that we're going to talk about here
are the end caps and the cassette body.
So Axle in Caps is what we call these.
These are what's going to adapt the trainer for your specific bike.
Okay, so this which one which in caps you need will be determined
by the frame that you're going to be putting on.
So you'll remove the rear wheel of your bicycle
and that frame is going to mount directly onto this trainer.
That's why it's called a direct drive.
The encapsulate come installed are for a standard road bicycle.
So those have a spacing between the dropouts, the rear
part of the frame that accepts the wheel of 130 millimeters.
Okay, so there are a few other spacings or configurations that or your bike
might have that will require you to switch these in caps out today.
Your bike is a gravel bike, so it's going to use a three axle.
But these these original and caps that come installed are for a quick.
Release and that's the ones with
that have like the little part that sticks out here.
And you'll know that because the hole is much smaller. Right.
Where exactly it's.
Going to be much larger here. Exactly.
So the quick release is made.
It has a five millimeter opening for this little quick release axle.
Okay.
So you'll know
if you have this on your bike, you'll have this lever and you'll have
a quick release that goes through and then has an end cap on the other side.
And they have these fun little cone springs as well.
So this is a 130 millimeter spacing.
Like I said, we also have an end cap for 135
millimeter spaced quick release frames.
Those will be bikes that have a quick release axle but also have disc brakes.
So they're going to have a little bit wider spacing.
The other possible configuration
that you'll see is called a thru axle.
So this actually goes through the rear
wheel and threads into the opposite side of your frame.
They're 12 millimeters in diameter
and pretty easy to tell the difference between the two.
So you'll have one of these two things.
If you have the three axle, that's going to require different end caps.
They have a 12 millimeter opening so that that can slide through.
And so today, your bike is a three axle bike
with a 142 millimeter rear spacing.
All of these in caps come in the box.
You need to buy any additional ones.
We also have if you had a mountain bike,
it possibly would have a 148 millimeter,
little bit wider spaced through axle.
That's also sometimes called boost spacing.
So we have an inch calf that comes in the box for that as well.
And the easiest way to tell which one is which is there's a little white
riding on it, right.
That says like 12 by 148.
So that'll be the 12 millimeter diameter by 148 millimeters long.
Exactly.
So they are all labeled and they all also have a label of either D.
S or Indi s d is drive side.
So it's the side of the trainer
where the parts that drive the train are go your cassette,
your chain, all of that ends then obviously is non drive side.
So it's the opposite side of the train.
There we go.
Okay.
And s non driver side D's drive, so that makes sense.
So just look for the parts and match it up to the axle type that you have.
That's it. Okay.
And then there are a few tools that you'll need to do this.
These don't come with the trainer,
but they're just some basic bike tools that are nice to have
may may already have them, but we'll just go over what these tools are.
One of them.
This is just a five millimeter Allen ranch or a five millimeter hex wrench
that'll be used for to remove or install the quick release and caps
it for installing and removing the through axle.
In caps, you will need a 17 millimeter cone wrench
then wrench here to allow us to install those
for the cassette installation.
There are two tools that you need.
They're your standard tools that you use for installing bicycle cassettes.
This is called a chain whip that's used to hold the cassette in place
while you tighten the lock ring that holds it on and then the tool that you use
to tighten the lock ring is conveniently enough called the cassette lock ring tool.
There you go.
So if you don't have these tools,
your local bike shop can, I'm sure, set you up with them.
They should have all these things in stock.
Can. Do you mind if we just take one quick step back?
Let's talk cassettes before we go ahead and get this all installed.
So I have a cassette here.
I notice there's not a cassette on the trainer.
Correct.
What am I doing with this? Is there different?
There's also a little piece here. What is this cassette?
Can you walk us through kind of what all that was? Yeah, absolutely.
So the cassette is the piece that goes on the rear wheel of your bike.
Yeah. The chain drives to spin the wheel.
The the cassette will be specific
to your bicycle, to the parts that you have on your bike.
So you will either need to remove
the cassette from your rear wheel and install it on the trainer
or you can purchase an additional cassette.
If you do that, be sure to get it the same one.
You want it to be the same number of speeds.
You want it to have used the same cassette body.
You want it to be the same size
just to make sure that everything's compatible with your bike setup.
So your cassette today is a nine speed Shimano cassette.
So the cassette body that comes installed on the trainer
is a Shimano or SRAM nine through 11 speed cassette body.
And so this is the cassette body here, right?
This is what holds the cassette on and the trainer.
Exactly.
So this piece that spins here in the middle, that's your cassette body.
So if you don't have if you have a cassette
other than a Shimano or SRAM 9 to 11 speed,
you might need an additional cassette body.
Okay, so we do sell some other ones to fit different types of cassettes.
I have one here.
This is for the new Campagnolo 13 speed car group.
This is called the Camping in three W cassette body.
So this this can be installed in place if you have that group.
We also have them for Shimano Micro Spine,
which is for the new Shimano 12 speed mountain bike groups.
We have them for the the previous campagnolo nine through 12
speed groups and we have another one that works with the SRAM XD,
or XDR, which is for their 12 speed road and mountain bike groups.
Okay.
So if you are unsure of which one you have,
I would I would highly recommend talking to your local
bike shop and they can explain to you which one you have.
And if you need something
different than the one that comes installed on the trainer,
we have all of them on our website.
We even have convenient bundles on the Neo two t page where if you need a different
cassette body, you can select it there and it will just come in the box
shipped to you and you can just remove the existing
cassette body and install the new one and we'll go over how to do that as well.
Perfect. Okay.
So we got to set the stage here.
We got a through axle,
so we're going to go ahead and change out our drop, not drop outs.
And caps. Axle and caps.
There you got you are.
Then put that here and we're going to install the cassette.
We don't need to change the body because it's I'm running the nine speed
which this is already.
Acceptable yet
but we'll go over how to do that anyway in case in case you need to do.
That, that makes sense.
So to remove these quick release and caps again, we need our five mm elements.
So I'm going to go ahead and remove these
and we'll go ahead and set those aside.
Be sure to put them someplace where you can find them in case you end up
with a road bike one of these days you want to put it on the trainer
with those off.
This is when you could easily change the cassette body it on it.
It actually just slides right off.
Oh, can I see that easy?
So just right in and out. Yeah, exactly.
And so if you needed to install a different one, you could just take
the other cassette body, slide it right on.
That's pretty straightforward. Okay, it's pretty easy.
So we'll go ahead and leave this one on again
since you have that nine speed Shimano cassette
and then we need to get the axle in caps for your bike.
So we're going to go for 12.
12. Mm. For you through axle
12 these will be our
12 drives so I'll get that one installed here.
And then for the non drive side
we'll have the 12 by 142 again because your bike has the 142.
Mm. Rear spacing.
And let me guess and yes.
Because it's the non drive.
Exactly. Okay. I'm, I'm taking this up.
One more. Time.
We do this obviously.
I look forward to the one more thing that we may want to mention.
If your bike has disc brakes like yours does, it may need a little bit
more clearance so that that your rear brake doesn't touch the trainer.
Okay.
And so we include this little 2.7 millimeter spacer that you can install.
And so we'll go ahead and do that and just make sure that that your bike
has enough space.
So that just slides right on the threads of that non drive side and cap
and just threaded right in.
And you've got that again your 17 millimeter cone wrench.
We can just these don't have to be super tight
but just snug enough that they're not going to move.
And there we are.
So now we're ready to mount your cassette.
Let's do it.
So since this is a nine speed cassette,
it's going to need a small spacer to be installed.
Since this is
adapted for 11 speed cassettes for nine
or ten, they'll most likely require a spacer to be installed behind.
The cassette, not just slides on there.
So we'll slide that on and then go ahead and install the cassette
if you need any additional cassette installation help.
There are lots of videos out there.
Sure.
Your local bike shop
or or friend who's a bike mechanic would be happy to give you a hand.
The simple of it is align the small little
spindle or notch
here with the small one on the cassette and it should slide on pretty.
Exactly.
And the installation will be a little bit different
if you if you have one of these one of the other cassette bodies.
So you may want to just be sure to.
Do a little research.
Yeah, to do a little research on the installation for your cassette.
I'm going to go ahead and mount these cogs.
And then is that cassette lock going over there for that?
And the cassette locking tool.
So if you've never done this before,
it can be a little bit of an interesting procedure.
But basically when you're when you're tightening up
the lock ring that cassettes going to try to turn.
And so this chain whip
is made so that you can
turn the cassette in the opposite direction while you tape
ordering
and get that nice and snug.
And we're ready to put your bike on that.
Let's do it.
All right.
So now we've got the trainer all set up.
We've got the cassette installed, we have the appropriate end caps installed.
It's time to mount the bicycle.
So one one tip for removing your rear wheel.
It is easier if you shift the chain all the way down into the smallest
cog will make it come out a little smoother.
And this through axle bike we're going to go ahead and
thread the thru axle out and slide it out to sit this close by.
You're going to need that again in a minute to mount the bicycle to the trainer
and then we'll go ahead and
remove this rear wheel to set it to the side
and then mounting to
the trainer is going to be just like mounting a rear wheel.
Just go ahead and get that chain again.
On to the smallest cog
and then just ease the bike down onto those in caps.
Once you've got it positioned,
you'll just need to reinstall the through axle.
This will just thread right in.
All right.
So the bike is now installed and you're ready to connect the trainer
to your favorite training app.
Personally, I like the tax training app,
but it's compatible with all of your other third party apps as well.
If you have a quick release, bike installation is very similar,
you would just attach it as you attach your rear quick release wheel.
Bobbie, thank you so much, man.
I really, really appreciate it.
Thanks for putting this whole production
together to get this bike install on the trainer.
I'm ready to go put some miles in.
If you guys have any questions or need to watch through this again,
feel free to watch the any part of this video
or check out the product page in the description below.
We have a full breakdown of this, all these installation instructions
or feel free to leave a comment with some of your good cycling stories
and if there's anything else.
Thank you, Bobbie. And we'll have a great day.
Have a good one.