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It’s good that there is competition. Why so late. But I thought the Elite would be cheaper than the wahoo. Looks weird. Wachoo prettier. Plus for height adjustment. I am waiting for the test, let it not hum like Wahoo at low speed. This is the main disadvantage of WAhoo.
Looks is highly subjective, I wouldn’t call the Wahoo pretty. I like that Elite is doing something different with their Rizer, Justo and now this fan.
Wahoo isn’t height-adjustable. Only thing you can do is flip out the legs which also changes the angle. It’s binary – either use legs or don’t. Wouldn’t call that adjustable, while from the video it seems like the Elite Fan is totally adjustable with the rotation piece.
I gave a plus for height adjustment for Elite :)
Kudos to elite by implementing control with power, not just heart rate or speed. Price is too high tough ….
I get that there’s filtering and smarts to auto-adjust the airflow, but 300EUR for essentially a fan seems a bit over the top.
Stand fan with remote control is between 50 and 80EUR… honestly where is the value ? I know that the cycling industry is lately pushing into an “affordable luxury” concept, but …
Maybe someone should take a misting fan and add support for rainstorms to the cycling apps. ;-)
Maybe a KickStarter idea? Although one would have to use it in a location where getting wet didn’t matter.
Ryobi 18V ONE+ BUCKET TOP MISTING FAN KIT link to ryobitools.com
Had to hunt through the vid to see what the fan’s business end looked like. Not that it’s amazing or anything, just wanted to see it from a similar perspective when riding with it.
290? no.
Wowzers – that’s an expensive fan. Whilst conceptually the idea of having the fan speed based on Core Temp is quite appealing to try to manage within a core temperature zone (particularly if you are trying to get some heat acclimation benefits from pushing your core up) but given that most people will just have the fan on full whack (and least once they get warmed up), there’s not much that this really offers that presumably you can’t get with a decent industrial fan and a bog standard 20 £/EUR/USD smart plug!
Cyclists will buy anything I guess. I run on the treadmill, I use a regular retail fan and put it on the fastest mode, has worked for me for 7 years.
For a second I thought Elite produced a new portable BT spaker.
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I’m getting this for my wife, because she’s super hot.
Just got this thing in a ‘sale’ for 200€. Now a couple of things before people call me crazy (which is probably still right).
I wanted a fan with remote/app use that’s strong enough and not too big. Only a dreo fan came close, but that can’t be ordered in the EU. Now everything that meets my demands goes above 100€ – 150€ easy.
Why doesn’t a €30,- fan from local store do it for me? Well the price does, but I want a remote/app for the speed (atleast!). Why? I have a bikesetup with appletv,i walk into my garage and max 10 sec later everything is running and im doing my thing. Its easy! I don’t want my fan to make it not easy.
People spend thousands of cashes to make their bike 0,001% lighter or more aero, but a couple of cashes for easy wins like this is too much?
I’ve been using the fan for couple of weeks now and it blows my mind (pun intended). The heartrate function is soooo underrated! (body temp probably too). The machine is light yet sturdy, doesn’t make allot of noise but blows perfect. Yes the app is … let’s just say… not perfect but it does it’s thing.
I now walk into the cave, hop on the bike, appletv starts automatic with zwift and max 10sec later all is running. The bike, Zwift, Audio and the fan. And yes for me the extra cash was absolutely worth it. Where before i doubted, hindsight i really don’t it’s worth it every penny.