Originally Posted by
chaadster
Kurt Kinetic are almost out of the game. They don't even have a smart unit yet, and the one they're coming out with isn't ANT+ FEC controllable. You can get a better trainer that does more for almost half the price. Kurt is too little, too late, and the success of Zwift they'll never compete with on their own proprietary system. They're way behind the curve now, but in '17, they'll be totally irrelevant.
The KKRM is fit for purpose. It's a big step up from a spin bike for the purposes of cycling and staying fit. When you start talking about controllability, then you step up into a completely new ball park of trainers and a completely different price point. The KK is quiet (that's possibly it's biggest sell over it's equally capable competition) and not much more than a cheap spin bike and you get a power output via your speed that you can translate from their graph. For less that $100 if you have an apple device, you get a digital output of power, speed, etc. It will still work well for Zwift due to it's predictable power curve. If you want all the bells and whistles of a controllable trainer, then you're up into $1k+ territory. Horses for courses.