First - welcome to the dark side. Training indoors is never fun and is honestly one of the most mind numbing things anyone could ever do. Don’t underestimate this fact. This is why “smart” trainers exist.

People can poo pop them all they want but computrainer s are readily available on the secondary market for $250-$400. I haven’t paid more than $300 for any that I have bought for the last 3 years or so. They still represent some of the best and most reliable industrial grade hardware out there. They can also be used with almost all of the apps that people are using that use smart trainers. People just don’t want them because they have wires, they think that because the industrial controls company that made them closed their “Racermate” division that somehow the stuff was bad, and they seem “confusing” to average users.

If you can can wade through that noise you can have one of the best trainers ever made for next to nothing.

Got in a a lot of arguements about this in the past but at the end of the day the training hasnt gotten any easier and last I heckled it’s still just as hard to ride a computrainer as it is to ride a “zwifternetic”.