FulGaz 4+

Lots of well-shot apps from all over the world, conveniently cataloged. Unfortunately many problems with the app. Poor layout: after you select a vid and download it, you have to back up to couple the trainer & sensors, then bring up the vid again before you can start. Latest bug: vid downloading broke about a week ago. When you start to download a vid, it proceeds for a while and then stalls and the app locks up. Identical problem on both iPads I own, and for all FulGaz vids. Have to stream vids instead. After not getting back to you for several days, “Customer Support” tells you to try something that they already asked you to try and you had reported that it didn’t work! Too many other issues to detail here.

I was loving this app! The beautiful scenery in the video made riding inside a lot more bearable! It’s also nice that you can see all your data on the screen while not taking away from the view! I thought, man this is great! I finally found an app that look forward to using. Then... the dreaded update, dum, dum, dum.
The first thing that was a little annoying was the thumbnails to choose your ride are smaller and hard to read. I’ve been doing the climbing program so it was easy to get back to. I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like to try and browse through the options. On to the ride itself. Video quality still great, scenery still beautiful. Now all your data is shown on a little virtual bike computer, cool idea. The placement is right in front like it is on your bike but it totally obstructs your view and for me ruined the experience. I used to be able to see my cadence as well as the target cadence, watts, calories, total time as well as segment time remaining and more, it was great! Now everything is too small to see and the more I looked at the screen the more annoyed I got. I ended up throwing my towel over the screen so I didn’t have to look at it anymore. I’m giving this app 5 stars because it was great and I’m confident someone is going to realize it needs to be changed back to the way it was.

I bought my first Kinetic bike trainer since we won’t be going to the gym this winter. I’ve been using Zwift since I got it and while it worked and was ok I just wasn’t supper impressed with the ERG mode as it was made more to follow a certain training workout rather than the terrain and the videos weren’t real.

I road the Windsor Great Park ride tonight and I love FulGaz’s HD real videos of real places so you actually get to ride places you may or may not ever get to visit and the ERG mode really seemed to follow the video and displayed grade very well. Also this was the first ride since getting the trainer were my average speed inside matched what I normally average outside. I look forward to more rides to explore different trails!

One Con I just realized about FulGaz is it doesn’t upload your rides to their server so you can’t review your past rides on another device as past rides only reside on the device were you were running the app at the time. You can get around this limitation by having it automatically upload your rides to Strava or one of the few other options.