First bike trainer I've owned, so I don't have any comparison, but I'm enjoying it so far. Rode it once with my normal hybrid tires and it was okay, once I swapped to the Saris Training Tire, it was awesome! I can't stress enough that you really need a training tire of some sort, this Saris one was night and day. Update the firmware before calibrating it too, the original factory setting was nuts and I barely reached the 21MPH benchmark the first time. Only complaint is that I had to borrow my daughter's iPad to calibrate it, the utility app has not been updated for use on the current Android OS. Saris, please fix that!