Review: We thought it was v.good but too expensive at rrp—it's now £1,100 less… cycling
The Stages SB20 is a solidly built, good quality smart bike with lots going for it. Overall it outperforms the Wattbike Atom, which is the bike it's most directly competing with. It's at the expensive end of the market for true smart bikes, and it's not quite as accomplished as some of the others out there, but overall it's a very good option for heavy use indoors.
The SB20 is designed for heavy use indoors with a smart training app, and plenty of thought has gone into making it ideal for that. You can charge your phone or tablet via USB while you're riding, and there's a phone tray and an optional iPad holder supplied. There are two water bottle holders either side of the bike which will accept pretty much any bottle, so you're not limited to bike bidons – you can use your gym bottle if you like.
I mentioned before that the SB20 uses Stages' crank-based power technology. It's the Stages Gen 3 dual-sided power meter, which delivers +/- 1.5% accuracy and is relied on by a number of WorldTour pro teams. And which is right? Impossible to say, really. I'd have no issues with either of these power traces independent of the other, and the differences are quite subtle. Neither of them are exactly right, and both of them are close enough. The numbers I was seeing made me competitive with the people I'd be competitive with outdoors, so they're entirely believable.
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