For those of us that have to slug it out in the dark rainy winter sometimes you need an alternative. The trainer that caught my eye was the Tacx Cosmos www.tacx.com. It provides all the information you could possibly want HR, Power, Cadence, % grad and connects to your PC to download your workouts. It is compact and the display is easy to use and it can exceed over 2000 watts. Tacx also makes a virtual reality trainers that let you suffer up Mt Ventoux-display model was or race the Tour of Flanders. These can definitely help the winter work outs pass a little quicker.