I've found a guy who was selling his Fortius, I've bought most of his videos... :-)

Now, I own 15 RLV (including the f.....g Ergovideo). Lots of fun waiting for me... the hardest part was to install them all in my new hard disk (yes, as those videos take some room... I've bought a 250mb hard disk to install them all... was it necessary... mpppfff.... don't know... A good thing, is that in the RLV control panel, I've got all the routes at my fingertips, no need to dwell with the DVDs...
I hope it will be possible soon to make (as a Tacx guy wrote it on the forum) multisessions trip out of several DVDs... Currently, it's only possible from only one DVD...

I've ordered the Argus Tour this week. On the Tacx website, they were very laudatory about it.

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I've rode about two hours on it, huuuurkkk... it's ugly... it looks almost like a Youtube video... dull colors, poor definition...

Besides, the ride starts on the Capetown's suburbs, then rolls on highways for about an hour... bwwwaaarkkk...

It gets better latter with some rolling hills on the seaside... one will find there the "like on a bike ride" feeling of the RLV on a Fortius, accelerating on downhills, turns, and hard on climbing...
The rider's simulated view is quite realistic, wide enough to get most of the scenery, and reacting as a real rider would on the turns (i.e. look some meters ahead on the curb, and not just in front of the camera car bumper...)

I've discovered later that the older Tacx RLVs were filmed on DV, then compressed, then stretched, then got their framerate adapted... and eventually end up looking just as Youtube clips...

The next RLV's will be filmed in HD with a higher screen resolution, and could look like this :



pretty good... isn't it ?