stevej wrote:
lightheir wrote:
stevej wrote:
Looks interesting and I like some of the new features. I’d be a little worried about infant mortality issues. Wahoo doesn’t have a great track record with 1st gen products. Not sure I would be willing to fork out $5k for a product with questionable longevity. If I was in the market, I might still lean towards a used woodway for a little more money.Just guessing, but how would infant mortality be a bigger issue with this TM? If it's set on the free-run mode, there should be no way an infant can get stuck under it. An adult would have to be actively running on it to keep it going while the infant gets trapped under it, and then have to KEEP on running on it to stay centered on the belt.
I do think safest is always to wait out the 1st gen as well. But what the hey - I was a late-early adopter of Kickr V1, and despite trying my best to abuse it (zero service/cleaning of it, ever), it refuses to die - I'm still using it!
I was referring to new devices, components, etc that fail in early in their life. It's typically referred to infant mortality. But maybe not the greatest term for this scenario.
LOL totally misunderstood that. Learned something today!
But on a related note, the improved safety of the quick-stop once you're sliding off the back should and probably will be a major selling feature of this TM. For sure, my wife, who's only a sporadic runner, will give me the 100% go on this purchase merely because she's always anxious that my middle-school daughter will fall off the back of my garage TM, and will LOVE that the odds of a high-speed rear fall is greatly decreased, if not near-eliminated with this new one.