what's up everyone china cycling here aka joe aka the gravy sausage combo obviously due to the current situation a lot of the world is stuck indoors so a trainer review seemed only natural so let's take a look at the best trainer money can't buy the new graphite t300 from mcgee [Music] now the original graver trainer from mcgee was something that sent ripples throughout the indoor training industry back when it debuted in 2017. it was also the train that inspired me to start this channel showing you guys things that previously were unknown in the west at the time it was a trainer with similar specs to the second gen kicker but less than half the price and quieter too they used a different belt system to the kicker which made the gravel quieter something that wahoo then adopted for their own trainers so while people may love to point fingers and accuse the chinese of being copycat masters it goes both ways anyway regardless of who copies who as long as companies are copying the good things that can only be good news for us the consumers in late 2018 they updated the graver with the gravit2 pretty similar to the original but now with support for through axles the original sensei of bike tech reviews dc raymaker put one through its paces and seemingly loved it complementing its accuracy and quietness with his main complaint being a lack of a handle the king of indoor trainer reviews gp llama also did a video on it and was impressed too also a fan of the accuracy but his main complaint being the external physical power meter and its ease of manipulation you could literally pull on it to increase your wattage not cool not cool flash forward to the end of last year when mcgee debuted this the t300 or the gravit 3 as i prefer to call it this one is definitely more of a fresh start and less of an evolution looking at the trainer they've really upped their game in terms of the physical design of the thing i personally think it looks great and the foldable legs are a welcome addition in their promo materials they boast that it folds away to be just 21 centimeters wide for convenient storage a few centimeters thinner than the competition and a whole lot better than the first two generations there are some love them or hate them led lights underneath the trainer that change color depending on what zone you're riding in i like that i can see what zone i'm in when i'm bending over the bars staring down about to pass out but some people think they look cheap and tacky regardless you can turn them off in the mcginn app and at the top we have a handle i'm not sure how many of you out there have a dedicated place for your trainer or if you have to get out of storage for every session if that is the case the handle will definitely be a hit with [Music] you going past the physical looks and having a gander at the spec sheet connectivity is something mcgean have always been good at and that's no different here ant plus and bluetooth are no problem and there's an app for android and ios called magee utility that lets you quickly connect to the trainer update its firmware calibrate it turn off the leds etc it's a pretty simple app but i like it it does what you want to do without a first maximum gradient simulation is up to 22 percent which is a few percent better than the latest kicker but a few below the tacx neo maximum resistance is 2 600 watts at 60k an hour so definitely enough for us mere mortals power accuracy is a claimed two percent we'll have a close look at that later if that's correct that's the same accuracy as a wahoo kicker or a saris h3 or cyclops hammer 3. in terms of bike compatibility out of the box we've got our standard quick release rim brake compatibility but also have options for compatibility with 142 or 148 mil through axles and xdr cassettes both of which i took advantage of with my new bike review of that coming soon so let's have a dive into the accuracy now i'm not going to go as deep as dcr gp larmor or keith wakemare i'm just going to tell you what you want to know is it good enough for starters it's fundamentally different to the first two generations gone is the physical power meter and has been replaced with an optical one as used in many other high-end trainers the advantage is it should be more durable and less susceptible to temperature drift it also can't be hacked gp llama style to cheat on zwift or whatever the disadvantage is well i'm not sure it's probably harder to develop and may have higher costs anyway mines seem to require a bit of betting in period straight out of the box i wasn't getting the accuracy numbers i should have been i had three power meters on the go the favero asiomo pedals which everyone agrees are the gold standard of accuracy the xkd two in one power dual sided power meter on a 105 crank set and then the t300 the aseomas and the xkd were in strong agreement with each other but the t300 was consistently lagging below the solution was to do a bit of a hard ride on the unit which in my fitness at the time i was able to muster about 160 watts for 30 minutes and then immediately do a spin down calibration while everything's still warm mageen recommend doing 100 watts for 10 minutes but in my experience that wasn't enough anywho after this spin down calibration everything was happy days the three power meters were tracing each other pretty directly looking at the mean power for the ride at the 16 minute mark the three power meters were averaging 125.
7 125. 6 and 125. 5 pretty crazy just 0.
3 watts difference which works out to around 0.
