Elite Square
Square is a smart frame with a high-end virtual shifting system that lets you replicate your bike's components down to the exact drivetrain configuration during your indoor training.Compatible with any trainer and cycling app, Square allows you to customize the controls and precisely adapt them to the shifting systems of major manufacturers like Shimano, SRAM, or Campagnolo, so you can train indoors just like you're riding your bike outdoors. Configure the number of gears and cassette teeth, select the teeth for each chainring, or choose from preset profiles and the practical sequential shifting directly from the dedicated app. With Square, it's like you're always riding your bike, with a wide range of advanced virtual shifting options.
The shifting feel is realistic: simply operate the levers and buttons on the handlebar as you would on your outdoor bike. The belt-driven transmission provides a smooth, consistent ride with no noise or vibrations, offering an unmatched level of silence during training.
Square is fully adjustable and offers excellent adaptability for cyclists of different sizes with seven adjustable parameters, including saddle height, tilt, and setback; handlebar height and reach; and top tube length and crank arm length.
Featuring a modular architecture, it ensures a cycling setup that’s always upgradable, with endless configuration possibilities. It works seamlessly with the most popular smart trainers on the market as well as cutting-edge pain cave accessories like the Rizer.
How Can I Use the Square Smart Frame?
- Compatible with Any Trainer: No matter what trainer you own, Square works with every setup without requiring changes to your configuration. Easy, convenient, hassle-free. First step: pair your trainer with Square using the dedicated app.
- Customize Every Detail: From the saddle to the pedals, you can adjust Square to faithfully replicate the frame and drivetrain of your bike. Just like using your bike on the trainer. You can even pair it with Elite’s Rizer to simulate the climbs and descents of your favorite cycling apps.
- Use All Your Favorite Apps: No limitations: Square allows you to train on any app. Connect your trainer and all your cycling apps to enjoy maximum freedom during your workouts.
Virtual Shifting and Customizable Gearing
Elite’s Smart Frame features a high-level virtual shifting system that offers extensive customization options during gear configuration. Square allows you to replicate the three main manufacturers, Shimano, SRAM, and Campagnolo, with customizable configurations for gears and sprockets to exactly replicate your bike’s drivetrain.
Upon first use, simply select your preferred shifting system on the dedicated Square app to mimic the drivetrain groups of the main manufacturers with 13 customizable presets, allowing you to customize gear ratios, including the number of gears and the number of teeth on the cassette.
Square also offers two modes of pre-set profiles: for gears and teeth, divided into different course types (Flat Rides, Mountain Climbs, Hilly Courses). Alternatively, you can immediately use a convenient pre-set Shimano 12-speed profile (11-30).
Additionally, it includes a customizable sequential shifting system with variable resistance levels ranging from 5 to 24 levels. Finally, operate the lever and button systems on the handlebar just as you would on your outdoor bike.
What You Can Do:
- Choose cassettes with 10/11/12/13 speeds, selecting the number of teeth for each cog, from 9 to 52.
- Select configurations with 1, 2, or 3 chainrings, as well as the number of teeth for each chainring, from 60 to 22.
- Train immediately with pre-set profiles:
- By course type (Flat Rides, Mountain Climbs, Hilly Courses).
- With Shimano 12-speed (11-30).
Multi-Function Handlebar
The handlebar includes the same buttons and levers for shifting and braking that you would find on bikes with Shimano, SRAM, or Campagnolo shifting systems, positioned and functioning the same way on the Square.
Each controller is equipped with 10 buttons: four for activating third-party app controls (protocol available but awaiting activation by software developers), one to directly adjust the Aria airflow intensity if connected, one for virtual steering on Zwift, allowing your avatar to move left or right on the course (currently not supported on Elite trainers, but coming soon), two shift buttons, one for Campagnolo shifting, and one for braking, which can be activated with the brake lever.
Combinations and pressing of levers and buttons enable additional controls such as extended shifting, switch between manual and simulation modes with Aria, or switch from one profile to another.
Handlebar Specifications
Buttons and controls are placed above the grips and handlebar for a comfortable and obstacle-free grip. Ideal for maintaining correct posture during training and easily using the buttons.
The handlebar has a width of 420 mm with a 6° flare. Perfect for ensuring maximum comfort during long training sessions or extreme races.
Enhancing handlebar comfort are the grips with soft, non-slip silicone covers, like most real bikes. In addition to offering a more comfortable feel, they ensure a more secure grip and greater durability over time.
The Square includes a pre-installed Garmin-compatible mount, making it compatible with the most popular bike computers on the market. A dedicated tablet holder for conveniently housing all your devices is also available.
Fully Customizable from XS to XL
Square's adjustable design offers unparalleled adaptability, allowing you to effortlessly replicate the measurements of bikes of varying sizes and heights, with adjustable options ranging from XS to XL.
In just a few simple steps, you can customize Square to match your bike perfectly, adjusting the different sections to accommodate your frame size, ensuring optimal pedaling biomechanics and muscle memory during indoor training sessions.
Square is designed with an architecture that allows precise adjustment to the millimeter:
- Height, inclination, and fore-aft adjustment of the saddle
- Height and fore-aft adjustment of the handlebar
- Length of the horizontal tube
- Length of the cranks
Refer to the measurements provided on the adjustment areas, complete with millimeter scales, to assist you in fine-tuning the frame to your pedaling preferences and your bike's dimensions effortlessly.
Adjustable Crank Arm Length
Additionally, you'll have access to five different configurations for adjusting the crank arm length, allowing for comprehensive customization of the smart frame to suit your bike's individual specifications.
Available adjustments: 165 mm, 167.5 mm, 170 mm, 172.5 mm, 175 mm.
Unprecedented Silence
With Square, silence becomes the cornerstone of an exceptional training experience. Thanks to the belt drive system, you can enjoy a smooth and silent ride like never before, free from any noise from the chain or smart trainer. This system is the ideal integration for your training area because it provides a smooth and realistic riding experience, with the benefit of absolute quietness and always clean operations, as the belt requires no lubrication and does not get dirty like chains on conventional frames.
With its noise-free operation, Square is perfectly suited for indoor use, ensuring a tranquil environment without disruptions for family members or neighbors.
Share Your Journey with Fellow Cyclists
With its adjustable design, Square enables you to share your setup with other cyclists comfortably, without the need to switch bikes for different users.
No more disassembling and reassembling the bike if you don't already have one dedicated to indoor training, or if multiple cyclists in the household are using the same smart trainer.
Say goodbye to needing a spare cassette for your indoor bike or constantly having to find adapters and spacers to attach the bike to the trainer for every workout.
With its wide range of adjustments, Square offers a personalized training experience that's immediate and hassle-free, tailored to every cyclist.
Also, setting up your training area becomes simple and immediate with Square, as it eliminates the need for a cassette in favor of a single gear to be installed on the trainer.
Plug&Play
Setting up and connecting the Square frame is quick and hassle-free, thanks to its Plug & Play design powered by a battery. With no requirement for an electrical outlet during use, you can devote your attention to assembling the Square with the trainer and any additional accessories.
Installation and pairing with the trainer are easy and immediate thanks to the accessories and adjustment keys included in the box, and the Square control app, which allows you on first use:
- to configure your frame and pair your trainer with the Smart Frame simply by clicking on the nearest detected trainer;
- to create up to 5 different user profiles that you can divide based on the different types of gearing and ratios selected;
- to pre-set a level to maintain in stand-alone mode;
- to have access to all functions and configurations.
Manage Your Workouts Offline
The Elite Smart Frame offers you the versatility of being used in stand-alone mode even when not connected to a specific training app. Ideal if you use it in an area with poor connectivity.
By simply using the levers on the handlebar, you can adjust the resistance from 1 to 16 levels, regardless of the lever used, giving you total control over your workout even without any connectivity.
Complete Integration with Smart Trainers and Accessories
Square is smart by design, seamlessly integrating with all the most popular smart trainers on the market and our entire ecosystem of interactive technologies for indoor cycling.
Its modular structure allows for easy setup updates by simply replacing the front support leg with the Rizer, Elite’s slope simulator with integrated steering that perfectly complements Square, giving you the most realistic climbing sensation in the indoor cycling market.
Square resolves compatibility issues with various bikes, simplifying indoor training with a unified system designed for functionality, comfort, and endless upgrade possibilities with trainers and accessories.
The feeling of authentic pedaling is consistently replicated by the smart trainer connected to the Smart Frame. In our flagship models such as the Justo 2, it autonomously adjusts resistance up to an impressive 24% incline and accurately measures your power output with an accuracy of less than 1%, thanks to its built-in power meter.
Features
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Virtual Shifting
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Fully Adjustable
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Multi-Function Handlebar