Elite Square Smart Frame with Virtual Shifting System for Cycling Trainer

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 buttons to activate third-party app controls (protocol available, pending integration by software developers), two buttons to directly control the airflow intensity of Aria, Elite's smart fan, if connected, or to enable virtual steering on Zwift, allowing your avatar to move left or right on the course, two shifting buttons, one button for the Campagnolo gear change, and one brake button, activated using 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 will also be available for purchase, offering a comfortable and secure fit for all your devices.

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.

This convenient setup allows users to swiftly connect each trainer to the frame with.

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.

Square Smart Frame compatibility

Elite trainers compatible:
Avanti
All Direto home trainers (Direto, Direto X, Direto XR, Direto XR-T, Direto XR Team, Direto XR Cog)
Justo and Justo 2
Suito and Suito-T
Which other brands trainers are compatible with Square?

Other brands compatible:
Magene: T600 - T300
Saris: H3
Tacx: Flux, Neo 2, Neo 3M
Wahoo: Kickr V4, Kickr V5, Kickr V6, Kickr Core, Kickr Move (with oscillation disabled).
Zwift: Hub

For home trainers not included in the above list, check their structural compatibility with Square before purchasing.
In addition, it is necessary that the trainer supports the ANT+ FEC protocol to ensure correct transmission of training data.

Elite ecosystem accessories compatible: the gradient simulator Rizer and the smart fan Aria, but not, at the moment, with those of other brands.

WARNING: if Rizer is used together with Square, only the trainers that allow the rotation of the bike's rear carriage and that support the use of gradient simulators for front bike wheels are compatible with the Elite’s smart frame. This applies to both Elite and other brands trainers.