I have a Kurt Kinetic "road machine." It's a fluid trainer.

Likes:
-super stable
-super smooth, acceleration feels a lot like the road
-pretty quiet, relatively speaking

Dislikes:
-ugh, the trainer is so boring!
-this is inconsequential, but the skewer supplied with the trainer is quite long, and my small carbon bike has narrow dropouts -- it's a major hassle to get it tightened down. (I know this is hard to believe, since I *think* road bikes have a standard dropout width, but compared side to side, my bike's skewer is at least 1.5 - 2" shorter, maybe more, than the trainer skewer. Maybe to accomodate mountain bikes?).

In spite of the annoying skewer, though, I would definitely recommend this model.