Indoor Cycling?

[Joe24]

What is much better then turbo trainers and rollers is to have either an indoor track like Manchester, but better, or buy a big building, there are many going spare, and convert it into your own cycle track with climbs, decents and other things in.

Turbos and rollers are for peasants

 

[aJohnson]

What is much better then turbo trainers and rollers is to have either an indoor track like Manchester, but better, or buy a big building, there are many going spare, and convert it into your own cycle track with climbs, decents and other things in.

Turbos and rollers are for peasants

Ok, but if it was between Turbos and rollers AND ONLY turbos and rollers.

 

[Will1985]

Love it Joe!! If I had a spare million (any backers?), I'd develop a portable 250m velodrome company to move round the less fortunate areas of the country....there are enough empty superwarehouses in the UK lying empty, and this way they'd be in use!

Back on topic, turbos and rollers serve different purposes:
Rollers are useful for developing balance and a smooth pedalling action. Most don't have any resistance. Ideal to warm up on at the velodrome and road races.
Turbos are useful for longer structured training sessions. The resistance can be changed to simulate hills and drags, focusing more on power, heart rate and intensity. Useful for warming up at time trials.

I have both and use both. If I were to choose just one for those cold and rainy days in winter it would be a turbo....I can't last more than about 30 minutes on rollers without needing to take a break to relieve the saddle area!

 

[mr-marty-martin]

rollers are the 1 like, specialy our home made resistance rollers, the best of both worlds...

 

[lukesdad]

For general training, which has the more benefits or which has the more drawbacks.

Rollers are usually used for warming up before a race.A turbo trainer is better for general training unles its balance training your after

 

[kyuss]

I've been wanting a set of e-motion rollers for ages. The resistance of a turbo trainer with the real life feel of rollers, and they just look like so much fun to use.

 

[jimboalee]

http://blog.teamgearedup.com/2008/12/rolling-ski-slope-skicentre-open-in-sandyford-dublin.html

Change the surface texture to something ( grip tape ) that resembles a road. Put the whole machine on hydraulic rams to adjust the slope and RUN IT BACKWARDS....

 

[bonj2]

rollers are useful if you want to know what the experience of falling off is like.

 

[Joe24]

rollers are useful if you want to know what the experience of falling off is like.

Thats because your not serious enough to be able to ride on them!

 

[jimboalee]

Riding on a turbo or rollers in you own home.

Everything downwind of you gets coated in a thin film of YOUR body's oil, evaporated away off your sweaty skin.

No thanks. I go out on the road, or to the gym where they have window cleaners to wipe everybody's oil off the glass.

 

[Globalti]

A turbo trainer session is a waste of time without a heart rate monitor, in my opinion.

 

[jimboalee]

A turbo trainer session is a waste of time without a heart rate monitor, in my opinion.

They are OK for warning you of an approaching heart failure, but have no consistant correlation to power output.

A turbo trainer session is only purposeful if the power output history is recorded.

Enter the iMagic....