Turbo trainer question

[Mike-6424]

Hello can anyone help me with a question I recently bought a giant defy 3.5 off a mate of mine and was talking about turbo trainers is there any way of buying a second rear wheel and cassette and gears to use on the trainer so I've got one wheel for road use and one for training if it's possible?
Thank you

 

[Andy84]

I've just don't that as my dads birthday present. Picked up a cheap wheel from decathlon, only £35.

 

[Mike-6424]

Thank you I'll pop into a branch

 

[amaferanga]

You don't need a spare wheel. A regular tyre is fine on a turbo. People that complain about rapid tyre wear have too much pressure on the turbo roller. Set up properly your tyre will wear out no quicker than it will on the road. I've been using a regular tyre on my turbo all winter and doing about 5 hours/week on the turbo I can't see any wear compared to the start of the winter.

 

[Mike-6424]

Cheers again for the advice I'm only a beginner on road cycling so I also want to find out a good turbo trainer?

 

[Rob500]

I started out just using my original rear wheel & tyre over the winter. My thinking was that I'd be getting a new set of tyres for when the weather picked up again. I continued with that but got fed up swapping the tyre. (Never realised the tyre wouldn't be damaged).
In the end I bought a 2nd hand wheel with 9spd cassette of a work mate and now use it on the turbo.

 

[oldfatfool]

You don't need a spare wheel. A regular tyre is fine on a turbo. People that complain about rapid tyre wear have too much pressure on the turbo roller. Set up properly your tyre will wear out no quicker than it will on the road. I've been using a regular tyre on my turbo all winter and doing about 5 hours/week on the turbo

You obviously aren't training hard enough Try doing 5 hours in a single session with some decent gradients and see what your road tyre looks like!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You obviously aren't training hard enough Try doing 5 hours in a single session with some decent gradients and see what your road tyre looks like!

5 hour turbo sessions! you need to get a life. I would not have time for a 5 hour session, I wouldn't do 5 hours on a turbo, I get bored after half an hour, 2 1 hour sessions a week, if I can fit them in, is enough.

 

[Doseone]

I used to turbo and it did my head in. Take note quantum physicians, if ever you want to slow time just do a turbo session and watch the clock.

But back to the OP's question - I used to do just that, I had an old wheel with a turbo tyre on that I would swap in for turbo sessions. I had previously wrecked a road tyre on the turbo and I knew about correct pressures etc.

Haven't been on the thing for years thank god.

 

[endoman]

done 360 miles on the turbo with a road tyre, never more than 75 mins at once, tyre is just the same as it's companion on the front. Use these wheels for wet / commute. rather buy a road tyre for same cost as a trainer tyre and use it on rad as well.
My tyre has plenty life left in it, probably die around 2000 miles before going on turbo wheel.

 

[oldfatfool]

5 hour turbo sessions! you need to get a life. I would not have time for a 5 hour session, I wouldn't do 5 hours on a turbo, I get bored after half an hour, 2 1 hour sessions a week, if I can fit them in, is enough.

If you can find time to fit a 5hr ride in outside, why can't you find time to do the same indoors when the weather means there is no alternative??
If you think spending 4~5 hours on a snowy Sunday morning riding the 2010 Etape up the Tourmalet whilst watching your progress in real time HD video is boring then fairymuff, me I enjoy the challenge, course I could just sit and play on the net.

 

[Keith Oates]

When I first came to Ho Chi Minh City I didn't have a bike and for other reasons did 6 months on a turbo, doing about seven hours a week. Just sitting there pedaling is indeed boring but I used to change the progamme each night and then concentrate on Cadence, heart rate, watts, attack at the bottom of 'hills' etc. and found that the time passed quite quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

If you can find time to fit a 5hr ride in outside, why can't you find time to do the same indoors when the weather means there is no alternative??
If you think spending 4~5 hours on a snowy Sunday morning riding the 2010 Etape up the Tourmalet whilst watching your progress in real time HD video is boring then fairymuff, me I enjoy the challenge, course I could just sit and play on the net.

I'd rather be out on my bike than sitting in my shed listening to music on my mp3 player whilst watching the heartrate monitor and spinning the pedals whilst going nowhere, like a Hamster on a wheel.

 

[oldfatfool]

I'd rather be out on my bike than sitting in my shed listening to music on my mp3 player whilst watching the heartrate monitor and spinning the pedals whilst going nowhere, like a Hamster on a wheel.

And if I had to sit in a shed with nothing but a heart rate monitor to watch then I would probably also brave a few inch of snow. But I don't so I won't if it is all the same to you.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

And if I had to sit in a shed with nothing but a heart rate monitor to watch then I would probably also brave a few inch of snow. But I don't so I won't if it is all the same to you.

Even if I had the video to watch I would still rather be out on my bike, and theres no way I would spend 5 hours on the turbo, I've got better things to do with my time.