CycleOps Magneto Trainer

northturton

any views on the CycleOps Magneto Trainer Set that I'm thinking of ordering from wiggle

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... iner%20Set

is it durable? worth it? should I get a fluid? noise isnt really an issue as I;ll use it in my garage (with mat)

I recently returend a tacx as the leg welding broke after two uses, so no more tacx satori for me.

rohloff-rich

northturton wrote:

any views on the CycleOps Magneto Trainer Set that I'm thinking of ordering from wiggle

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... iner%20Set

is it durable? worth it? should I get a fluid? noise isnt really an issue as I;ll use it in my garage (with mat)

I recently returend a tacx as the leg welding broke after two uses, so no more tacx satori for me.

I'm looking at the same one, but noise is a priority for me. Interested to hear replies (and sorry to hijack!)

PhilBixby

I've been using the Magneto since the New Year. It's worked perfectly, nothing's worn out / dropped off. I've not used a turbo prior to this so no idea on noise comparisons but it seems pretty reasonable to me. The progressive resistance works well - it's pretty much like riding on the road in that the faster you go the harder it gets to go any faster. I use my race bike on it with a Garmin Edge 305 to record data and the combination has been great.

Phil B
Clifton CC York

northturton

Thanks for the update.

The progressive resistance is what confuses me about this - as in how it really works. When I had a Tacx for a week (a leg broke) I had the resistance at 10/10 so I could do deathly climbs at high cadence - how would I achieve the same with the cycleops?

I want to do alot of flat type training, but I have long gradients around here of 10 percent and some short of 16 and 19 percent that I want to immitate.

PhilBixby

Just stick it in the right gear. I do everything on the little ring, so I warm up starting spinning on the 21 cog, working up to the 17 cog, which gets my HR up to about 80% HRmax. I then go up to the 15 cog for longer intervals at around threshold, or the 14 cog for shorter intervals up above it. That gives me a cadence of 90-100 or so. So, for instance, if I wanted to replicate long, 10% hills that I'd be riding up at my threshold, I'd stick it in the 15 cog.

Clearly these numbers will vary depending on how strong you are, but the principle of the progressive resistance seems to mean it replicates the road quite well. So, deathly climbs at high cadence should be no problem. Just find a gear at which you're pushing as hard as you can at the sort of cadence you want - if you need more resistance than me (I'm a 48yo road racer) then you've got the whole of the big ring to play with!

Phil B
Clifton CC York