Turbo Trainer - Fixie or Gears ?

OldSeagul

I have bought an CycleOps Fluid2 Trainer and cannot decide whether to use the Specialized Langster fixie or the Giant SCR2 with gears.

Does anyone have experience of using either fixed or gears with a turbo trainer and are there any benefits one over the other ?

oldwelshman

If you have varying resistance use gears.
If your going to ride track, then use fixed with fixed resistance.

Bronzie

oldwelshman wrote:

If you have varying resistance use gears.
If your going to ride track, then use fixed with fixed resistance.

I'd probably suggest the other way round!

If you can vary the resistance of the turbo, you can use fixed.
If not, you'll need gears to be able to vary the resistance of the effort.

Not sure there is any advantage to fixed over gears on a turbo other than giving you a nice smooth pedal action. I tend to use fixed on my rollers because I find it easier to get started on them on fixed and it's doubly important to stay smooth on rollers.

oldwelshman

Nayway why use a fixed? just keep normal bike in one gear
Bronzie get to Welwyn for training !!

jonginge

Gears for me on my Fluid2. There's no variable resistance as such, it just gets harder as you pedal faster. Lower gears allow a reasonable cadence during warmup/down and between intervals.

Bronzie

oldwelshman wrote:

Bronzie get to Welwyn for training !!

Training starts THIS FRIDAY :shock:

oldwelshman

Got my number tonight, in with the big boys this year so guess I will be biting the bars