rollers for keeping fit over winter?

crogger750
crogger750 Posts: 9
edited October 2009 in Training, fitness and health
reading about rollers in a recent test on such items in a cycle magazine, they stated that you need a rear mounted cycle computer to moniter progress. Have they got this right as the way i understand it all the rollers i have seen have a drive belt from the rear to the front roller so your front wheel goes round as normal surely this drives your normal front wheel mounted comp no problem, am i missing something or have they made a little mistake?
Not looking to win any races but just wanting to keep up reasonable level of fitness over the dark nights.

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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    They are wrong.

    Rollers = both wheels rotate at same speed

    Turbo = rear wheel only
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    I pointed this out to them in the Cycling Plus Office forum a month ago, but they haven't bothered to reply...

    http://www.bikeradar.com/road/forums/vi ... t=12648759

    It does make you wonder whether to take anything in the tests seriously if whoever wrote it made such an elementary mistake...
    ...and repeated it three times...
  • crogger750
    crogger750 Posts: 9
    thanks for that it does rather call into question the value of the tests??
    I thought of rollers, so I could keep a rough idea things are going the right way by just using my front wheel computer. simlple I thought, till the magazine rather confused me.
  • amck111
    amck111 Posts: 189
    I’m just off my rollers for the first time this year and my computer did not work on them. I found this extremely bizarre, even more so when my computer worked fine whenever I lifted the front wheel of the roller and spun it round with my hand. Worked perfectly during yesterdays 3 hour cycle too. Maybe cycling plus is actually onto something here. Or maybe there’s a ghost in my rollers. :roll:
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    I can't see how it wouldn't work - the wheel's going round, the magnet's going past the sensor, the sensor's connected to the display unit either by wire or wirelessly.

    Obviously different on a turbo, where the back wheel's going round but the front one's stationary on a block.

    Even my Boardman wireless computer works on my rollers - the one which reads 63mph when I'm stopped at the traffic lights, or zero if I switch-on my LED lights...

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