Rollers or turbo

Craigbes
Craigbes Posts: 74
edited October 2009 in Road buying advice
I'm looking to buy some sort of winter training aid be it some rollers or a turbo trainer. Any advice will be welcome. A lot of my riding is commuting. Usually about a 26 mile round trip with a good mixture of hills and flat. I need something that will keep me up to speed.

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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Turbo - rollers are fine for warm-ups and fast cadence drills, but lack of variability makes them limited for all-round training.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Turbo - rollers are fine for warm-ups and fast cadence drills, but lack of variability makes them limited for all-round training.

    +1
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • Eddy S
    Eddy S Posts: 1,013
    hopper1 wrote:
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Turbo - rollers are fine for warm-ups and fast cadence drills, but lack of variability makes them limited for all-round training.

    +1
    I should let the pair of you try my E-Motion rollers or even my old Tacx T1200s fitted with a resistance unit which will pretty quickly avail you of this point of view.
    I’m a sprinter – I warmed up yesterday.

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