Rollers - how to ride them - the fools way

JohnnyAllez

I lent my mate my set of Antares rollers the other day, as he was moaning that the weather was crap and he couldn`t get out (and me being a greedy git had my turbo to play on instead). Anyway, he comes into work the next day with a cut hand, bent finger etc, moaning about how hard the rollers are to ride, how he couldn`t get going on `em and had come a right cropper numerous times until he`d said "sod it" and given up

I called him a useless fool etc and after quizzing him on why he was a useless fool it turned out he had been trying to ride the rollers with the FRONT wheel on the DOUBLE rollers, and the BACK wheel on the SINGLE roller :shock: No wonder he couldn`t get going :roll: Would have been funny to watch though, makes your eyes water just thinking about how you would do that

robrauy

brilliant

almost as good as my attempt to ride mine when they were wet!

Matt the Tester

rofl is there any clips of something similar on youtube?

JohnnyAllez

I told him to get his video camera set up as well, would have been worth something on ?"You`ve been framed" !

Bronzie

robrauy wrote:

almost as good as my attempt to ride mine when they were wet!

Agreed.........it is not recommended/possible

oldwelshman

r like me recently when the belt had a twist in it so the front wheel was going backwards!!

Bhima

Whatever you do, DON'T stick a fan at an angle if you plan on using deep section wheels on the rollers. :shock: Even the smallest crosswind on them and it's game over!

John C.

Don't swerve to miss the cat that wonders in front of you :oops: I did

andrewgturnbull

oldwelshman wrote:

r like me recently when the belt had a twist in it so the front wheel was going backwards!!

Hi there.

Hmm, should still work - the momentum of your front wheel would still be in the same plane, even if it's spinning backwards.

Cheers, Andy

majormantra

andrewgturnbull wrote:

oldwelshman wrote:

r like me recently when the belt had a twist in it so the front wheel was going backwards!!

Hi there.

Hmm, should still work - the momentum of your front wheel would still be in the same plane, even if it's spinning backwards.

Cheers, Andy

But won't the steering be backwards? Or am I visualising this wrong?

Matthew