Rollers for Xmas?

prb007

Doing this in May of next year.......

http://joglemay2011.blogspot.com/

and as Winter appears to have started today, was thinking of getting some rollers,
anyone had experience of these.........

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Elite ... e=googleps

I've also read that rollers giver a higher quality workout than spinning or a turbo??

andy_wrx

Not higher quality, rollers give a different quality of workout than spinning or a turbo.

Unless you get some of the expensive rollers which have variable resistance or get the Tacx ones with the add-on resistance unit, rollers have far less resistance than a turbo, so are less useful for low-revs, high-resistance stuff which you might want if you were a track sprinter say or training for hills.

However, they're great for spinning-type stuff and much better for improving your pedalling action and your bike handling, etc.

Turbos can be boring as hell, you can switch off and just grind along. Rollers need to be ridden, lose concentration and you're off the side (or maybe not on those parabolics, but you'll get a wake up certainly !)

The ideal is perhaps both...

sheffsimon

If Santa brought me some rollers for Christmas I'd boot the f**ker back up the chimney, and drink his whisky the missus leaves out.

Still let Rudolph have his carrot though.

prb007

SheffSimon wrote:

If Santa brought me some rollers for Christmas I'd boot the f**ker back up the chimney, and drink his whisky the missus leaves out.

Still let Rudolph have his carrot though.

Simon; not taht I'm spoiled or anything, but when the missus
asks me ' What would you like for Xmas, love?'
I usually struggle, cos there are not many cycling 'toys'
I don't have, maybe a Garmin 705, but I'm a bit of a technophobe, tbh!
so...........rollers it is!

dave35

Recently got a set of the Elite Parabolics...fantastic,really help to smooth out your pedalling.
Use your gears as resistance and you'll get a good workout, i certainly feel more knackered riding the rollers than i ever did on the turbo.

Slimbods

Worth asking at your club for a used pair, quite a few people seem to buy rollers and don't get on with them.

Velonutter

I have both, a Minoura GVR100 Turbo for when I want to build some power/interval training and a set of Elite V-arion Variable rollers for building up my VO2 and smoothness.

It's good to vary your training and break the monotony, I find the rollers exhausting and the turbo painful, so they both have their place in my training schedule.