Rollers v turbo.
Teach
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I am looking at getting either rollers or a turbo. My main questions is which would you get and why. The obvious answer of both is a given, but I can't afford both at the moment.
Firstly I know how turbos work I'm not sure about rollers. With rollers you obviously have to concentrate more and it is good for balance, but once you are spinning what else do you do/ what do you gain? Is there some way of changing the resistance.
Firstly I know how turbos work I'm not sure about rollers. With rollers you obviously have to concentrate more and it is good for balance, but once you are spinning what else do you do/ what do you gain? Is there some way of changing the resistance.
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I love that link. And okay searching google probably wasn't such a bad idea :oops: Just thought I'd tap into all your knowledge and first hand experience.
(How do you use the search facility on this site. Even when I look in particular sections I never seem to find what I am looking for and everyone else seems to be able to pull out the precise link.
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I love that link. And okay searching google probably wasn't such a bad idea :oops: Just thought I'd tap into all your knowledge and first hand experience.
(How do you use the search facility on this site. Even when I look in particular sections I never seem to find what I am looking for and everyone else seems to be able to pull out the precise link. 0 -
LOL, yeah it's been discussed a few times here There's a search function within the forum, top right. But not the one right at the top right - that's for the rest of bikeradar!-- Dirk Hofman Motorhomes --0
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Would anybody recommend any particular roller or advise to stay well away from a particular type of roller? IS the ability to chance resistance really important? Are convex rollers cheating or actually very sensible?0
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De Sisti wrote:How about trying a set of these rollers from insideride.com
Inside Ride apparently sold the licence to produce these rollers to "ELITE"
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=elit ... hl=en&aq=f0 -
If I was able to have only one, I'd go with the turbo simply because when you are doing really hard intervals, having to concentrate on staying upright is an added complication you can do without.Teach wrote:IS the ability to chance resistance really important?
Rollers are good for improving your balance and pedalling technique and also for race warmup etc, but I don't think that would be enough to justify having them over a turbo.
If you do decide to go with rollers only, then yes a set with variable resistance will be more useful than those without.0 -
you don't need resistance on rollers - if you want to work harder, shift into the next gear....0
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softlad wrote:you don't need resistance on rollers - if you want to work harder, shift into the next gear....
Not sure. 50:12 puts me at about 38 mph on the turbo and its not enough to max out on HR
I enjoy the rollers and wouldn't be without them but the turbo is better for those "I'm gonna puke" sessions0 -
Teach wrote:Would anybody recommend any particular roller or advise to stay well away from a particular type of roller? IS the ability to chance resistance really important? Are convex rollers cheating or actually very sensible?
If you can ride convex rollers, I'd be *very* impressed!0 -
andrewgturnbull wrote:Teach wrote:Would anybody recommend any particular roller or advise to stay well away from a particular type of roller? IS the ability to chance resistance really important? Are convex rollers cheating or actually very sensible?
If you can ride convex rollers, I'd be *very* impressed!
I'm glad you are impressed at my cycling ability and not my typing ability :twisted: :oops: :roll:0
