Which Turbo Trainer?

tailwindhome

itboffin wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

<A lot of bluster>


Let battle commence.

Now why throw down a challenge like that eh!?

Hmmm, first step for me would be to acquire a turbo trainer.

I've spoken to Santa and promised I'd be a good boy next year. So I need some buying advice

I'm aiming for about the £100 mark so options from our good friends at WIggle are

Cycle Ops Classic Mag £127 (this weekend)
Cycle Ops Classic Wind £127(this weekend)
Elite Crono Mag £111
Elite Volare Mag £101

Any thoughts or alternatives?


http://www.wiggle.co.uk/turbo-trainers-accessories/

PBo

nah.

this is a commuting forum. no turbos required to get to work.

get yourself to the training forum on "road" or something.....

cjcp

See if you can get one second hand on the Wanted section - I bought JG's Cyclops Wind. Does the job perfectly.

tailwindhome

cjcp wrote:

See if you can get one second hand on the Wanted section - I bought JG's Cyclops Wind. Does the job perfectly.

What's the noise level like?

Could I use it with the kids asleep upstairs?

tailwindhome

PBo wrote:

nah.

this is a commuting forum. no turbos required to get to work.

get yourself to the training forum on "road" or something.....

You're just bitter because you can't build a snowman for your son.

To adress your point though, commuting to work by bike is a occasional treat for me. It's too far away to do regularly and won't be happening in this weather. I do however stay in this forum (mainly) as it offers the best all round cycling related advice and discussion with a good supply of random banter too.

I just like cycling.

jonginge

TailWindHome wrote:

cjcp wrote:

See if you can get one second hand on the Wanted section - I bought JG's Cyclops Wind. Does the job perfectly.

What's the noise level like?

Could I use it with the kids asleep upstairs?

The one I sold to CJ was a fluid 2.

The wind will likely be very loud. I'd go for the mag at that price point. Also some turbos can shred rear tyres so a dedicated trainer tyre may be a good idea. They also cut down the noise levels

jonginge

TailWindHome wrote:

PBo wrote:

nah.

this is a commuting forum. no turbos required to get to work.

get yourself to the training forum on "road" or something.....

You're just bitter because you can't build a snowman for your son.

To adress your point though, commuting to work by bike is a occasional treat for me. It's too far away to do regularly and won't be happening in this weather. I do however stay in this forum (mainly) as it offers the best all round cycling related advice and discussion with a good supply of random banter too.

I just like cycling.

Turbo is the perfect warmup for SCR, no?

In other news: JG is quite competitive :twisted:

PBo

TailWindHome wrote:

PBo wrote:

nah.

this is a commuting forum. no turbos required to get to work.

get yourself to the training forum on "road" or something.....

You're just bitter because you can't build a snowman for your son.

too right!

To adress your point though.......

no need to, was just joshing, and I too know that you can get advice on most things here

PBo

PBo wrote:

nah.

this is a commuting forum. no turbos required to get to work.

Just been re-thinking this.

could you rig up bike and a fan-based Turbo on a sledge, and use the breeze from the fan to propel the sledge over the ice, bit like those things that they use on everglade swamps...

Actually, no - wont the breeze be perpendicular to direction of travel? So a sail needs to be rigged up for the breeze to blow across....

sorted!

I'll use my bike/turbo/sail/sledge device to slide around Sheffield knocking everyone elses snowmen down.....

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

cjcp wrote:

See if you can get one second hand on the Wanted section - I bought JG's Cyclops Wind. Does the job perfectly.

What's the noise level like?

Could I use it with the kids asleep upstairs?

The one I sold to CJ was a fluid 2.

The wind will likely be very loud. I'd go for the mag at that price point. Also some turbos can shred rear tyres so a dedicated trainer tyre may be a good idea. They also cut down the noise levels

Was it?! Looks like the wind. Shows how much I know. TWH, ignore everything I say. :oops:

Zachariah

I'n taking delivery of the Elite Crono Mag from Wiggle this week (hopefully - full story to come later). Will let you know how that goes.

itboffin

If you happen to have a large piece of cardboard available I'd suggest you stick it on the floor under your turbo set up, not that I give a damn about the noise but it has reduced the overall racket, so I can lower the music volume which gets a thumbs up from little itboffin whilst she's watching the usually rubbish children's TV

cjcp

I had a Mag about a couple of years ago. I don't remember thinking the noise level was particularly bad; I used to use it while Mrs CJ was watching the TV.