Rollers

dreamlx10

I am looking for opinions as to the "best" rollers to buy, quite a lot out there at different prices. I would appreciate any info from roller owners.

P_Tucker

The best rollers to buy are the ones that I bought. See below for similar responses.

joeyhalloran

http://www.kreitler.co.uk/

these are meant to be pretty good (never ridden them myself). I have only had one pair of rollers are they are great, I fail to see how rollers 3x the price could be all that much better.

joeyhalloran

http://www.kreitler.co.uk/

these are meant to be pretty good (never ridden them myself). I have only had one pair of rollers are they are great, I fail to see how rollers 3x the price could be all that much better.

dreamlx10

The best rollers to buy are the ones that I bought. See below for similar responses.

Very helpful, thanks !

Herbsman

P_Tucker wrote:

The best rollers to buy are the ones that I bought. See below for similar responses.

Eddy S

The "best" rollers are ones with aluminium drums (for the quality of the ride and noise level) and with a resistance unit (to make them a total and useful training device).

Minoura (the standard model is good but no resistance unit - unfortunately their model with resistance isn’t imported), JetBlack (but again no resistance unit available) CycleOps, Kreitler and Inside-Ride Emotion (although there is now no UK importer and they cost a fortune to ship from the US) all fit the bill.

I've got Minouras for track warm-up duty and E-Motions for training. I've stopped using my plastic drum rollers.

dreamlx10

Thanks for that, I'm considering the kreitlers, they seem to be popular and reassuringly expensive.

tugger

I bought some rollers last month and I really enjoy using them, i havent quite got to spending loads of time on them, I have managed comfortable half hour stints so far, however I find the resistence thin interesting.

I have a shimano 105 gearing and while I spend most of my time in the top 3 gears I find the resistance really good for maintaining a steady cadance with a decent amount of resistance. Should I be looking to push a bigger resistance?

Tghe rollers I have are jet blacks, i think they are good, but i have no bench mark

Herbsman

If you want to be able to ride harder, you will have to ride harder!

If you feel there's not enough resistance then of course increase it somehow.

Tom Butcher

I find the resistance on a normal set of Tacx rollers fine - unless you want to do short sprints or big gear work on them I don't think you need extra resistance - I'd probably fall off them if I started doing balls out sprints anyway. I can certainly do 20 minute intervals as hard as I can sustain on them with a standard double chainset.

rundle

What people often overlook with rollers is that you can increase or decrease the resistance of your workout, at will, by just changing the pressure in your tires.

Want more resistance? let some air out of the tires.

de_sisti

I've got these:
but should have bought something cheaper, like these:

redjeepǃ

I've got the Tacx Antares which I'm happy with. I've nothing to compare them against as I've never been on any other type.

I keep thinking about getting the resistance unit, but typically go on the turbo if I want to do an interval sessions and use the rollers more for balance.

I'm chuffed tonight as I managed to go handsfree for the first time ever and did over 10minutes nonestop.

Herbsman

So chuffed you started a seperate thread about it!