Cycle trainer!!!!

Benz carrera

Hello I was just wondering if you can use any cycle trainer with a mountain bike I have a carrera Vulcan (2012) thanks

craigw99

yep but it will be noisey

cooldad

And you get special hard tyres for road bikes - will eat up a knobbly.
Nothing more boring I can think of - just get some warm gear, MTFU and go for a ride.

Stu Coops

If you going to use a mountain bike on a trainer buy a slick tyre

evo3ben

Yes it will work but must ensure that a turbo trainer skewer comes with the turbo as the one on your bike at the moment wont be ideal and will get ruined.
Ideally you will want a turbo specific tyre http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... tedKingdom to replace your nobbly tire. If not then a smooth standard tyre will do just not last as long as a turbo specific tyre. And very importantly (for me anyway) music on an phone or ipod and headphones to help kill the boredom 8)

ddraver

And you need to buy/steal the Sufferfest videos if you don't want to get mindnumbingly bored....

cat_with_no_tail

I've got mine set up in the garage with a spare wheel attached with a turbo tyre on there all the time. Much easier than faffing about changing the tyre.

Was great while I was recovering from surgery, just to get the legs working again and back to some semblence of fitness.

Still use it pretty regularly, especially now we're coming into winter. I still find it to be a good training tool.

As said above though, I either use the ipod or wireless earphones hooked up to the laptop to stop the boredom from killing me.

Oh, and be prepared for the fact you will sweat buckets!