Wheel carriers - not for Bike Boxes

Muffintop

I have a tourer currently equiped with a back basket rack and a pair of panniers. There's a group of cyclists who meet up for some Turbo training sessions and you're expected to bring your own turbo training equipment. I have all the gear but it's not practical for me to drive. I could possibly just gaffa tape my turbo onto my basket at the back but I have no idea how to shift a skinny smoothe tire. It'd either be the turbo or the tire that would go in the basket not both - and the turbo would be a begger to attach anywhere else.

I could just remove a pannier and gaffatape the wheel but I want a more permenant solution.

Cheers
Mx

Monty Dog

Make yourself a wheel-carrier bracket for your front wheel or find one at a bike jumble:

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/co ... rrier.html

amaferanga

Just use your turbo at home and skip the male bonding session?

ilm_zero7

amaferanga wrote:

Just use your turbo at home and skip the male bonding session?

exactly!

cougie

Turbos are usually bloody heavy. I'd not want that on my bike throwing the balance off.
I've never swapped tyres for a turbo session either but I do run smoothing tyres on my bikes that go on the turbo.

lawrences

If it's suitable weather to cycle to your turbo session then why are you training on a turbo?
how about you just leave the turbo and the back wheel at home and ermm go cycling?

Muffintop

amaferanga wrote:

Just use your turbo at home and skip the male bonding session?

1. Anything to make the turbo more interesting

2. Any excuse to look wrecked in front of others.

3. Meeting new folk would be good. I'm trying to find a cycle club/outing group so I can get used to cycling in large groups.

lawrences wrote:

If it's suitable weather to cycle to your turbo session then why are you training on a turbo?
how about you just leave the turbo and the back wheel at home and ermm go cycling?

Too dark. It's one thing to cycle 15-20 minutes in the dark along well lit streets in the p!ssing rain, quite another down country lanes in poor vis where folk in massive motors are in a rush to get home on tight corners they can't see round.

I've got a race bike and a commuting bike. My racing bike is normally on the turbo but I can't carry anything on it (and I don't really fancy having to clean and dry a tyre before using it with the turbo). My commuting bikes a tourer and I've carried all sorts on it in all sorts of conditions so I'm fairly confident I'd be all right with the heavy turbo on the back.

Thanks for your comments all. Might try and make a wheel carrier.

Mx


Mx

mroli

I've often just strapped a wheel onto my back and carried out that way. If you have it on the outside of say a backpack or courier bag, it won't dig into you and is not terribly uncomfortable (and use the compression straps/a couple of bungy cords to attach it to the bag). I would attach at rim, not individual spokes though... If you're not going too far, it's not a bad way of doing it - but remember, you are a bit wider than you normally are.