Carbon bike on a turbo ?

Dudders29
Dudders29 Posts: 171
edited December 2013 in Training, fitness and health
I am probably being a complete wuss, but is my nice carbon bike gonna get damaged on a turbo ?
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    only if you hit it with a hammer...
  • StillGoing
    StillGoing Posts: 5,211
    Imposter wrote:
    only if you hit it with a hammer...

    +1 I use a carbon framed bike on the turbo and do out of the seat sprint intervals and climbs with whatever session I'm doing.
    I ride a bike. Doesn't make me green or a tree hugger. I drive a car too.
  • meesterbond
    meesterbond Posts: 1,240
    Yep, same here.
    I was even using an 80mm Carbon Tub wheelset until I final got round to swapping it out the other day.
  • BrandonA
    BrandonA Posts: 553
    I use my S-Works Venge on my Wahoo Kickr.

    Most intervals or virtual rides I perform are performed whilst seated. I'm a little reluctant to stand in case I damage the frame but when seated I'm confident that the frame is secure and will not get damaged.

    Before I bought by Kickr, I too used to use my carbon deep section wheels on my Tacx.
  • phil s
    phil s Posts: 1,128
    Jesus wept, not this sh1t again
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  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Buckles wrote:
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.

    Not sure if serious....
  • ut_och_cykla
    ut_och_cykla Posts: 1,594
    surely if it won't stand turbo use it won't stand a full out sprint? German magazine concluded forces involved are far greater on the road than on a turbo. but you could always get a second bike...
  • Stu Coops
    Stu Coops Posts: 426
    Buckles wrote:
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.

    Oh right so the frame snapped on the road due to using it on the turbo, that makes soooooo much sense NOT Jesus where do these people come from
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  • bahzob
    bahzob Posts: 2,195
    +1 to the np camp. I've been using Specialized Tarmac on a turbo for ages and not a single issue. Just do the obvious, do as much as possible with towels to catch sweat and wipe down after use.

    One thing worth getting is a thong.. Not for you, that would cause chaffing, but the bike...
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    I wouldn't stand up out out of saddle on turbo. They put very unnatrual pressures on the bike. But seated fine.
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  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Imposter wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.

    Not sure if serious....
    Of course I'm serious! Look

    BQv8gQxCIAA0W3t.jpg

    This bike was used on the turbo NUMEROUS times before its death

    CARBON does NOT belong on the turbo!
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    still not sure if serious...
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Stu Coops wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.

    Oh right so the frame snapped on the road due to using it on the turbo, that makes soooooo much sense NOT Jesus where do these people come from

    Take the mickey all you want, you have been warned

    BQv4yVXCAAAGm6a.jpg:large
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  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    Buckles wrote:
    Stu Coops wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    AVOID. My mate regularly used his carbon bike on a turbo and then a few weeks afterwards, during a race, the frame snapped. Just goes to show carbon bikes and turbos don't mix.

    Oh right so the frame snapped on the road due to using it on the turbo, that makes soooooo much sense NOT Jesus where do these people come from

    Take the mickey all you want, you have been warned

    BQv4yVXCAAAGm6a.jpg:large
    Come on Columbo (or is it Miss Marple?), please explain to us how you know that a frame breakage that occured during a road race was wholly the result of being used on a turbo
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Look it's not just this one it's happened to loads of people I know, ask Ade at Sprocket Cycles, he has had numerous cracked carbon frames brought to him for replacement as a result of being used on the turbo.

    One chap used his carbon framed bike on the turbo all winter and then one day when descending the Col de Turini he fell and the bike slid onto the other side of the road and went under a van. Luckily he was fine but the bike was completely destroyed bar a few nuts and bolts.

    Be as skeptical or dismissive as you want, it's your teeth you're risking, and many of the people who used their carbon bikes on turbo trainers have not lived to tell the tale.
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  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Read some of these topics for example and you'll find out. Carbon + turbo = death
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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    Did these folk all do out of the saddle sprints all winter?

    I've been using a carbon bike on a turbo for years and I'm still alive. Am I just lucky?
    More problems but still living....
  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    Buckles wrote:
    Look it's not just this one it's happened to loads of people I know, ask Ade at Sprocket Cycles, he has had numerous cracked carbon frames brought to him for replacement as a result of being used on the turbo.

    One chap used his carbon framed bike on the turbo all winter and then one day when descending the Col de Turini he fell and the bike slid onto the other side of the road and went under a van. Luckily he was fine but the bike was completely destroyed bar a few nuts and bolts.

    Be as skeptical or dismissive as you want, it's your teeth you're risking, and many of the people who used their carbon bikes on turbo trainers have not lived to tell the tale.
    Quick someone get a bucket! There's crap pouring out of every orifice! :shock: :lol::lol:

    Not a shred of evidence just hyperbole generated from the word of a bloke in a shop. :lol::lol:
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    Buckles wrote:
    Read some of these topics for example and you'll find out. Carbon + turbo = death

    WTF? Those topics show nothing of the sort!
    More problems but still living....
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Buckles wrote:
    One chap used his carbon framed bike on the turbo all winter and then one day when descending the Col de Turini he fell and the bike slid onto the other side of the road and went under a van. Luckily he was fine but the bike was completely destroyed bar a few nuts and bolts.

    Nothing to do with the bike going under a van then? Seriously, this has got to be a wind-up...
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Imposter wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    One chap used his carbon framed bike on the turbo all winter and then one day when descending the Col de Turini he fell and the bike slid onto the other side of the road and went under a van. Luckily he was fine but the bike was completely destroyed bar a few nuts and bolts.

    Nothing to do with the bike going under a van then? Seriously, this has got to be a wind-up...
    Would he have fallen if he hadn't used the bike on the turbo?

    Would the van have destroyed the frame if he hadn't extensively weakened it by using it on the turbo trainer?
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    Buckles there are countless people using their bikes on turbos (carbon ones) that have zero issues.
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  • BillyMansell
    BillyMansell Posts: 817
    Buckles wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    One chap used his carbon framed bike on the turbo all winter and then one day when descending the Col de Turini he fell and the bike slid onto the other side of the road and went under a van. Luckily he was fine but the bike was completely destroyed bar a few nuts and bolts.

    Nothing to do with the bike going under a van then? Seriously, this has got to be a wind-up...
    Would he have fallen if he hadn't used the bike on the turbo?
    By your own statement he fell off before the bike it was broken and turbo use was not relevant to the accident. When you start proving your own view wrong it's probably time to stop digging that hole.
    Would the van have destroyed the frame if he hadn't extensively weakened it by using it on the turbo trainer?
    Again you've no evidence. Best you stop with the BS.
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    okgo wrote:
    Buckles there are countless people using their bikes on turbos (carbon ones) that have zero issues.
    Zero issues... SO FAR.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Buckles wrote:
    Would the van have destroyed the frame if he hadn't extensively weakened it by using it on the turbo trainer?

    Would a van destroy a carbon frame by driving over it? Almost certainly. You cannot possibly know if the frame was 'extensively weakened' beforehand. TBH, you are usually fairly level with your posts here - has someone hijacked your account?
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Look it's your choice what you do with your bike, I'm only trying to warn you.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Buckles wrote:
    Look it's your choice what you do with your bike, I'm only trying to warn you.

    Your warning would be more credible if you actually had some valid evidence to support it.
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Imposter wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    Look it's your choice what you do with your bike, I'm only trying to warn you.

    Your warning would be more credible if you actually had some valid evidence to support it.
    The pictures I've posted are all the evidence you need.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Buckles wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    Buckles wrote:
    Look it's your choice what you do with your bike, I'm only trying to warn you.

    Your warning would be more credible if you actually had some valid evidence to support it.
    The pictures I've posted are all the evidence you need.

    Pics of broken bikes are not evidence that they have been weakened by turbos - they are just pics of broken bikes.

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