How to set up Turbo?

larkim

Borrowed a turbo from a friend (a minoura Mag 850) but not entirely sure how to set it up properly - particularly how hard to press the tyre against the roller.

From the stickered instructions on the turbo, it says to leave a 2mm gap between tyre and roller, and then depress the plastic right at the back of the roller to bring the roller upwards in contact with the tyre. But that appears to give almost no connection between the roller and the tyre, so I'm clearly doing something wrong. Last night I had a go simply winding the adjustment screw upwards so that the roller and tyre were clearly in contact (it flattended out perhaps 2-3mm of the tyre width-wise) and that seemed to give me the sort of resistance in the roller that I was expecting.

Is that right?

Matt

MikeWW

You want relatively light contact between the roller and the tyre but enough to ensure the wheel doesn't slip.

supermurph09

Spin the wheel, if it spins for more than 5 seconds then tighten a bit more.