Indoor / Turbo Trainer Wheel Advice

jinky32

Hi,

I'm a bit of a newbie so hoping someone can help me learn!

I have a London Road Cyclocross bike from Planet X http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNRIV ... -road-bike and am getting a CycleOps Fluid off ebay for Xmas!

I would like to get a new rear wheel for training but struggling to find something affordable.

I have 11 speed SRAM with disk brakes (6 bolt I believe). Wiggle have recommended http://www.wiggle.co.uk/mavic-aksium-disc-rear-wheel/ which is a little more than i can afford (need to take into account, rear cassette, disk, tyre and inner tube too I guess). Evans recommended https://www.evanscycles.com/shimano-rs1 ... l-EV202634 which I'm not 100% is compatible.

Any advice much appreciated!

Alex99

jinky32 wrote:

Hi,

I'm a bit of a newbie so hoping someone can help me learn!

I have a London Road Cyclocross bike from Planet X http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNRIV ... -road-bike and am getting a CycleOps Fluid off ebay for Xmas!

I would like to get a new rear wheel for training but struggling to find something affordable.

I have 11 speed SRAM with disk brakes (6 bolt I believe). Wiggle have recommended http://www.wiggle.co.uk/mavic-aksium-disc-rear-wheel/ which is a little more than i can afford (need to take into account, rear cassette, disk, tyre and inner tube too I guess). Evans recommended https://www.evanscycles.com/shimano-rs1 ... l-EV202634 which I'm not 100% is compatible.

Any advice much appreciated!

Hi, if it's purely for use on the turbo, then you don't even need a disc brake wheel. Any wheel of the right size will do fine. Yo need to measure the distance between the dropouts where the wheel fits (or get the measurement from the Planet x page on the frame). It will be 130 or 135 mm. Get a wheel to match. Any very basic wheel will be fine for the turbo. You should get something for about £50 or less. Consider second hand.

fenix

Personally I just use the wheel i have on the bike. My turbo doesn't destroy tyres.

At least try that first before spending.

jinky32

Thanks for the quick reply guys.

@Alex99, it's 135mm. I can't get close to under £50 - I can see http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-rs010-c ... ear-wheel/ on wiggle which may be OK?

timothyw

The RS010 is no good for you - it has 130mm 'Over Locknut Distance' (or OLD) - in laymans terms the width of the frame where the wheels fit.

You need wheels with 135mm OLD, but you also need 11 speed cassette compatibility, and this drives up the price somewhat as it is a relatively new standard.

The equivalent shimano product that you could use is the 'RX010' - so for example they have it on Evans here:
https://www.evanscycles.com/shimano-rx0 ... l-EV253054

In the long run you might be better off getting a complete RX010 wheelset (including the front wheel) as then you'll have a spare set if anything happens to your other wheels.

So by that argument, the Gipiemme set on Planet X might be worth stretching to:
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/WPGIROEQ/g ... c-wheelset
Slightly cheaper than an rx010 set.

If you only had 10 speed gears at the back you could be really cheap and get one of these:
https://www.evanscycles.com/fisher-700c ... l-00101470
But you don't.... This is the problem with being cutting edge ;-)

I'm struggling to think of another option. I think you're either going to have to bite the bullet, or just use your existing wheels.

One thing to say is, don't get a brake rotor for your turbo wheel - don't brake when you're on the turbo - the risk is that the sudden change of speed will damage the internals.

jinky32

@TimothyW - thanks for the advice! I'm actually running the Gipiemme on my bike atm - so it may be worth getting a new wheelset (this always happens when I start off small - I'll probably end up with a new bike at this rate!).

Out of interest if i have no brake rotor and i do hit the rear brake what actually happens?

timothyw

Well, with cable disc brakes, very little.

With Hydraulic disc brakes, the pads will squeeze together, stay there and you'll find it very hard to get your proper wheel back in, so it might be a good idea to get some kind of spacer to sit in the caliper and prevent this happening.

I think there are professional products available to do this, but this chap suggests using a coin and a bit of tape, and also explains the problem perhaps better than I have:
http://blog.nadnerb.co.uk/?p=107

jinky32

haha that's awesome, good find.

Now I need to buy a flight to Australia to 20 cent coin! :P

Alex99

jinky32 wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply guys.

@Alex99, it's 135mm. I can't get close to under £50 - I can see http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-rs010-c ... ear-wheel/ on wiggle which may be OK?

Well, a mountain bike wheel is also an option with 135 mm spacing. But, as you're on 11 speed, perhaps you won't find anything super cheap. Turbos don't really shred tyres anyway. So maybe just use what you've got and replace the tyre marginally earlier.

jinky32

@Alex99 is that true? Most of the stuff I've read on here say that tyres do get shredded. Makes a big difference to me if that's not the case!

paul_the_pedaller

When I used a turbo in anger I used my usual wheels with a Conti Supersport tyre, didn't wear any more then on the road and the advantage to me was that there was no constant wheel swapping to train indoors or outdoors. Try your existing setup and if you suffer excessive wear think about spare wheels then IMHO.

fenix

Pretty sure I told the OP that my turbo doesn't shred tyres and i use it heavily from time to time...

Also a lot of people buy turbos and don't use them for long enough to get any tyre wear....

fat daddy

mine doesn't shred tyres .. but since fitting gp4000's they make a terrible racket. I use a rs010 with a trainer tyre on it just to shut the damn thing up again

the gp4000s get hot as well

Alex99

jinky32 wrote:

@Alex99 is that true? Most of the stuff I've read on here say that tyres do get shredded. Makes a big difference to me if that's not the case!

Yes, but probably depends on the tyre somewhat. I've got a continental gatorskin 28 mm that just won't give up. It's about 10 years old, been commuted on, and done many hours on the turbo. Also been using a Vittoria Rubino Pro 3 that seems to be holding up fine. They're both in the 'tough training tyre' category. I wouldn't use a light proper racing tyre on it.