Turbo Trainer Advice

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mdle

How much better of an experience is a fixed smart trainer versus rollers with a power meter?
I've been using tacx galaxia rollers for a year now and quite enjoy putting in 30-40 minutes on them, but starting to feel like I'm missing out on this whole zwift gamification. Getting a power meter would be a nice bike upgrade but I presume it's a shit experience in zwift when the only way I can add resistance is gearing up?

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Sumo in reply to @mdle

The major difference is you can't adjust resistance with rollers, that and if you go too deep you can fall off them. I wouldn't be able to replicate my turbo training on rollers because there isn't a way of putting in more effort, just spinning faster.

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mdle in reply to @Sumo

Thanks for this. I think the safety aspect is a good point, whenever I do sprints on the rollers I have to hold back to avoid falling off.
Think a proper smart trainer is the way forward and probably more economical than getting into the power meter feature/accuracy contest.
That tacx neo though...

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