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Never heard of them, just looked it up. You mean one of these:
Looks like a ridiculous piece of junk. Ive started training this winter and have done a lot of research. Really, you can do a full workout at home/outdoors with no special equipment.
Weights are useful if you want to bulk up with powerful muscles for sprinting. If so always use FREE WEIGHTS and NO LIFTING belt. Take your time to condition yourself with core strength excercises (regular push-ups can do wonders) and hone your lifting technique before trying anything heavy.
Free weights will aid in developing all round co-ordination & stability, which are the same things I expect the plate trainer promotes itself as.
But for general fitness & cycling, yoga/pilates style floor excercises combined with press-ups, pull-ups, leg raises etc and plyometric excercises such as jump squats as well as liberal stretching is really all you need.
When riding your bike (ideally fixed) aim to ride as fast as practical all the time, and whenever you see clear smooth road, sprint like a mofo. The fact that you will continue riding as moderate speed after sprinting instead of freewheeling re-creates an ideal interval training scenario.