Turbo Trainer Advice

Floor mat - wise Lidl have 8 x 41cm x 43cm x 0.8cm interlocking mats for £6.99 instore from tomorrow with foam rollers, kettle balls, resistance band £4.99-£6.99 for your cross training needs. Pg 10 onwards

https://media.lidl-flyer.com/07ad79b1-4ac0-11eb-9bd1-005056ae4067/07-01-13-01-Lidl-Weekly-01.pdf

I used to use these, they are fine.

good tip. foam roller time

Sounds like it's too soft to withstand a wheeled office chair? Trying to find something I can leave in front of my desk/PC for both day work and evening turbo mode.

Have a wooden floor so I need to have some kind of protection for the boards under the chair anyway, but the carpet offcut I use now is not ideal for turbo sweat.

Are second hand Kickrs worth a punt or are they a minefield?

I’ve heard enough stories about warranty replacements to make me wary but there’s one available locally for a decent price.

1 x 11 on a turbo.
Does any one out there?

Did 1x10 for a year or two on a dumb turbo. Fine. Now - 1x11 on a kickr but one doesn’t change gear so it could be single speed and it wouldn’t matter.

1 x 11 on a turbo.

Does any one out there?

Yes for a long while with a dumb trainer but the wheel had an 11-23 cassette to avoid big jumps. 11-36 was annoying.

40x 11-28 on a direct drive smart trainer, because that's the only spare cassette I had.

Works fine with Zwift.

Probably worth it - would have thought if it was going to require warrantying then it would have gone wrong fairly early on its lifespan. At least I had good luck with a 2nd gen kickr that got me through first lockdown and was much better than equivalent price cheap new turbo. Older ones are noisier though.
Also imagine turbo prices have gone crazy again so if it's a good price I'd go for it.

On a dumb trainer?

Cores have been in and out of stock this week on Wahoo’s own shop. Might be worth checking every now and then. I managed to get one on Monday.

me too... hopefully delivery doesn't get fscked by brexit/covid

I've been running a 2nd hand kickr for like 3 years, no problems so far and I do a fair amount of turbo.

Ace, thanks man

Thanks for the 1 x 11 validations!

Thanks and @ad441

He’s sold it now. Things seem to be going nuts again.

Kickr core in and out of stock. Halfords have got Elite Diretos available from next week which might be an option.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with my old fluid turbo plus PM but I’m tiring of constantly having to find my own resistance anywhere between 80 and 100rpm.

FYI - I used this site for stock alerts https://www.bikesnipe.co.uk/

That's a shame. My turbo buying advice is have a load of saved searches on ebay and hope someone lists one for an unusually cheap price as a buy it now - got a bargain Tacx Neo a few weeks back this this way. People don't always check sold prices before listing. But that takes a lot of patience.
I do really recommend a trainer with ERG mode. I never thought I was the sort of person who'd get into indoor training, but given the past year it's done a lot to keep me sane.

My Shiv

On a dumb trainer?

I'm going to guess yes.
And then I'm going to guess "I don't race on Zwift"

Went to Lidl, didnt have any trainer mats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp09Sdrw2W4

Yes.

FluidPro, Computrainer and KICKR.