Rollers

Thanks. I'm primarily doing this for the track, so I'll use the track bike.

So. Resistance Rollers or without. Talk to me.
For both fixed and Geared use through this winter.

No one? @mdcc_tester?

If I wanted to do resistance training I'd probably zone out on a turbo trainer, to me rollers are more for training cadence and handling. But If I were able to get my hands on a resistance unit for my Tacx Antares I'd sure give it a try.

Depends how much resistance you want. You can generate a fair bit of resistance with gears and lowering tyre psi, but turbo is always going to provide more. Also if you're interested in MAX max efforts a turbo is safer.

I've never used resistance rollers though so..

I have a turbo, but its too loud to come up with me to hospital accomodation.
Rollers are a decent enough sound reduction.
Also easier pre-race with different bikes.
And more fun. I've never used resisted ones, just hoping someone had.

I remember @BringMeMyFix telling me about how he had modified his tacx rollers with a small piece of plastic to add resistance. Can't remember how though.

Appalling recall all round, Dan, but I suppose I should clarify as you’ve dragged me here with an @lert.

• I have the Cycleops rollers (rebranded Sportcrafters).
  
• I have the old style magnetic bar attachment with an ‘off’ position, plus 5 steps of resistance, but have since started using an alternative (see further down list)
  
• I do my high cadence stuff on the roads (as @dan would testify, because it’s the kind of spectacle that overpowers his handicapped powers of recall).
  
• I’m not fond of the turbo, and my wife’s monopolised it.
  
• To get reasonable resistance for half hour ‘rides’ at 85-115rpm while keeping the speed restricted to avoid vibrations (using 48x16), I am now the proud owner of a progressive roller drum which fits the bill nicely. The resistance curve ramps up fairly quickly. I’m only doing it for general middle aged keep fit these days.
  
  

Wow, a post.

Genuine lol. I miss your posts. Apologies for appalling memory.

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There is a fix for the noisy bearings.

Made perfect sense revisiting 2yrs on.

http://microcosm.app/out/TwPdg

Also useful.

The difference new bearings £18 and Medium Lock £4 has made is fantastic, there was a proper noisy rattle before now gone. Cheers!

do you tend to get a stupidly high average speed on rollers, or do I need to look at how my gsc10 speed sensor is calibrated. https://www.strava.com/activities/286703497

Defo your gsc10

Probably needs more chips.

do you tend to get a stupidly high average speed on rollers, or do I need to look at how my gsc10 speed sensor is calibrated.

Unless you have a 75 tooth chainring and are running 11 and 12 tooth sprockets the numbers don't make sense. With a cadence of 88 RPM you will need that kind of gearing to be able to average 67 kmh with 700c wheels. It looks like it screwed up between miles and km. If you did 5.4km it could almost make sense: ~40 kmh

While this thread's active, I'll politely point people in the direction of my versatile rollers setup that's currently for sale.

There is an interested party who would have first dibs, but no confirmed buyer as yet.