Good pro trainer?

heres the link to it http://www.cycle-ops.com/c-6-trainers.aspx?skinid=2 i'm thinking of getting the fluid2

Cycler6n said:

I'm getting my first pro trainer, and I'm going to get the highest level cycleops, its like 325$, anyone know any info on this one? Or another really good on? Can you change the bearings on them?

Why?! You get week long blizzards upstate?

You can replace the bearings if you have an arbor press.

You might want to consider getting rollers. They are better on the bike, helps your balance, and also teaches you how important it is to hold your line.🙄

kdelong said:

Why?! You get week long blizzards upstate?

You can replace the bearings if you have an arbor press.

You might want to consider getting rollers. They are better on the bike, helps your balance, and also teaches you how important it is to hold your line.🙄

thx, yeah, we get months where theres a lot of snow, can't ride, to slick/cold, and for when it rains, whats a roller by the way?

Get a Kurt Kinetic instead. Do some searches....the overwhelming majority think the Kurt Kinetic is the best.

It's about the same price. I have one - it's pretty good.

Cycler6n said:

thx, yeah, we get months where theres a lot of snow, can't ride, to slick/cold, and for when it rains, whats a roller by the way?

Rollers are sort of a treademill for bicycles. With rollers, you really ride the bike instead of having something holding you up and just pedaling. The only stress on the bike are the natural stresses that you put on it each time that you ride, that is as long as you don't ride off the rollers. I'm sure someone has a good story about that! You also don't feel like you are riding downhill all of the time. There is a picture of what rollers look like in this link:

hscycle.comkreitlerrollers.htmlOpen ↗

Kreiter makes some good rollers but there are a lot of other brands out there. The belt from one of the back rollers to the front roller keeps your front wheel rolling the same as it would if you were riding the bike. Rollers take a little more concentration but they usually improves ones skill level more than a standard resistance trainer.

kdelong said:

Rollers are sort of a treademill for bicycles. With rollers, you really ride the bike instead of having something holding you up and just pedaling. The only stress on the bike are the natural stresses that you put on it each time that you ride, that is as long as you don't ride off the rollers. I'm sure someone has a good story about that! You also don't feel like you are riding downhill all of the time. There is a picture of what rollers look like in this link:

hscycle.comkreitlerrollers.htmlOpen ↗

Kreiter makes some good rollers but there are a lot of other brands out there. The belt from one of the back rollers to the front roller keeps your front wheel rolling the same as it would if you were riding the bike. Rollers take a little more concentration but they usually improves ones skill level more than a standard resistance trainer.

Thx for your help! I checked out rollers, very interesting, have you used one before, and would you personally recomend it?😕

When you see the TdF guys warming up before a race, are they on rollers? No.

Yojimbo_ said:

When you see the TdF guys warming up before a race, are they on rollers? No.

That is true, never thought of that

Rollers help you develop a good spinning motion while your actually ON the bike, and they help develop coordination muscles as well. You can practice getting your water bottle out faster, etc.

Trainers are just there and you pedal away with no movement of the bike (well, negligible movement) and are pretty boring, id rather be stuck on an exercise bike personally. I do have a cycle-ops fluid 2, a little older than the current version, and it is a good feeling trainer, much better than my previous wind trainer. I hope i can use it this winter but we'll see. I do have cycling shorts now so it should be more comfortable to use one. 🙂

good luck in your search...

Cycler6n said:

Thx for your help! I checked out rollers, very interesting, have you used one before, and would you personally recomend it?😕

I have used both and the rollers work best for me. I am usually concentrating on staying on them that my practice sessions just fly by. Trainers are pretty boring unless you park the bike in front of a TV and adjust the volume up.

The reason that you don't see the TDF riders on rollers is that rollers are not as portable as a trainer. Anyway, I seriously doubt that I'll ever ride in a TDF so I'll stick what works best for me which are my rollers.

Yojimbo_ said:

When you see the TdF guys warming up before a race, are they on rollers? No.

That's because rollers are much more taxing than a trainer, since it requires your body to use more stabilizer muscles, etc. A trainer allows a good warm-up but it less energy intensive. Why would a pro rider want to tax himself to that degree right before the TdF?? How stupid.

Do you not think that if the pros thought rollers were superior, they would somehow figure out a way to use them.

And that bit about them being more "taxing".....you got any data to support that or are you just making it up. If you are just making it up, that would be stupid.

Yojimbo_ said:

Do you not think that if the pros thought rollers were superior, they would somehow figure out a way to use them.

And that bit about them being more "taxing".....you got any data to support that or are you just making it up. If you are just making it up, that would be stupid.

I don't have any data to back up what LBCBJ said but I can tell you from personal experience that I get a much better, more complete workout on my rollers than I ever got on my trainer, and they are both equipped with the same type of magnetic resistance:o . It just makes sense that you would have to work harder to control the bike on a set of rollers than on a trainer. A trainer is great for warming up your legs prior to an event. However, for keeping in shape over the winter, I feel that a set of rollers is the way to go because you will be using the same muscles on a set of rollers that you would use riding down the road🙄 .