Front wheels with Turbo Trainer

"turkeytickler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front wheel?

I figure since it doesnt move, all that weight must place an uneven load on the spokes leading to
a lostening?

Do other people swap with a cheap front wheel when on the trainer?

Chris

Seems unlikely. Many people hang their bikes from the front wheel with no ill effects.
___
Michael MacClancy

turkeytickler said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front wheel?

I figure since it doesnt move, all that weight must place an uneven load on the spokes leading to
a lostening?

No problem at all. Although if you actually "use a turbo trainer on your front wheel" you won't get
very fit ;-)

Michael MacClancy said:

"turkeytickler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front wheel?

I figure since it doesnt move, all that weight must place an uneven load on the spokes leading
to a lostening?

Do other people swap with a cheap front wheel when on the trainer?

Quoted message said:

Seems unlikely. Many people hang their bikes from the front wheel with no ill effects.

Come on, you'll have to Google for that,perhaps on rec.bicycles.tech. See: tinyurl.comtyozOpen ↗

Hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the
bottom of the wheel, stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes, and leaving a
definite bulge where the hanger was. In addition, the butyl of the inner tube gradually
deterorates(sp?) at the top as the nitrogen sinks to the bottom, allowing the pure oxygen to attack
the black colouring of the butyl.Apparently only black inner tubes are affected, so clear ones will
be fine.The front forks are also affected, as the are made to be in compression, and once the
compression is released, the kinetic tension is released, so lengthening the forks. The only way to
keep the bike in good condition is to use it everyday! Alan.
--
Change the 'minus' to 'plus' to reply by mail. dvatc.co.ukdvatc.co.ukOpen ↗ off-road cycling in the
North Midlands.

"A.Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Michael MacClancy said:

"turkeytickler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front

wheel?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I figure since it doesnt move, all that weight must place an uneven

load

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

on the spokes leading to a lostening?

Do other people swap with a cheap front wheel when on the trainer?

Quoted message said:

Seems unlikely. Many people hang their bikes from the front wheel with

no

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

ill effects.

Come on, you'll have to Google for that,perhaps on rec.bicycles.tech. See: tinyurl.comtyozOpen ↗

Hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the
bottom of the wheel, stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes, and leaving a
definite bulge where the hanger was. In addition, the butyl of the inner tube gradually
deterorates(sp?) at the top as the nitrogen sinks to the bottom, allowing the pure oxygen to
attack the black colouring of the butyl.Apparently only black inner tubes are affected, so clear
ones will be fine.The front forks are also affected, as the are made to be in compression, and
once the compression is released, the kinetic tension is released, so lengthening the forks. The
only way to keep the bike in good condition is to use it everyday! Alan.
--
Change the 'minus' to 'plus' to reply by mail. dvatc.co.ukdvatc.co.ukOpen ↗ off-road cycling in the
North Midlands.

LOL As it says elsewhere in that thread www.bullsh.it is a useful authority on the subject.
___
Michael MacClancy

"A.Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the
bottom of the wheel, stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes, and leaving a
definite bulge where the hanger was.

Oh for goodness sake! I thought this had all been done to death. Clearly, if the bike is hanging,
the bike is clearly standing on the *top* spokes and hanging on the bottom ones.

Tim

apologies if this was OT - but sufficiently interesting for you to read and reply to......

A.Lee said:

Michael MacClancy said:

"turkeytickler" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front

wheel?

Quoted message said:

I figure since it doesnt move, all that weight must place an uneven

load

Quoted message said:

on the spokes leading to a lostening?

Do other people swap with a cheap front wheel when on the trainer?

Quoted message said:

Seems unlikely. Many people hang their bikes from the front wheel with no ill effects.

Come on, you'll have to Google for that,perhaps on rec.bicycles.tech. See: tinyurl.comtyozOpen ↗

Hanging a bike by its wheels is a really bad move, all of the free ions in the rim sink to the
bottom of the wheel, stretching the top spokes, compressing the bottom spokes, and leaving a
definite bulge where the hanger was. In addition, the butyl of the inner tube gradually
deterorates(sp?) at the top as the nitrogen sinks to the bottom, allowing the pure oxygen to
attack the black colouring of the butyl.Apparently only black inner tubes are affected, so clear
ones will be fine.The front forks are also affected, as the are made to be in compression, and
once the compression is released, the kinetic tension is released, so lengthening the forks. The
only way to keep the bike in good condition is to use it everyday! Alan.

--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: opera.comm2Open ↗

turkeytickler said:

Any opinions on the effect of using a turbo trainer on your front wheel?

It wobbles a bit. From side to side, that is. To hold it still, I have confected a Wooden
Contrivance which lifts the front wheel off the floor by the same distance that the rear wheels is
off the floor, and screwed a couple of pieces of "L" section ally thereto, some 28 mm apart, between
which the front tyre fits snugly. I don't think it will damage the wheel, and given that removing
the front wheel on that bike is a major tool-wielding exercise, I hope I'm right...

Dave Larrington - legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uklegslarry.beerdrinkers.co.ukOpen ↗
===========================================================
Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
bhpc.org.ukbhpc.org.ukOpen ↗
===========================================================