Rollers or Turbo Trainer

[Scoobs]

Looking to get one or the other for winter training on the pushbike. Which one do you reckon and why. Leaning towards the rollers. Will be using a single speed trackbike on it.

Thanks

[mattSV]

TT gets the vote for me, rollers will not give you variable resistance

[maviczap]

If using a fixie, then rollers. I don't have much experience of rollers, but I have tried a fixie on rollers and it was great.

It teaches you how to pedal really smoothly. You can't do out of the saddle riding on rollers, so you have to sit down and pedal. Good for balance as well.

The only downside to rollers is they take up a lot of room, where as a turbo doesn't and I don't know how noisey they are?

I've got a fluid filled turbo's, nice and quiet, with one of them special turbo trainer tyres, and the resistance is very similar to riding on the road. That's also a plus point of rollers.

With riding on rollers, you'll have to concentrate on riding and keeping your balance, which might cut down on the boredom factor :smt120:smt120

[Bluepete]

I had a Turbo Trainer.

Hated it.

You'll need a TV, a towel over the bike to stop the sweat ruining it and a patient other half.

Don't forget to put something under the font wheel to get the geometry right.

Pete ;)

[Scoobs]

I'm not so worried about the variable resistance side of things as I'm still planning on getting out on one of my bikes over the winter, but when it gets really she-highty I was going to jump on the rollers and spin for a while. I borrowed a turbo trainer for a while and it was ok (boring but ok), but I thought that rollers would be a bit more interesting and a bit more of a challenge.