Yet Another Cycling Forum

General Category => Freewheeling => The Dark Side => Topic started by: Beardy on 06 February, 2018, 09:18:23 am

Title: Rollers?
Post by: Beardy on 06 February, 2018, 09:18:23 am: not that I'm planning it, but I was pondering the possibilities of putting the Grasshopper on rollers and wondered if it is at all possible to use a recumbent bike on rollers.

I have to think outside the box because I lost the box a long time ago ::-)
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 February, 2018, 12:17:09 pm: It can be done - I know that my chum Fast Freddy Markham used sometimes to ride a GRR on rollers - but how easy it is would be another matter entirely.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2018, 02:52:12 pm: I don’t see why not. Technique would be the same.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: De Sisti on 06 February, 2018, 05:08:03 pm: Try these. (http://www.insideride.com/support/#openModalH) Dead easy to ride on. Much easier than conventional rollers.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: Kim on 06 February, 2018, 05:09:50 pm: I found a Streetmachine on a turbo trainer to be rather bouncy. Dunno how that translates to rollers.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: jelhinks on 11 February, 2018, 05:27:26 am: I used my Bacchetta on a turbo trainer..
Worked very well unfortunately the rear brake calliper somehow got wrecked.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: DaveReading on 11 February, 2018, 01:33:12 pm: Quote from: De Sisti on 06 February, 2018, 05:08:03 pm
Try these. (http://www.insideride.com/support/#openModalH) Dead easy to ride on. Much easier than conventional rollers.

At that price, they ought to be.
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: ElyDave on 11 February, 2018, 06:24:02 pm: My M5 was OK on the turbo, apart from the fact that the NOS turbo tyre I had seemed to be covered in some gummy residue which completely fouled the roller and had me thinking my legs had turned to spaghetti
Title: Re: Rollers?
Post by: Arellcat on 12 February, 2018, 02:57:33 pm: I used rollers as part of my BM training. I was borrowing a front-wheel drive carbon recumbent with 20 inch wheels – Mr L will no doubt know whose it was – so the rollers had to go back to front, with the two at the front and one at the back. Needless to say, it made steering to keep one's balance a little interesting at first, but had it cracked in a couple of days.