One or two additional thoughts about rollers and trainers: Trainers - some of these have mounts that lock the front fork onto the stand, sans wheel, and support the rest of the bike frame with a clamp-on device at the BB shell. The rear wheel then rubs against a magnetically resistive flywheel affair that can be varied in intensity. Has anyone ever researched what kind of stresses this setup places on the frame assembly?
Rollers - a couple of misnomers about these jobs: 1) The diameter of the roller has everything to do with the level of difficulty of riding on one of these - the larger the diameter (4 inches) the easier it is to ride in a higher gear and spin faster, therefore easier to keep one's balance by virtue of momentum; the smaller the diameter (> 3 inches) the more difficult the effort, even in smaller gears. 2) If one has a roller of the proper diameter for the needs, but the bike is skating back and forth all over the place, making balancing almost impossible, the front-to-center/rear rollers distance is probably not matched well to the bike's wheelbase. Contrary to what the instructions that come with a set of rollers might tell you, the proper place for the front wheel is directly on top of the front roller, not slightly behind it. If it's slightly behind it, yes, you will skate all over the place; if it's directly on top of it you will enjoy a smooth ride. You won't go flying off unless you do something radically wild like trying to suddenly pop into a sprint. On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:29:16 PM UTC-6, Jonathan D. wrote: > > I’m not sure if this is off-topic. I would use the trainer with a > Rivendell bike. I’m considering getting a bike trainer and wondering if > anybody has experience with one. I have a kid and sometimes it’s hard to > really go out for a long ride. Sometimes might be generous. Besides my bike > commute it is hard to ever go out riding. I also like the idea of a Zwift > compatible trainer. I also worry this will be an item that just sits in the > basement and I never use. But mostly for the winter when my kid doesn’t > enjoy biking in the rain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
