[RBW] Bike Trainer Thoughts

2017-12-31 Thread Deacon Patrick
Jonathan, not off topic at all! Kids and cycling and winter and how to combine (or not) is a challenge. We have four daughters, age 5-17. A few things we’ve discovered along the way and how we’ve implimented them (how/if you impliment them so they work for you will no doubt vary). You don’t

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2017-12-31 Thread Tim Butterfield
My AHH is currently mounted on a Wahoo Fitness Kickr Snap trainer for the winter. This is with racks, fenders, and all including the small saddlesack. I only swapped my rear Barlow Pass EL for a 32mm Schwalbe Indoor trainer tire and a quick release skewer for my rear Pitlock. There is a front

[RBW] Bike Trainer Thoughts

2017-12-30 Thread Coal Bee Rye Anne
Haven’t personally used it much but we got one for my wife last winter and set it up with her road bike. It’s a CycleOps but forget the model name... Silencer, maybe? It’s a magnetic resistance one where you remove the rear wheel completely, install a cassette directly on the built in freehub

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2017-12-30 Thread Patrick Moore
That's 5-10 Farenheit. On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Moore wrote: > ... and late December highs in the 5 to 10 degree range, > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this

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2017-12-30 Thread Patrick Moore
This question reminds me of my first winter in Quebec City. Coming straight from SoCal to an average of 13 feet of snow per year, and late December highs in the 5 to 10 degree range, I thought I was obliged to exercise indoors, and tried, variously, squat thrusts and other exercises-in-place, and

[RBW] Bike Trainer Thoughts

2017-12-30 Thread Jonathan D.
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