I've used a turbo trainer for the first time at a training camp this weekend. I haven't got one and felt left out as my fellow students all had them (had to borrow one). I relyed on spinning classes, use the bikes down the gym.Any advantages of owning your own one and what do I need to look at ifI want to buy one, any bad ones out there?
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Go for 2nd hand - peeps tend not to use them that much.
But spinning can be good too. If you get a good teacher.
Really good bit of kit, but bloomin´heavy!
I got it from http://www.oldhamcyclecentre.co.uk/
#125 and worth every penny! You can use its own resistance adjustment system, or your own gears (which I prefer).
So if someone only had one bike, they could ride that bike in a very wobbly beginner's fashion on the scary road AND fix it up nice and safely in front of the telly?
very good and quite quiet with a curved A frame so not to stress the bikes frame
about £125
But can you just haul a bike in from outside and fix one of these things on to it?
But it can be quite noisy, and very hot.
Best to do it with smooth tyres and not MTB ones or the tread will make a hell of a racket. (unless you get a turbo that runs along the rim rather than the tyre - but they are pretty rare)
I prefer to set my bike up in the garage and have a fan (electrical one, sadly not someone with pom-poms) straight in front of me, and music or radio through headphones.
For those who missed a previous thread, the piccie on the box of the Gist turbo trainer is, er, mildly pornographic and shows a novel use for a bike seat.