How hard are rollers to cycle on .

how long does take to get to grips with them any experiences .
turbo or rollers for winter?

Takes about 20 minutes to get used to riding them – just look ahead, not at the front wheel. And having used both rollers and turbo – its rollers all the way for me.

My experience on rollers, took about an hours session. First five mins all over the place, then gradually getting steadier and going longer between dabs on the wall. Still took a good few hours though before staying upright became something I didn’t have to be thinking about.

Rollers or turbo, have and use both but if I had to have only one it’d be the turbo.

I had it down in a couple of minutes #riding god

Dont look down:)

Yeah it really isn’t that difficult. For extra riding god bonus points try it on a TT bike in aero position 🙂 that took a bit more practice!

Thanks guy some good advice ,just im a bit clumsy at times ,but got to give it ago to find out if its for me.

I used to train on rollers in my bedroom back in my teens. On my track bike. I got quite cocky and would try stand up sprints, until the day it all went wrong. I bounced off, leaving scorch marks on the carpet and tyre marks right up the wardrobe door and on the ceiling.

Theres a lot of momentum in a fixed wheel bike at 30mph. Mum wasn’t best pleased.

Hope that helps 😀

#riding god

Not until you can do it no-handed .. : )

I used to train on rollers in my bedroom back in my teens. On my track bike. I got quite cocky and would try stand up sprints, until the day it all went wrong. I bounced off, leaving scorch marks on the carpet and tyre marks right up the wardrobe door and on the ceiling.

Theres a lot of momentum in a fixed wheel bike at 30mph. Mum wasn’t best pleased.
Thanks for that, a genuine laugh out loud moment 😆 😆

Don’t look down and nice loose grip in the bars. If you are in the flats you may find it easier to extend your fingers out flat so that the fingers are parallel with the ground, this prevents you from giving the bars a murder grip.

If you are a nice smooth and balanced rider then it is easy to go no handed.

I have rollers and a turbo and alternate depending on how I am feeling.

Then take it up a notch 😀

They don’t take too long to get used to.
Time goes by faster on them than the mind numbing turbo. I really do believe they help you become a smoother rider too. Definetly helped me.
As for tricks on them. Within a week you will be able to ride no handed on them.
Taking a jacket on and off a couple weeks longer.
The real test is knee warmers on and off .. Found myself in a heap more than a few times practicing that one.

Rollers enable you to add polish to your cycling IMO.

Rollers enable you to add polish to your cycling

Wow.. foreign languages, cooking.. theres no end to the skills rollers bring out

My brother got some for Christmas…we spent an hour outside taking turns and within an hour we were trying to sprint in top gear and ride onto the rollers, ride, and then lunge forwards and ride off them.

I think my bike was ‘between sizes’ as the steering was a bit heavy, we then tried adjusting the rollers for my wife’s bike and it was a lot more stable.

If I get my own I’d probably drill the frame of the rollers to get it in the sweet spot.

A few years ago I went along to the nocturne in Edinburgh. There was s trackstand tent, I thought no bother Ill romp this…

I was doing fine. 1 minute in the woman says ‘that’s great now take a hand off’ that was fine till she said ‘now the other one’ 🙂

There was a guy eating a plate of spaghetti whilst trackstanding. Next level!

This thread makes me want rollers and spaghetti.:)

least he’s wearing a lid

It doesn’t take long to get the basics on the rollers, took me a little longer to move on to riding one-handed or one-footed but it’s not too difficult.
Despite a bit of practice I still can’t get the hang of riding no-handed, hopefully it just needs a bit more practice.

Here’s my first time on rollers:

ok, maybe not quite my first time 😉