mountain bike ……turbo trainer?

Got an on one inbred that I use as a comutor (? ) bike and wanted to put it on a turbo trainer is that do a bull?

I suppose there might be turbos that can’t adapt for a 26 inch wheel but most do.

Most will accommodate MTB’s as long as the rear wheel is QR.

Buy either a trainer specific tyre (think mine is a Schwalbe Insider) or the cheapest slick tyre you can lay hands on.

Even a barely knobbly MTB tyre can shake the teeth out of your fillings (and, more importantly, your GF/wife/partners favourite pictures off the walls)…

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My Tacx does both 26″ and 700cc.

Thought it was fairly standard tbh.

Even a barely knobbly MTB tyre can shake the teeth out of your fillings (and, more importantly, your GF/wife/partners favourite pictures off the walls)…

Being tight, I tried it once. For about a minute. After which I walked to the LBS and bought a specific turbo tyre.

Minoura rim drive is your best bet, knobbly tyres on a tyre driven one are noisy as mentioned above.

Might be worth picking up a crappy cheap wheel to fit said tyre on too? Maybe swapping whole wheels is less faf than changing tyres.

Iv got slicks to put on it. Was just checking it fitted the frame. Thanks for the advice guys 🙂

I’ve got this trainer

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/elite-supercrono-power-mag-elastogel-trainer/rp-prod57923

and I’ve used it with a 142 x 12 rear hub via a Kinetic Traxle and it worked perfectly. Anything smaller will be fine too. Here’s the axle

https://kurtkinetic.com/products/kinetic-traxle/

Even if it’s already got slicks, it might be a good idea to get a second tyre or fit an old one- turbos wear tyres differently, I don’t use mine a whole lot but I’ve still got a completely square pro 3 in the garage that I wouldn’t want to take on the road again.

(as far as I can tell, turbo specific tyres are a load of old pish… I’ve used a couple when I was borrowing turbos, and a couple of road tyres, the turbo tyres weren’t usefully grippier and they were louder. Maybe they last longer? But they’re more expensive so what’s the point?)

Turbo tyres are quieter in my experience, don’t square off anywhere near as quickly and don’t leave loads of black dust everywhere. Worth it imho.

I just bought a sale one from Halfords a couple of years ago, put my old 456 on it – and quickly got a slick on the rear.

I wouldn’t be too fussed . 10 minutes on a turbo and you’ll be begging to ride your bike outdoors.