Tempted by some rollers as I need to do some indoor training as recovery for a leg injury. Do I need to use a turbo style tyre or is the wear rate acceptable on normal road tyres?

I’ve had to put a blue training tyre on my bike, never had any issues with tyre wear on the turbo and just used standard rode tyre but the rollers seemed to kill my rear tyre.

Interesting, what brand of rollers?

These caught my eye on wiggle

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/tacx-antares-professional-training-rollers/

you might try reading this:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-i-ordered-rollers

From my personal experience I’ve found normal tyres, I use gator hardskins to be more than fine on rollers, I’ve used the same tyres at my clubs turbo nights and have noticed that after a while I ended up with sliiiick tyres so do take caution still

Be fine on normal tyres. People warm up on them at races for that reason (and the simplicity)

FWIW I use normal tyres on my turbo. I get through one each winter but they are knackered old ones at the start anyway. Just keep a few in the garage from previous years.

For rollers normal heavier weight tyres like Duranos that are already on the bike. They do wear but It seems fine. I wouldn’t use your best cotton racing tubs though.

I’ll probably use the rollers mainly with my commuting bike so happy to put some tougher tyres on. Sounds like a go. Thanks all.