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Description
The new rollers by Tacx. Collapsible with conical rollers. The design of the rollers makes it virtually impossible to ride off the rollers. You can ride freely on these rollers and therefore you can improve your coordination and technique. When you ride without the brace you will need to concentrate. This is vital to track racing.
Tacx Antares rollers distinguish themselves through the heavy conical rollers that create the momentum of mass inertia. When collapsed the rollers measure only 80 cm and are therefore easily transportable.
I've had fixed trainers and rollers before and definately prefer rollers. If you're a clumsy rider like some of those on Youtube go for fixed but if you have a resonable sense of balance rollers are slightly more interesting as you need to add concentration to your session.
Will take a couple of sessions for confidence to grow and then you're away,easy to set up and you can just stick the bike on and go. Great quality, overpriced in my opinion but best price available delivered is from Chain Reaction as ever.
If it's chucking down, snowing or icy on the roads you need to train indoors. Gym bikes are rubbish, Spin is good but classes are limited. Fixed trainers are a faff to set up and who can be bothered to use separate training tyre anyway?
So that leaves rollers. These Tacx T1000 are pricey but worth it. Smart, easy to assemble and very solid. Easy to store. I've only been riding a road bike for a year (admittedly from a BMX/MTB background)and I got the hang of this in ten minutes.
Some tips: Start in a doorway to steady yourself. Beware the top of the door frame!! Use a camping/yoga mat underneath. Keep a constant cadence, this makes it a lot easier. Going up/down the gears provides different resistance. It's quite noisy so an ipod or similar is ideal. This also stops you getting bored. Nice not to have to wear a helmet. You will sweat like mad. My wife/kids got to have a good laugh at daddy BUT keep the ankle-biters at a distance.
Overall a very good purchase that provides a different kind of workout which will focus on your handling skills and cadence.
Just got the trainer delivered. I'm very impressed, it arrived to my place in China in 4 days.
As the others reviews said it takes a bit of getting used to (you have to concentrate on the rollers) but once your up and running it's great fun. (Took me about 10 mins). Looking forward to training most nights and avoiding suicidal Beijing motorists lol.
Buy it!!!!!
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