Just got rollers

2LAP

The bike will hold an almost straight line on its own and variations in lean or force on the pedals are all thats needed to straighten and center the bike most of the time.

Chesapeake Boy

Easy for you to say!

Mouse Potato

Think positive. It's not half as entertaining going along calmly and straight as it is when the bike's ducking and diving all over the place.

(I don't believe it either, but I'm trying to convince myself! )

Chesapeake Boy

Don't worry, I am not being negative... I am just new... I road it for 3 miles on my mtn bike the first night...10 miles on my road bike the 2nd night, and 5 on the road bike last night.... I think it would track better if I took the Aero bars of.....

drewski

wheel speed on rollers is not comparable unless done on the same model. were you two on the same set of rollers (at different times of course)

different roller designs provide different resistence such as the small diameter Kreitlers (whose model name escapes me) vs. the regular

drewski

what are your "traps"? trapezius muscles?

smoothness is key on rollers. it could be that you have your seat up too high causing some hip-rocking while pedaling? which then leads to having to correct with your arms?

Chesapeake Boy

yes Trapezius muscles..... I think I am just too tense while riding right now....

Shabby

Rolling resistance of your tyres also makes a difference - my training bike is much slower than my racing bike on the rollers. (Before anyone bags me for training on rollers with a $4K bike, I had to change bike mid-session due to a puncture).

The other pointless part about looking at speeds is that the heavier you are, the more resistance you're going to experience on a set of rollers.

drewski

well, both of those effects will affect performance on the road too . . .

Shabby

Yes, but on the road the main thing you're overcoming is aerodynamic drag, which is proportional to the square of the velocity.

Saying you've done 93km/h on rollers doesn't actually mean anything. You have no momentum, and you havent overcome any of the major forces involved in cycling (drag and gravity).

If you want to see a big speed, put your bike computer on the rear wheel and jump on a wind trainer without the resistance attached.

If you're looking to set records on rollers, then try to hit a maximum cadence.

rollers

Serious response: It's possible to simulate this with a wind attachment, no?

Not-so-serious response: Well, what if I got a really big electric fan that could blow at 94kph....

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