E-Rollers

Hutchy

Anybody have one of these? http://www.insideride.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaYDZ-RSOTA UK store is closed but they will ship from USA for 938 USD excluding duty/tax.

blorg

This guy built his own:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2yvBo8EMQ

They do look very good, I don't have rollers myself but the whole feel of being fixed in place on a trainer is very very uncomfortable for me. Rollers would be a bit better but you are still fixed foward/aft unless you have one of these yokes.

cipo

reading my mind !!!??? haha

been lookin at these for a while now... vry difficult to get a hold of and im sure customs will pop a nice tax on top before releasing them to you when they arrive in ireland !!

i ve had trainer in the past and its just disgusting to train on em !!

i need rollers too...

there a re a few good sets available from CRC and cyclesuperstore do a set of tacx but obviously nowhere near as good for varied workouts as the insideride stuff !!!

abcdggs

Just wondering how rollers work as regards resistance compared to a turbo, most seem to come without a way of applying resistance. Are they as noisy as a turbo if they dont have the device applying resistance? thanks

Dr.Millah

I bought these last year http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=31106
and converted them to free motion for very cheap (had most of the parts so it only cost me 10e)

If your interested i can explain in greater detail how to convert it on the cheap.

Hutchy

Dr.Millah wrote: »

I bought these last year http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=31106
and converted them to free motion for very cheap (had most of the parts so it only cost me 10e)

If your interested i can explain in greater detail how to convert it on the cheap.

That would be really helpful Doc thanks. I am sure everybody would be interested so please post details here.

blorg

abcdggs wrote: »

Just wondering how rollers work as regards resistance compared to a turbo, most seem to come without a way of applying resistance. Are they as noisy as a turbo if they dont have the device applying resistance? thanks

High-end ones, including the E-Motion, have a resistance unit. Yer man's home built ones even have a remote for the resistance!

biker_joe

I was keeping on the e-motion guys and crazy youtube builders too for the last year or so ... the e-motion ones are built to order and are crazy money and you then you need to add shipping from the US !
So it seems that either tacx or Elite seems to have either bought the patent or stole from e-motion and are doing their own version which will be available in Europe middle of this year !! Still stupid money though !!

So it's defo a build your self job for around €150 ?!?!?

Biker Joe

abcdggs

so regular rollers (without resistance unit) just have a constant resistance depending on the type of drums used?

biker_joe

most rollers don't have resistance..... but some do ...

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/training-rollers/product/v-arion-inertial-parabolic-rollers-09-34008

Biker Joe

Dr.Millah

Building your own doesnt cost much at all. Though, it wont look as professional as the emotion it will be the same.

I will post up how i converted the TACX rollers in more detail tonight with some pictures etc. cost me around 10euro to convert as i had a few bits lying around so it was very cheap.