Roller trainer setup

The good news is, rollers are very easy to set up. Even better, you only have to set them up once — there is no need to adjust them each time you ride! If you use a stationary trainer, it requires adjustment each time you put your bike on it. If unfolding them, make sure the cable is resting in the grooves on the sides of the roller drums. This cable is vital because it connects the drums so they all rotate together!

This is the only real step in roller setup. To do this, hold your bicycle on the rollers. Be sure to place the rear wheel over the two nonadjustable drums. The front wheel should rest on the single front drum. What you want to do is move the drum forward or backward so that the front hub is slightly behind the drum. What has worked perfectly for me is dropping a plumb bob from the quick release skewer. I like it so I can drop a plumb bob from the skewer which is the center of the front hub and have it hit the back side of the drum.

This means the center of the front hub is behind the center of the drum. Why not center the wheel over the drum? To move the drum, just loosen the end bolts with an adjustable wrench, move the drum into a different set of holes, and re-tighten the bolts. Levi Bloom is an experienced endurance athlete who has been training and competing for over 17 years. A former Cat 1 road and mountain bike racer professional class on the regional circuit , he is now a cycling coach USA Cycling Level 3 Certified and sports nutrition coach Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified.

While your sensor battery is flipped, power up your device, turn on bluetooth again in settings, open the Fit app, and open the Sensors screen. Flip the battery back to positive side up a magnet helps with removal in the sensor and reinstall battery cap. Moving forward, Saris Cycling Group will simply be known as Saris — which is probably what many of you called the company anyways.

Kinetic fluid bike trainers create resistance by turning a blade inside a container of fluid. This resistance is progressive and increases as wheel speed increases.

Kinetic fluid trainers provide a realistic replication of the resistance a rider experiences outdoors. Resistance increases or decreases with wheel speed. The CycleOps fluid 2 trainer is based on a fluid resistance unit which basically uses a rotor in side a tube filled with silicon fluid to create resistance.

A fluid resistance unit gives much smoother and linear resistance compared to a magnetic or wind resistance unit. In a magnetic trainer, there is no fluid involved. Rather, there is a magneto which you can manually adjust to the desired resistance level. In fact, they are unlike any trainer you have ever ridden. The secret, aside from their extraordinary quality, is a high speed tubular flywheel contained inside the rear roller.

We received some requests from owners wanting to do massive sprint intervals without worrying about coming off the rollers. So we went to the drawing board and come up with a front fork mount and rail bumpers that we beta released for testing.

We do not offer them for sale through our web site, but will provide them as special order items if you contact us. TruTrainer Premium Bicycle Rollers are engineered to bring the road to you anytime anywhere. We hope you experience the difference! To make it easier to to provide the quality that we demand, we in sourced all of our manufacturing.

No easy task, since we had to reconfigure our shop so that we could bring in our own CNC equipment. A lot of effort but the results are worth it. We owe a big thanks to the Hurco Machine Tool guys who are headquartered in Indianapolis for helping us get started. In order to satisfy owners who have been clamoring for more load. We released a beta auxiliary load bar to low rate production. Picture below is the load bar and manual adjustment mechanism.

The load bar that bolts onto the frame behind the middle roller. It uses the tapped holes pre-installed for the belt guard so the installation is fairly easy.