Carbon Bike and a trainer ?
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Airborne posted 1 year ago.
You can ride a carbon bike in a trainer, no problem. Trainers are generally considered to be bad for your wheels, especially because it will wear only your rear one, but the frame should be OK. Some people are weary of the compressive forces you exert on the frame by putting it in the trainer, but you should be fine. I haven't heard of any frames breaking or cracking under pressure from a trainer. Carbon is quite resilient, and my carbon bike has done just fine in a trainer.
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wesmeyer11 posted 1 year ago.
Agreed with Airborne. I have a carbon road and tri bike, no problems. Just don't crank it down SUPER tight....the trainer is built to give when you lock it down, so that the bike frame doesn't. Just to clarify a tad on what Airborne said - the trainer is bad for the tire, not the rim (at least not that I know of). You will go through tires fast - I just by a cheapo tire and use it for the trainer that way I don't wear through 50 dollar tires on the trainer.
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JamieM posted 1 year ago.
I with the others. Been using my Aegis on a Cycleops2, a great trainer by the way, for a couple of years without a problem.
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
Hey I had a quasi-side question on that one. I have been not changing my old tires on my tri bike just because a vast majority of my riding is now on the trainer. I was thinking of buying some cheap used wheel and slapping a cassette on it and putting the tire on that to ride for the trainer. Has anyone ever done that? Is there anything special I need to look for to make sure I can just slap on an ultegra 10 speed cassette? Will it mess with my shifters any?
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solidad posted 1 year ago.
Shouldn't mess with your shifting, mainly it can mess with brakes due to different dish (which you don't need on the trainer). maybe a small amount of fine tuning at the barrel if anything.
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JamieM posted 1 year ago.
solidad;61714 wrote:
Shouldn't mess with your shifting, mainly it can mess with brakes due to different dish (which you don't need on the trainer). maybe a small amount of fine tuning at the barrel if anything.
Dish is the placement of the rim in the center of the axle. That shouldn't change from one wheelset to another. There shouldn;t be any real problems unless you end up with an old wheelset that was meant for 7 speed. I think that anything that could handle 8/9 will take 10.
And make sure the cassette falls in the same range if you can. Changing the size of the smallest or largest cogs too much could create the need to adjust the derailleur as part of a wheel switch.
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Airborne posted 1 year ago.
wesmeyer11;61701 wrote:
Just to clarify a tad on what Airborne said - the trainer is bad for the tire, not the rim (at least not that I know of). You will go through tires fast - I just by a cheapo tire and use it for the trainer that way I don't wear through 50 dollar tires on the trainer.
Actually, the trainer can also be bad for the wheel itself. It's fine for the rims, but the bearings can suffer from the compressive forces they weren't meant to endure.
Jstyle;61710 wrote:
I was thinking of buying some cheap used wheel and slapping a cassette on it and putting the tire on that to ride for the trainer. Has anyone ever done that? Is there anything special I need to look for to make sure I can just slap on an ultegra 10 speed cassette? Will it mess with my shifters any?
Any time you swap out a cassette, you must also swap chains, because they wear together. Your best bet is to keep the same cassette, and just swap wheels. Or easier still, just swap out a tire, as has been suggested above. Of course, the importance of any of this stuff depends on how many trainer miles you think you're gonna log in a given season. If you're gonna do under 1000 miles on the trainer, don't even bother.
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
Yeah very unfortunately because of weather outside I should be well WELL over that number. I average about 150-200+ miles a week.
I am new to triathlons and road racing in general. I was seduced by the leftover 2K6 Felt F4c when I test rode it and decided to buy it as my first road bike. I have been a competitive athlete in college not too long ago and I am very committed to doing a Sprint / Olympic triathlon schedule this season. However, I live in NJ and it has been extremely cold lately and I don’t get a chance to ride during my lunch break at work so I want to invest in a trainer. I have two questions....
1) Will I damage my carbon frame by using it in a trainer? It does have non-carbon drops (AL or Steel ???)
2) I like the Cycleops Fluid 2 trainer? Is this a decent choice? Should I be looking at anything else. It seems like a good deal for less than $200 on ebay......
Thanks for the help ..........