<p>Regarding the discussion of indoor cycling training:</p>
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<li><p>Rollers are a highly specialized piece of equipment best utilized if your primary interest is working on form and a smooth pedal stroke.They also demand a highly developed specialized skill set, based on good cycling form, to keep from falling off! You can get a front fork mount for some rollers but then you are defeating the purpose of using rollers anyway. For high intensity indoor training there are much better options.</p></li>
<li><p>Indoor spinning bikes are an excellent way to get a great workout. The best of them are based on magnetic resistance and offer a computer console that gives you all sorts of metrics feedback including calculated wattage. The Keiser M3 mentioned by IDad is an excellent, visually elegant piece. It is institutional quality (my daughter manages the preeminent indoor cycling studio in Philadelphia and they use the M3 exclusively) and utilizes a belt drive rather than a chain so it is whisper quiet. The M3 does not have a fore and aft adjustment to the handlebars but that can be found on the M3+. Schwinn also makes a very high quality magnetic resistance spinning bike but it is significantly more expensive. Finally, there are indoor bikes made by Cycleops which are unique in that they have a Powertap hub built into the flywheel that measures actual wattage rather than providing calculated wattage as with the M3 and Schwinn. However, the resistance is based on felt pad resistance and is not as uniform and smooth in its resistance curve as the magnetic units. </p></li>
<li><p>Indoor rear wheel trainer stands - These are the most cost effective way of getting high quality indoor cycling training provided you have a bike to mount on them. The best, most cost effective rear wheel stands at a price point below $500 use fluid based resistance with resistance units that are calibrated to closely parallel the resistance felt out on the road. There are also excellent computer controlled magnetic resistance units but they cost about 3x more than the fluid trainers. At a price point of under $500, fluid resistance is the gold standard. Kurt Kinetic and Cycleops make the best rear wheel fluid trainers with Cycleops offering a better array of sophisticated electronics but Kurt offering a unique leak proof resistance unit and the heaviest flywheel in the industry providing the most real world road like feel. I personally use a Kurt Kinetic for off season indoor training, after years of trying a host of the other options and could not be more satisfied with its functioning. Something to note: There is a lot of b.s. out there about rear wheel trainers stressing bike frame in an unnatural destructive way. That is nonsense. Any quality made aluminum, steel or titanium frame bike will be just fine with no damage ever occurring. That has not only been my experience but I have also confirmed it with Tom Kellogg, one of the most renowned frame builders in the world who happens to have his custom frame shop about an hour from where I live. If you intend to use a carbon frame on a rear wheel trainer, I would check with the manufacturer since there can be such variability in how the layup is done with carbon fiber and while most manufacturers have no issue about using their carbon bikes on a rear wheel trainer, a small minority of carbon frame builders state such use will void their warranty.</p></li>
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