Rollers vs IDT

[101%]

if you use a powermeter you will see that it is really difficult to get above 200 watts on rollers even if you are sitting in the hardest gear you have.

ok' date=' ok - i was talking cr@p -

if you really concentrate you can go hard on the rollers. 

did a short session on saturday and found that i can get some decent wattage figures. 

i did however really start panicking when going at 50kph + - really requires a lot of concentration and it burns like hell!

guys like 101% must be really brave for hanging on at 60km/h for over an hour - build good TT skills it would seem!

doing 2x20's will be possible,  but in my case rather dangerous.






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I had go at it last week with my new PT (thanks Bruce)!!!!!

 

Riding 50km/h on a 53/12 I was averaging 290W, so now I've fitted a 53/11 . I reckon one could sit at 330W at a speed around 50km/h. Fun part about rollers is that you concentrating so much that you not aware of the time . An hour and a half  flys by!!!

 

 

 

So, you finally broke down and got an 11 - I can just see the pain on the faces of the guys trying to hold your wheel when you hit that 53x11.

 

330watts on rollers - that is cooking!!  But I hear the world record is 164km/h at a cadence of 250+

 

The oke that road that speed must have been on some serious roids!!!

or that wasn't a standard bike and rollers. at around 55km/h me and the rollers start vibrating on the floor , end up 1m away from where you started.

 

 

[bruce]

if you use a powermeter you will see that it is really difficult to get above 200 watts on rollers even if you are sitting in the hardest gear you have.

ok' date=' ok - i was talking cr@p -

if you really concentrate you can go hard on the rollers. 

did a short session on saturday and found that i can get some decent wattage figures. 

i did however really start panicking when going at 50kph + - really requires a lot of concentration and it burns like hell!

guys like 101% must be really brave for hanging on at 60km/h for over an hour - build good TT skills it would seem!

doing 2x20's will be possible,  but in my case rather dangerous.






[/quote']

 

I had go at it last week with my new PT (thanks Bruce)!!!!!

 

Riding 50km/h on a 53/12 I was averaging 290W, so now I've fitted a 53/11 . I reckon one could sit at 330W at a speed around 50km/h. Fun part about rollers is that you concentrating so much that you not aware of the time . An hour and a half  flys by!!!

 

 

 

So, you finally broke down and got an 11 - I can just see the pain on the faces of the guys trying to hold your wheel when you hit that 53x11.

 

330watts on rollers - that is cooking!!  But I hear the world record is 164km/h at a cadence of 250+

 

The oke that road that speed must have been on some serious roids!!!

or that wasn't a standard bike and rollers. at around 55km/h me and the rollers start vibrating on the floor , end up 1m away from where you started.

 

 

 

 when I ride the rollers that fast it looks like a scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Snot, sweat, blood, tears and very loud Metallica.  Wife and children keep very far away.