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What to do with exercise bike?

  • 20-09-2010 10:13pm
    #1
    shg101
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭


    Foolishly some time ago I bought an exercise bike, should and would have bought a turbo trainer if I'd known they existed.

    Anyway, now I have both - is there any use I can put the exercise bike to (no, the wife won't use it) or should I flog it? Is it any good for very high resistance strength work for example?

    On a related note, my expensive carbon Felt tri bike that I recently bought 2nd hand is hooked up to the turbo. It flexes like crazy when I'm on it (I'm currently just over 14 stone, not going to get much lighter), and is really putting me off. The Spinervals DVDs I'm thinking of getting seem to have off-the-saddle sections in them that I ain't going to do on my TT bike on the turbo.

    I'm considering getting a very cheap old racer and putting aerobars on it and trying to match the TT set-up. Is this worthwhile or am I over-reacting? (This would mean I would have 3 bikes (good road bike, good TT bike, turbo-only bike). Then I need a bike to commute on.... divorce beckons.)

    Apologies for the stream of conciousness. To summarise: is my exercise bike of any use and should I get a cheap old racer for the turbo?


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  • #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,142 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    If you sell the exercise bike, you'll free up space for another real bike. No divorce necessary.

    FWIW I wouldn't worry about flex on the turbo. Why does it bother you?


  • #3
    on_the_nickel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭on_the_nickel


    They make for excellent clothes hangers.


  • #4
    shg101
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭shg101


    Lumen wrote: »
    FWIW I wouldn't worry about flex on the turbo. Why does it bother you?

    The engineer in me doesn't like the new stresses being placed on the frame, which are very different to those normally placed on it.

    I glean from the internet that this is not a problem, but....

    So am I correct in thinking all you experts put your best machines on the turbo?


  • #5
    shg101
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭shg101


    Well, I've decided to sell the exercise bike and risk the TT bike on the turbo.

    Need the cash to part-finance the tools needed to lift myself from mid-table mediocrity:

    - Power meter
    - Wheel jacket
    - Garmin of some sort
    - Spinervals DVDs


  • #6
    chakattack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭chakattack


    What's a wheel jacket?


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  • #7
    shg101
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭shg101


    chakattack wrote: »
    What's a wheel jacket?

    It's a device for checking whether anyone is reading my thread.

    Seriously though, meant to say 'aero jacket', it's what all but a tiny proportion of people call a wheel or disc cover.


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