bassplayinbiker

Im not sure where to put this so here goes:

Wen i ride on my trainer, its much much much harder to do than on the road. Its a cycle ops trainer, Im not exactly sure which model though. Brand new from coach. I dont want to ask him in fear of looking stupid.

The predal stroke is un even, and it feels too mushey. I cant even spin on the thing, on my easiest gear.

Im thinking im overtighting the thing that tuches my tire, but if i losen it, my tire will slip on it, and make a squeaking sound, and barely tuch it.

What am i doing wrong?

zhmontana

Not sure what you mean by 'mushy'. First be sure you don't have brake drag and that your wheel is true. Then make sure the bike is mounted in the trainer correctly and that it isn't tightened down so much that you are putting too much 'squeeze' on your rear QR. Then tighten it against the rear wheel just enough so the wheel doesn't slip and then use your easiest gear to start and then move to harder gears as you increase your spin. The resistance should be progressive with the speed, so should be easy in your easiest gear and get progressively harder. If your wheel is slipping, it might feel hard, easy, hard easy as the wheel slips and then gains traction, that could be considered mushy perhaps. If this is the case you need to tighten against the wheel more. If you do all of these things and it is still extremely hard to ride, then there must be an issue with the trainer. Good luck.

lotek 

I have a Fluid(2) also and what you describe sounds like one of two
things to me. Either your resistance unit is too tight against the tire
(you want it to not slip but not so tight as to cause too much resistance
without high power). The other thing I found is the fluid is thicker (more
viscous) until it "warms up" a bit, at least thats what I thought. I seem
to recall it taking about 5 minutes or so to loosen up.
You can alway call cyclops (Graber sports) they have great
customer service.
Marty

2manybikes

Make sure your tire is filled to the top pressure setting before every session !!!

Serpico

Go to https://www.cycle-ops.com/ and look at the pics, come back and tell us which model.

Good luck.

CAAD5AL

I have an older fluid unit, but weren't there some that had both a fluid unit AND a mechanical unit in one? If so, it almost sounds like the mechanical resistance is cranked up?