Originally Posted by agarose2000

I got a set of rollers about 6 weeks ago, and have been using them on and off. I also use a CycleOps Fluid2 trainer, but live in Socal so riding outdoors is the norm unless it's dark out. Haven't had any problems with the rollers - can get a good sweat on them, and rarely fell over, even on my first time on them. Have gone up to 90 mins on them.

I'm not sold on them. They're not bad, but I far prefer my trainer. I can go much, much harder and focus on power, which seems to be the most critical thing for riding/racing.

I heard a ton about the "technique" benefits from the rollers, and I'll agree that you need a lot more technique to hold a line on the rollers compared to road. But, it's not THAT hard, and as well, I seriously question if it's that important to have a roller-riding degree of balance anyway. To me, the degree of line-holding is irrelevant to real-world riding. Far more important in fast pacelines are fast reaction times and experience. The rapid swerves you need to pull out when someone in front of you goes down (has happened to me) have nothing to do with roller skills. I feel a bit like roller skills are like knowing to do wheelies - more difficult to real world riding, but largely irrelevant in terms of actual racing and road performance.

Someone convince me to keep riding these things.