Originally Posted by
agarose2000
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I've got both rollers and a CycleOps Fluid2 trainer, and I've ridden both fairly hard, although admittedly, the rollers get way too sktechy on those 110% interval sets for me to be comfortable using them.
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Originally Posted by
agarose2000
And despite this video, I GUARANTEE that these guys can put out more power if they went all-out on a fixed trainer vs rolllers. That's my point - I never said rollers couldn't give you a hard workout (they do for me if I go fast enough!) but the effort to stay upright will eventually limit you at your topmost 1-2% effort no matter how good you are on rollers.
Actually, you did. 110%, I assume, means a little above threshold, which is basically your lowest effort/longest time interval. If you can't do that, you aren't really doing intervals anymore now are you. Also, intervals != all-out. It means targeted efforts for targeted times.
About your guarantee? Anyone who can hold a bike straight at 200+rpm can easily hold their bike straight during an interval. Just gotta keep your eyes open. Once you can ride a bike like they do, you aren't concentrating on keeping a line anymore. Your body pretty much does that on it's own, automatically.
But this is besides the point. I most of my post was referring to the training of smooth bike handling skills and suplesse pedaling style using rollers. You seem to deny there is anything to bike handling besides learning to corner and undertaking emergency maneuvers. In this, you are wrong.
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