Right now I split my time between my Bianchi and a spinner bike in my spare bedroom. With colder/shorter days coming on I see even more inside time (still deciding on my winter training plans).

I am mostly a solo rider (just me - I'm like that). But I will probably do a few club rides and maybe a road race or two next year. I have some paceline and limited racing experience from the late 90's, but that is it. So my bike handling skills are marginal at best.

I was considering doing some riding on rollers simply to improve my bike handling skills. But I was wondering just exactly what skills do rollers improve. I rode rollers a couple times back in the 90's - enough to have a feel for both how hard it is at first and how quickly you progress. But I doubt that I netted more than 2 hours total back then.

• My #1 'skill shortage' is probably just paceline riding. I guess I can see how rollers could be somewhat helpful here, but it would seem only a secondary kind of thing.
• Next would be cornering and rollers don't seem to really address this.
• Next is descending (certainly related to the previous point) with the same conclusion.

Is the skillset that rollers develop really just the ability to hold a laser straight line and smoother pedaling? If I decide to drag rollers into my world I'd like to understand what it is I am after here.

Thanks.

dave