Hard to imagine riding no hands, taking your jersey off while on rollers. We'll see. At my age, taking my jersey off strikes horror in the eyes of anyone within 100 yards. As to the helmet, I read that whoever specs these things (DOT??) specs helmets to withstand just a fall off the bike, regardless of forward speed, as the fall of a head from the riding height (5 feet?) is the worst case impact. And the rollers add another 1/2 foot of height. Regardless I'm not worried given the 'cage' I have set around me. "The latest thing from NASA" (Wallace to Gromit.....)

Last night was, again, better than before. I'm finding that riding back on the rivets works better. I'm also finding that no way I can DT shift at this point. I did set the tranny gear-inches higher and that worked better. 53-16 on the Nishiki Int'l. Even in that gear I could accelerate surprisingly fast. Sorta fun. So I just rolled (or is that rollered? or Roollered?) along thru 3 Chris Smither songs ~ 10 minutes steady. OK. I'm also now infrequently and only gently bumping 'the walls' so control is improving. I'm also pretending to relax: light grip on the bars, target fixating on a paint can out ahead and spinning about 100rpm. Day by day.

BTW, I'm only playing with this now as I have the opportunity. I normally never do indoor cycling this time of year. I want to decide soon on whether or not to buy these rollers for regular winter work.

Say here's a trick - can anyone track stand on rollers while texting your girl friend and smoking a cigar? That might make @Ed. happy - good story.