Originally Posted by
Ilfalco2
Nope ....it came from 13 years of racing at a cat 2. I used them extensively during the winter months which included intervals. Without a smooth action you wont be doing much threshold work without flying off into the wall.
It takes concentration and hours of work to develop an efficient stroke. I also will add a single speed helps with this as well....another topic.
Well I've got 9 years of racing as a cat 1 (and still race), but that doesn't really mean anything..
So it sounds like you made it up. You would have the same stroke if you spent all that time on the road or on a trainer. 13 years of higher-level training has a way of making you "efficient" at the thing you're doing. Nothing about staring at your front wheel while riding on rollers is magical in that process.
But an efficient stroke from rollers? What exactly is that? You don't vertically bounce around? Would you if you've never been on rollers? No.
Maybe if you'd spent all those hours doing some harder repeats instead of working on that "smooth pedal stroke" you'd have gotten to a cat 1...
I jest, I jest.