Originally Posted by rubiksoval

You agree that riding rollers lets you "have a faster ride with less work?'

That statement makes ZERO sense. You ride faster by increasing power (so more work), or decreasing resistant forces. So already that statement is nonsensical.

So maybe you started producing more power at lower heart rates or something similar only because you rode on the rollers? Did you measure that? No, of course not, because hardly anyone had a power meter in the 80s and 90s.

So we're left with you thinking you rode faster because you want to think you rode faster because you spent the whole winter slogging it out on rollers. Not exactly empirical evidence, here, and when you get right down to it sounds like we're back to making stuff up.