The idea of periodically pumping the front wheel of a bike which is permanently locked to a trainer and never sees the road annoys me enough, but this morning i had to replace the tube.
No more.
In an attempt to avoid contributing $30 to the airless tire market, i'm hoping someone can recommend a fork mounting system for trainers (not rollers). I thought of devising something myself using wood and a quick release skewer, but frankly i don't trust my or my gf's health to my engineering ability (more so my lack thereof); google searches and chats with Those Who Know have thus far yielded nothing.

If not, can you at least recommend a cheap airless tire? Thirty is the lowest i've found for a 700c, which makes me frown.

Hm, spending the 30 bucks is probably better than rigging something up if you're not confident in doing so. However with some 2x4s, plenty of screws and some gorilla glue I bet it wouldn't be too hard to make something sturdy enough if you have a skewer lying around. Not sure if you could find something legit for less than 30 shipped anyways, though I admit I've never tried looking.

i don't mind paying more for something sturdy. 200+ rpm puts, i'm sure, one hell of a lot of stress on the rear axle when your front wheel is on a phone book.
can't really find anything out there that's not rollers specific, so it looks like an airless tire + one of those training blocks is in my future.

I had a pickup truck previously and made a mount for the forks that fit into the bed out of 2x8's and mounted 3 fork mount brackets (from yakima) onto them. I also used it for my trainer with minimum modification.

Our team rides on trainers for practice 5 times a week and we very rarely have to pump up our tires (front). I think that if you were losing that much air... you might have had a slow leak somewhere?

I guess... it depends on how often you're riding too though?

But yeah, I would just make a fork mount or use a sturdy structure or something.

between my gf and i, it's seeing at least one thirty minute session a day (at most like two hours between both of us).
i have to put air into it once every two weeks. not sure if the flat today was a pinch from being low or a slow leak ripping into a bigger hole (can that even happen?), but it was really annoying.

can you describe your truckbed fork mount? sounds interesting.

is putting air in it once a week really that bad? I never have any problems with my bike on the trainer with the front wheel in the trainer block

fork mount=some 4x4's stacked up and bolted to a piece of plywood with fatty holes drilled in the top and padded with some foam. Do the 4x4's in an H pattern for stability. Just stack up enough of em so it rides at the right height. I bet 2 high on the legs of the H and one or two across the top would do the trick.