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royale
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Do any of you peoples know anything about stationary trainers?
Was thinking that is cold, wet and dangerous outside so was thinking about getting one.
Torpedo7 just sent me an email for a Tranz X mag trainer (JD-111) for AU$170 (supposed to retail for over $400).
Is there much difference between brands models etc?
Wilchemy
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Is that the trainer with the free HR monitor?
climbo
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not really, I have a fluid one (Trek branded Cyclops one), nice and quiet but farkin boring. I recommend no more than 45 minutes on one pre week. :)
Wilchemy
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Haha... more bike chat on here in two days than two weeks on TAT. What's with that?
And so how DO you start the TVR?
royale
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Is that the trainer with the free HR monitor?
Yep, sure is.
I'm going for a record see if i can place an order every week (damn those emails they send)
2 weeks ago it was a work stand, then a cassette, crankset and chain, not this week is looking like a trainer!
Wilchemy
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Yep, sure is.
I'm going for a record see if i can place an order every week (damn those emails they send)
2 weeks ago it was a work stand, then a cassette, crankset and chain, not this week is looking like a trainer!
What was the workstand like? I was thinking of getting one but the budget is tapped out.
I've seen the TACX trainers over here. They look okay for the price. Dunno about the HR monitor but it has more functions than my crappy old Polar
royale
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not really, I have a fluid one (Trek branded Cyclops one), nice and quiet but farkin boring. I recommend no more than 45 minutes on one pre week. :)
I figure it would be boring, but i thought i could watch tv or read a book. :D
I'm trying to put in a bit more of a training effort but its hard finding the time and stuff.
I ride after work a couple of times a week but riding at night in traffic in the wet is not to safest feeling. I figure if I spend enough time out there in those conditions it'll eventually end in tears.
I could always try and find some safer routes.
Any of you ride after 5 in melbourne during the week?
What are some good routes for the time of day?
classic1
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Haha... more bike chat on here in two days than two weeks on TAT. What's with that?
And so how DO you start the TVR?
Have you ever read how TVR got its name. Letters out of the founders first name. TreVoR.:rolleyes:
'I'm taking my new Trevor for a drive.' Or 'I'm, taking my new twevow fow a dwive.':) TVRs have always had quality issues. All those different owners, all those years and they still can't put this things together properly.
royale
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What was the workstand like? I was thinking of getting one but the budget is tapped out.
I've seen the TACX trainers over here. They look okay for the price. Dunno about the HR monitor but it has more functions than my crappy old Polar
Work stand is awesome. Really nice design. Folds down and doesn't weigh much. So good to take to enduro's etc.
All the foldy slidey bits are quick release. Can't go wrong for the money (I paid AU$115).
classic1
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Send in a moderator existance. I suggest Koffee...
Anan.
Wilchemy
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Any of you ride after 5 in melbourne during the week?
What are some good routes for the time of day?
Depends where in Melb you are. I sometimes go out Canterbury Rd to Ringwood then loop back via Maroondah Hwy to Box Hill at night. Normally after 8pm tho.
There's the "Alpine Tour of the Suburbs" on Thursdays too
Jono L
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Any of you ride after 5 in melbourne during the week?
What are some good routes for the time of day?
Kew or Yarra Boulevard. I spent many hours in the dark after 5pm around the kew boulevard, it is relatively car free.
Beach Road between Black Rock and Mordi ain't bad either, the traffic to get there sucks but once past Black Rock the traffic is fine and the trip back towards the CBD is fine also.
Albert Park is not too bad either, trafficy but not to bad plenty of room for cyclists, just watch pit straight with those barriers thingy's.
Velodromes-Brunswick, Hawthorn, Caulfield, Footscray, Coburg (need a key) boring but so very safe...
Jono L
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Depends where in Melb you are. I sometimes go out Canterbury Rd to Ringwood then loop back via Maroondah Hwy to Box Hill at night. Normally after 8pm tho.
There's the "Alpine Tour of the Suburbs" on Thursdays tooPlus the tuesday night Beach Road ride.
Wilchemy
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Worst thing about the boulevards is the crappy road surface - and bloody dark if you don't have decent lights (me!) The TT for the Herald sun Tour this year is on Kew Blvd. Perhaps they will re-surface it?:rolleyes:
Hawthorn velo gets good light spill from the hockey grounds.
royale
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I live in Brunswick so I try to loop back to here.
I currently ride the City->Yarra Blvd->Kew Blvd->Brunswick loop a couple of times a week, and yeah is really safe but getting sick of it.
I'd like to extend it a bit too. I started riding from Fairfield all the way up victoria st then up to bell st but didn't know where to go next.
Some cars pull out of those side streets pretty quick though. And when your cruising along at 30 or so kays an hour its hardly enough time to stop.
royale
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My training stratagy is probably not quite right (woohoo NQR :)).
I try to fit all my training in without having to go too far out of my way, yet I still expect to some how get in 300-400kms a week.
So going out on a Tuesday night to train is foreign to me.
Maybe what I really need some commitment.
531Aussie
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who is anythony g? hmmmmm....http://cyclingforums.com/images/smilies/frown.gifhe was never really one of the boys. :p
why do you ask, 2 Dogs?
EDIT: don't worry, I just saw the post on Bike Forums
531Aussie
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Plus the tuesday night Beach Road ride.do you do that ride? I'm trying to give it up coz it's a bit late. They don't start the 'fangin' until about 7:30pm
531Aussie
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My training stratagy.On a good day i'll get out by 5pm, but usually after. If Beach Rd is busy, I can go a back way down to Mordy, then ride the beach, inbound, which is pretty good, right up to (at least) Luna Park.
flipper
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he was never really one of the boys. :p
why do you ask, 2 Dogs?
he's been putting the boot in.
EDIT - ah, bugger ;)
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