Study of Power meters.They are really same as HR monitors, but lot more expensive.

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Slightly off topic question for you if I may. I am a road rider, race occasionally. I train with use of power meter. It is off season here in Mi so much is done on rollers. Would it be of any benefit to do some riding now on a fixed gear bike?
If you would rather talk off line that is fine.
thanks
Rob

What matters most is doing the work, not so much the bike you do it on (provided it fits properly), nor whether it's a fixie or freewheel.

Rollers may or may not be great for lots of works, depends on whether your rollers can provide sufficient resistance for quality training. So do, some don't, they all vary in resistance depending on lots of factors.

With a fixie on rollers, you have a more limited range of effort level to work within, which might be OK on some days, but on others where you might want to do harder interval efforts with recoveries, you'll probably need gears. Unless your rollers have a really good resistance load controller attached.

Main thing is doing the work, so if riding the fixie on rollers helps with motivation to do the work, that's a good thing.

 

[Boeing]

What matters most is doing the work, not so much the bike you do it on (provided it fits properly), nor whether it's a fixie or freewheel.

Rollers may or may not be great for lots of works, depends on whether your rollers can provide sufficient resistance for quality training. So do, some don't, they all vary in resistance depending on lots of factors.

With a fixie on rollers, you have a more limited range of effort level to work within, which might be OK on some days, but on others where you might want to do harder interval efforts with recoveries, you'll probably need gears. Unless your rollers have a really good resistance load controller attached.

Main thing is doing the work, so if riding the fixie on rollers helps with motivation to do the work, that's a good thing.

dude a fixie on rollers is hells bells sketchy; resistance aside

 

[twothirds]

dude a fixie on rollers is hells bells sketchy; resistance aside

It's not sketchy at all. Just need some practice. I was able to ride no hands on rollers within a month of first trying them. Same with aerobars. Hell, I used to read textbooks to make better use of my time. As long as you can see the front wheel and roller in your peripheral vision you'll be fine. Regular practice is obviously helpful, but riding a fixed gear on rollers isn't that much different than a geared bike.

 

[CoachFergie]

How have track cyclists been doing it for last 100 years and last 20 years on aerobars? Every year at track nationals I teach a new crop of juniors how to do it and they pick it up in 5mins tops.

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

dude a fixie on rollers is hells bells sketchy; resistance aside

Hardly. It's the preferred warm up tool of trackies world wide. Apart from track, I also use them to warm up for crits, road races and TTs.

Only thing (apart from lack of practice) that would make using a roller sketchy is the front roller not matching the bike's wheelbase. And that's irrespective of whether you are on a fixed gear or not.

 

[acoggan]

How have track cyclists been doing it for last 100 years

And often on really narrow rollers to boot:

 

[CoachFergie]

Too cool! If the guys on wattage can do their max rpm training on those I would actually be impressed.

 

[acoggan]

Too cool!

I've seen even narrower ones (only ~4" wide) used for track warm-up, but don't know who made/makes them.

When my wife started training again in 2007 I replaced a bad bearing in her Minoura rollers so that she could use them for recovery rides. While I was at it, I wrapped a piece of blue electrician's tape around the left edge of the front roller, put a black piece in the middle, and a red one on the right.

 

[CoachFergie]

That's good, that's very good

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

I've seen even narrower ones (only ~4" wide) used for track warm-up, but don't know who made/makes them.

Really handy for travel, much more lightweight and compact.