Talk:Bicycle rollers

This looks like less of a stub to me than Exercise bicycle. —DIV (128.250.204.118 05:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC))

Corrections

Falling off

RE: Understand that if you slide off the side of the rollers but manage to stay upright, you will either fly into your television, or give your rug some nasty scuff marks, because your wheels will still be turning at 370 rpm., has this been White oak's or anyone else's experience? While I will second the scuff marks, when I have gone off the rollers, I just fall over without much forward motion. Has anyone experienced something different? If not, I may edit the above bullet point. Timdearborn 19:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the inertia of spinning wheels if unlikely to have much effect on an otherwise stationary bike and rider. I'd vote for editing out the 'fly into your television' claim. -AndrewDressel 03:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

"Fly into your television" claim edited out.-Timdearborn 05:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Riding on Rollers

Akaszynski removed the sentence "However, gravity is still in effect." after the sentence "Should a rider ride off the rollers, he will not fly into his television at 30 mph, though he may leave some nasty scuff marks on the carpet." This sentence was originally there to indicate that if one rides off the rollers, while he won't shoot forward, he will fall over. This is important to take into consideration when picking a place to ride on rollers. I would like to add this sentence back into the article in some form. Any thoughts or suggestions? -Timdearborn (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

How To Section

Beland added the tag, "The how-to sections in this article may be unencyclopedic." Oops. I didn't know that. I will try to rephrase the section in the next few days so that it contains the same information but "in a way that reduces their how-to-ishness" ( [1] )Timdearborn 01:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I rewrote the "How To" section, renaming it "Riding on Rollers", and then removed the "How To" flag. Timdearborn 04:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Goldsprint vs Roller Racing

Are these two names for the same thing? If so, we should merge or at least crosslink the articles. If not, please explain the difference. Perhaps Roller Racing is a sub category of Goldsprinting or visa versa. -AndrewDressel 14:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Requests

Comparisons

I think it would be good to see some comparisons on training results / effort / cost / portability etc. etc. between rollers, trainers, stationary bicycles, ...
—DIV (128.250.204.118 05:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)) ^{Superscript text}

Front Graphic

One cheesy picture of a dork from the front in his apartment, wearing a helmet no less? I think this article needs a much better graphic representation of a set of rollers, with more clear detail on the drive mechanism between the front and center rollers, then a picture of someone riding them, from the side, so you can see placement of the bike on the rollers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.76.105.235 (talk) 17:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, who would wear a helmet on rollers? It isn't like you could actually fall off and hit your head or anything. Oh wait, that's exactly what can happen. So we need a picture of some tough guy who isn't afraid to spend the rest of his life with brain damage. -AndrewDressel (talk) 17:40, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I am the non-brain-dead "dork" in the picture. (Sorry I didn't throw a bike jersey on - modeling for Wikipedia wasn't my intention at the time.) I had the photo shot intentionally in a narrow hallway of my house to give an idea how one can start learning how to ride on rollers. A helmet should be in any similar picture as best practice. A side shot is a good idea.Timdearborn (talk) 14:20, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

External Links

Does the YouTube video listed in the external links section ( http://thisiswonky.com/news.php?item=46 ) add anything substantive to the article? Timdearborn (talk) 16:49, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Bicycle rollers. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080107100811/http://www.kreitler.com:80/product.php?section=product&item=which_model to http://www.kreitler.com/product.php?section=product&item=which_model
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080107100730/http://www.kreitler.com:80/product.php?section=product&item=accessories to http://www.kreitler.com/product.php?section=product&item=accessories
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070107174909/http://www.rapha.cc:80/index.php?page=122 to http://www.rapha.cc/index.php?page=122
• Added {{dead link}} tag to http://www.bsca.org.uk/newwebsite/Records/Records/rollrecs.htm
• Added {{dead link}} tag to http://thefullsked.cloudaccess.net/featured-events/82-iowa-roller-race-series-information.html
• Added {{dead link}} tag to http://www.bickelsinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2011-Al-Kreitler-Memorial-Killer-2.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120805010934/http://www.mountainracingproducts.com:80/kreitler/about-kreitler/ to http://www.mountainracingproducts.com/kreitler/about-kreitler/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 20:53, 1 November 2016 (UTC)