Inside Ride eMotion Roller System Rollers Reviews

Price Paid:  $0.00

Favorite Ride:
Burke Gillman Trail

Summary:
When I first saw your e-motion trainer I was impressed, but that quickly went away when I saw that the guy ridding it (he had rode it for almost 3000 miles at the time I saw him), a Gulf War Veteran riding in support of our troops, had a broken arm, when I asked him how that happened, he told me he had fallen off the trainer. I think I changed my mind immediately and realized how dangerous your trainer could be, if you go off the rollers while riding it. I don't think I'll be buying one any time soon, until this design peril is solved.

Strengths:
Smooth ride, feels like you're actually ridding

Weaknesses:
You run the risk of getting off the rollers and hurt yourself pretty bad.

Comments

D Rich (01/05/2012)

I have used the rollers for three seasons of indoor training. It is impossible to ride off the rollers, there is no design flaw. You can however, tip over, if you do not maintain your balance, just like riding your bike outside. The rollers are worth the investment.

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Price Paid:  $800.00 at Company Direct

Favorite Ride:
any mountaln

Bike Setup:
Parlee Z2
Ax lightness deadalusseatpost, orion brakes. parlee FD clamp
Zipp Crank, SL handlebars
Enve 1.45 tubulars with vittorias with Tune hubs,
Extralite stem, headset
Lizard tape
Sram Red levers, rear/front derailers
aligator cable and housing
Tune Speedneedle

Summary:
This is my 4th season on these rollers. Can do everything from sprint intervals, mountain simulation, endurance rides etc. Anything as on the road. No maintence needed so far. Still the original belt. A great engaged workout. This was my first rollers and in about 20 minutes up and riding comfortably. No hands in about an hour.

Strengths:
Well Built.
Excellent settings for varied workouts

Weaknesses:
Power Meter Readings if you are using their table off by 30-50 watts for me per level when compared to my powertap. Not accurate at all for me. Also a handle adjustment of resistance settings would be nice.

Similar Products Used:
none. My first set of rollers. But compared to stationary mag/fluid trainers beats them hands down.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
How do you know if these reviews are a plant by the manufacturer or outright manipulated lies from a media control agency?

Comments

patmac (11/11/2011)

Oh Mark, if only you knew how good these were compared to standard rollers. While Kreitlers are extremely well made, they are not the safest and require too much money in add-ons for any sort of reasonable resistance. Stationary trainers are good for short and hard intervals, but don't do much to improve your riding experience or technique. Have you actually taken a spin on one of these?? You might change your tune.

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Price Paid:  $850.00 at Inside Ride

Bike Setup:
Trek 5500 carbon, Ultegra group, Mavic Ksyrium SSC wheels

Summary:
Awesome!! This is the best training tool I have ever used. Never used my old mag trainer-couln't stand it. I have over 3 dozen rides on these rollers so far. I will come into the riding season in shape rather than have to start building up in the spring. Can stand out of the saddle, do intervals, easy spinning, you name it. Easy to use-had never used rollers before and could ride these the very first time. Highly recommended!!! Look forward to my training rides. Great for specific training, great for those who live in rainy/cold weather.

Strengths:
Outstanding quality
Easy to use
Realistic road feel

Weaknesses:
None

Similar Products Used:
Mag trainer

Price Paid:  $650.00 at ebay

Favorite Ride:
Gatineau Park

Bike Setup:
Nice

Summary:
I've had very little experience on rollers prior to getting the e-motions. I did my homework and looked at a number of different options for winter training. Because of the resistance, these won over several other fantastic rollers. I did not expect that I would be doing intervals, sprint work and climbing on these rollers... but with my power tap, it is now the only thing I need to train through the winter. The e-motion rollers saved my winter training - bottom line. I have hammered on these things for 2 years, and they are still quiet, smooth and I look forward to riding them, whereas my trainer was looking more like some cruel torture device after 1 month.
I was asked if I rode a regular set of rollers, would the skills be transferable from the floating rollers - yep. I mount fixed rollers with a little more than one pedal stroke - I'm more attentive, but that is it. An added benefit that I noticed is that my core strength on the bike is improved in the spring. Definitely worth the extra cash if you want what I think is the best off-season training tool out there.

Strengths:
Variable resistance
Smooth bearings
Well designed and excellent machining
Seemingly bombproof
Able to crank out wattage which almost matches wattage put out on the road.
Quiet
Best thing to match road feel while riding inside

Weaknesses:
These are a wish list rather than weaknesses:
If it could be engineered; wattage and remote resistance variation would make this thing absolutely complete.

Similar Products Used:
TrueTrainer, Tacx rollers, other various rollers.
Computrainer, Tacx trainers, other trainers.