Rolling along?

[timidtom]

Others may have noticed a rather prolonged spell of inclement weather: have any of you tried fitting your ebikes with rollers, for use indoors as a training bike? I suppose that use of the motor would be optional but the possibility of 'cycling', with a DVD of the last holiday on the screen and a plate of biscuits close to hand, might perhaps restore the 'ebiker's grin' ? Any thoughts, flecc?
May the ewind be ever at your back (supplied by a fan heater ...)
Tom

 

[andy slow coach]

Would be best if you have a throttle! Could do loads of miles and no effort, umm maybe the throttle could be wedged open and the bike held up with a broom stick against the wall and left while we all go down the pub!

 

[flecc]

have any of you tried fitting your ebikes with rollers, for use indoors as a training bike? I suppose that use of the motor would be optional but the possibility of 'cycling', with a DVD of the last holiday on the screen and a plate of biscuits close to hand, might perhaps restore the 'ebiker's grin' ? Any thoughts, flecc?

Wouldn't work for me I'm afraid. I've tried various exercise machines and can't stand any of them for more than a minute or two, terminally boring. For me it's the real thing or the couch!

Maybe a full scale simulator with a vast wrap-around screen and surround sound for the video might just work, but that would cost the equivalent of a few hundred e-bikes and need a hangar to put it in.