Originally Posted by
southernfox
I have an omnium trainer (my team is also sponsored by them, but I had the trainer before that). DID not know about reversing the roller. That's really interesting. I love it: amazing for travel and a great combination of a traditional trainer and rollers.
Fantastic. yes, they said they don't mention the modification frequently because they don't want people taking the roller sleds apart....it will probably increase tech support calls, but I'm mechanically inclined enough to do it and they described how to do it without effing up the threads, etc, As soon as I get my other track bike back from the shop (rebuilding my rear wheel with the PowerTap track hub), maybe this weekend, I'm going to run a test. I'm going to ride both my pursuit/TT track bike (150psi) and standard track bike (115psi) on the track rollers at 90, 100, 120, and 130 rpm and measure the watts. And then I'm going to take one of the progressive resistance roller drums from my standard Omnium trainer, install it on the track rollers, and conduct the same test. So it will sort of be a hybrid Omnium roller unit - part progressive, part non-progressive.