Inside Ride E-Motion Rollers $650

[seanrunnette]

They're on eBay now, but I'll gladly part with them here for $600.

These are the latest model, H. I've used the hell out of these for the past year and a half, and they're so well made you'd never know it. Except for the 1" scratch on the bar from where I rode off 'em sprinting. Yes, you can ride off of them. It's really tough to do, but achievable.



Unlike reg'lar rollers, these are mounted on a frame that allows the upper, conventional roller assembly, to move back and forth as you ride, making no-hands a possibility inside the first fifteen minutes. Not kidding. There are bars that cradle the rear wheel and bumpers for the front, all there to keep you happily humming along.

Here's what it looks like when people with nice cameras shoot it:



AND Inside Ride has been beta-testing an ANT+/Bluetooth Smart resistance unit that piggybacks their already available wireless controller, enabling smart-trainer participation on Zwift and Erg Mode on Trainerroad. Sure, it sounds stupid now, but when it's no degrees outside and your crabon fat-bike is broken... Linky.

 

[Carson]

No reserve on eBay, eh???

 

[soulchild]

I'll trade you a brand new quad broken Van Dessel frameset and an autographed picture of @UtahJoe.

 

[Mountain Bike Mike]

I'll trade you a brand new quad broken Van Dessel frameset and an autographed picture of @UtahJoe.

sweet'n the deal and throw in a signed oversized Lou head from Lewis Morris - he'll never be able to turn that down.

 

[seanrunnette]

No reserve on eBay, eh???

It'll go high. I just don't like paying the reserve fees.

 

[seanrunnette]

I'll trade you a brand new quad broken Van Dessel frameset and an autographed picture of @UtahJoe.

Please tell me Edwin has already begun building your new bike. That was freakish.

 

[soulchild]

Please tell me Edwin has already begun building your new bike. That was freakish.

Freakish indeed. I am fully expecting to have it back in the next couple of days. I dropped the bike off right from 6mile to someone who works at VD. They reached out to Edwin and he said he would swap everything over to a new frame ASAP.

 

[jnos]

Freakish indeed. I am fully expecting to have it back in the next couple of days. I dropped the bike off right from 6mile to someone who works at VD. They reached out to Edwin and he said he would swap everything over to a new frame ASAP.

Edwin is good like that. Hooked me up with a new fork when I sheared mine off below the stem at Granogue a few years back.

 

[soulchild]

I'm sure he is. I have heard nothing but good things about him, and Van Dessel. I have to be honest though and say I'm feeling really suspect about how badly this frame failed from a solitary remount.

Let's not derail. I do have a feeling I'm going to kick myself in the ass for not buying this. @davidcarson48 planted the seed over the winter and this is probably going to be my next big purchase.

 

[Dominos]

@seanrunnette does this mean you are going to start riding not on rollers?

 

[Norm]

I'm not sure what's next for him. Gives up riding outside. Gives up riding inside. I guess he's just going to play some sort of bike video game now.

 

[seanrunnette]

It's mental-imaging for me from now on!

 

[jackx]

DIY w/ rolling pins? Is there a new Wii biking program or new Wii rollers?

 

[seanrunnette]

Soldy McSolderson! They've gone to a much faster home.