Hello forum,
Today I was mulling over how to get better training on my rollers, and suddenly had a brainwave about grabbing an old electric motor from work and coupling it to the front roller via a belt.
It seems to my simple brain that I should be able to generate electricity and read off the amount generated on a meter for some idea of the volume of work I'm doing. Maybe even feed it to a phone charger or a battery and inverter to do something useful. Maybe even vary the load dynamically based on a program?
Is this something others have attempted? I've seen articles on making bike-based generators, but nothing to do with training on rollers.
Or am I crazy?
Using an electric motor on rollers
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Not 100% pertinent, but I belive one of the mid-range Elite trainers runs on the power you generate.
The legacy Tacx Genius was designed to return excess energy to the grid when the users power output exceeded the input. Also, the Tacx Flux/Flux S/Neo/Neo 2 can all be used un-plugged with only a Garmin or Wahoo head unit.
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It'll give you something to think about while you're on the rollers. If you had a fixed trainer you could actually fiddle with it while you exercised. . Seems like it'd be easier to just grab a smart trainer resistance unit and cable that up to the roller - https://www.ebay.com/itm/TACX-RECONDITI ... :rk:5:pf:0 You'd then have resistance too.wlbm wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:38 amHello forum,
Today I was mulling over how to get better training on my rollers, and suddenly had a brainwave about grabbing an old electric motor from work and coupling it to the front roller via a belt.
It seems to my simple brain that I should be able to generate electricity and read off the amount generated on a meter for some idea of the volume of work I'm doing. Maybe even feed it to a phone charger or a battery and inverter to do something useful. Maybe even vary the load dynamically based on a program?
Is this something others have attempted? I've seen articles on making bike-based generators, but nothing to do with training on rollers.
Or am I crazy?
I think this is just a hall effect sensor you could try - https://amzn.to/2EfuXvF It is said to work with Elite's rollers - https://www.probikekit.com/turbo-traine ... lsrc=aw.ds