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Torque Wrench required for trainer cassette installation?
How important is torque wrench on this?
It's not important at all. The cassette lockring just has to be tight enough to not come off as it's not doing anything other than keeping the cassette from ...
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Wahoo Kickr Core power cable snapped
That is low voltage - probably 12 Volts at most. If you're not comfortable with a soldering iron then any competent electronics hobbiest person could fix this.
You'd bare the four ends, twist the ...
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Do you need brakes on a trainer / on rollers?
No. For fixed trainer, it should be obvious.
For rollers, rolling resistance is higher on rollers than on flat surface. Wheels don't also have much momentum, so you can slow down by freewheeling for ...
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Tips for a novice cyclist wanting to get fit with a turbo trainer before summer
A very broad question, but i'll do my best to answer it.
The way you approach it will very much depend on your general level of fitness (maybe crossing over from some other sport) and what your ...
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Tips for a novice cyclist wanting to get fit with a turbo trainer before summer
A lot of cyclists find they need motivation to train on a static trainer. It can be unrelentingly tedious to sit spinning on you bike staring at the same wall when you are used to nice scenery going ...
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Using turbo trainer with solid axles
Installing quick release axles requires completely replacing the axle. It's possible but does require a few extra tools and parts to disassemble the rear hub. If you install a QR, don't forget to ...
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Do you need brakes on a trainer / on rollers?
I find brakes help with stability on rollers. When mounting/dismounting hold the brakes so your bike does not roll off the front or back of the rollers. Additionally, if you lose focus while spinning ...
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Wahoo Kickr Snap vs Kickr Core: both good for at home training? Is the Snap suitable for hard workouts?
If possible, it is better to get a direct drive trainer like the Kickr Core. They have better road feel than wheel-on trainers like the Kickr Snap. Additionally, with wheel-on trainers, you can get a ...
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Are dropout adjustment screws necessary on an indoor trainer?
Your intuition is correct. The screws aren't strictly necessary on or off the trainer. The clamping force of the quick-release skewer should be enough to secure the trainer or wheel to the frame.
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What's the power supply for a Saris CycleOps PowerBeam Pro turbo trainer?
This Reddit thread has a response from Saris giving the exact specs:
Good Morning,
Thanks for reaching out to Saris about your trainer.
Though we stopped making our PowerBeam trainers in 2016 and ...
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Smart trainer & CX bike compatibility
I will try to answer as best i can without going into too much detail,
1 : With a 15c rim you can mount 23, 25, 28 and 32 tires Sheldon brown Tire Sizing
2 : Bike weight, Tacx don't specifically ...
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Able to shift to final gear on bike, but not on smart trainer
When it's a 10-speed bike involved in this situation, here is the calculus:
If someone put a cassette spacer on the trainer wider than the proper 1.85mm 10 to 11 speed conversion spacer, it causes ...
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What adjustments do I need to make for changing rear cassette?
You should be fine to remove the bikes rear wheel and put the frame on your trainer with the new 8 speed cassette left there permanently. Both cassettes are 8 speed, so that's good.
However, the ...
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Torque Wrench required for trainer cassette installation?
Not mentioned so far - a torque wrench has two functions. One is to ensure enough torque is used to make the nut grip as required by the application. The second is to ensure you don't overtighten/...
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Heavier riders on bike trainers?
Trainers that clip onto your rear wheel aren’t a good option if you’re over their weight limits. They support much of your weight on your rear axle quick release and this can put a lot of stress on ...
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What adjustments do I need to make for changing rear cassette?
You understand right that the different tooth counts should not require any adjustment. The b-tension will be a touch out further than it would be if it were set for the 32 rather than the 34, but ...
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Tacx / Wahoo / Zwift turbo trainer advice/recommendations?
There are some aspects of the question that can be answered.
If possible, I would recommend stepping up to a direct drive trainer if you can, even if it's an entry-level one. With this type of trainer,...
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Tacx / Wahoo / Zwift turbo trainer advice/recommendations?
I've also bought an old beater bike that lives on my trainer full-time, and I recommend that approach (although I've abused mine so much that I will need to replace it sooner rather than later).
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Wahoo Kickr Snap vs Kickr Core: both good for at home training? Is the Snap suitable for hard workouts?
I've been using Kickr Core for a couple of seasons from the year it first got out in the market, and in comparison with a rear-tyre mounted turbo, it's a night and day difference. Now I haven't used ...
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Shimano and Sram compatibility on Wahoo Kickr
TLDR: officially no.
Chain compatibility becomes a bit messy from 12 speed.
SRAM has two kinds of 12 speed chains: "standard" and "flattop" (used on the Red AXS), that are ...
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Which road bike to match turbo trainer?
I believe that this link at Halfords is the same model you have. As links to online retailers are often impermanent, I'm reproducing one of Halfords' pictures of the bike, focusing on the front fork. ...
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Torque Wrench required for trainer cassette installation?
Having the exact torque generally isn’t very important. I recommend finding a way to torque it properly the first time you change a cassette so you get a feel for how roughly tight it should be. It’s ...
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Gears switch automatically on smart trainer
First, this is not a between-brands compatibility issue. Microshift products are generally compatible with Shimano. In fact, in 11 speed and below groupsets, Shimano, SRAM, Microshift and others all ...
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Bike attached to TACX flux smart trainer makes a clunking house and chain feels like skipping
I had the same thing. It's the screw on spacer on the axle (cassette side coming loose. Screw it back in again and solved. For me anyway.
Use the spacer on the non-drive side to get the internal ...
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Can I use a Triban RC120 with a TacX direct drive smart trainer?
It should work:
the freebody is the almost the same as the R8: the trainer has the longer version of the Shimano Hyperglide free body (to allow 11 speeds road cassettes). You will need a spacer to ...
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Tacx Flow Smart trainer calibration issues with 700x35c tyre
After listening to advice from @Carel, I warmed the tyres up for 20 minutes, a lot more than I would have envisaged, and I finally got consistent results being able to calibrate more than once.
After ...
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Using a 9 speed cassette with a 11 speed shifter
Nope.
Above 6 (or 7, can't remember which) speeds the spacing of the sprockets gets narrower as the number of sprockets increases. So, you can't use a cassette with a mismatched number of sprockets - ...
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Wahoo Kickr Snap vs Kickr Core: both good for at home training? Is the Snap suitable for hard workouts?
The Kickr Core has been touted as a having almost all of what Wahoo's flagship model, the Kickr, offers, at a significantly lower price than the Kickr. Having ridden a high-quality wheel-on trainer (...
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Turbo Trainer Cassette vs Bike Gears
The name 8/9/10 speed freehub is in fact misleading. You can use 7 speed cassette on the trainer, but you'll need 4.5mm spacer for that (that you install on the freehub body before the cassette).
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Using a 9 speed cassette with a 11 speed shifter
On a trainer, if you were to just set it in a gear and never shift, it would work. But the distance between cogs is different between 9-speed and 11-speed so shifting would not work well. At best, you ...
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