New tyre for trainer

[screenman]

I still go by not needing to buy a specific tyre, think about it, the turbo was about for may be 25 years before somebody decided, and this just happened to be a tyre manufacturer that they could sell a specific tyre.

Aycee, your turbo may well be set up wrong, as a family we have 3 turbo's set up all the time. None of these run a specific tyre and have never seen what you experienced.

To the OP the chances of you still riding the turbo in say 3 weeks time is not good judging by most people. I hope you prove me wrong.

 

[junkie_ball]

Well all sorted thought i'd have a quick look on ebay for a cheap rim to save messing around with the changing of tyres all the time. Looked just at the right time as for sale with less than 2 mins was a pair of wheels that came off the same model of bike as mine and even better had the same cassette installed on the rear wheel with the same gear ratios as i currently have on my bike and all for only £38.

Will definitely be using my turbo this winter as need to keep my mileage up over the winter for the early season sportives / races and living in the middle of no where without street lighting make going out on my own after work is impractical at time and to my own unfortunately knowledge sometime just dam right dangerous. Although with the set up i now have it will be easy to drop my road rims on and head on out at the weekend.

 

[themosquitoking]

I was setting up my wifes bike for use with a turbo and went down the dedicated back wheel for it route, the lbs found an old wheel out the back for a tenner.

 

[ayceejay]

A trainer specific tyre like the Vittoria is made from a compound designed to deal with the heat that spinning on a turbo creates it would no doubt be useless on the road. A tyre like my Clements is made from a different compound that is specific for grip, rolling resistance and puncture resistance on the road and burns from friction running on metal, I don't think rubber burning from friction is rocket science screenman and if you prefer to burn a regular tyre on a turbo that is fine by me but if you don't burn 'em before your wear 'em out you ain't pedaling fast enough.

 

[bpsmith]

I love comments like 'turbo trainers have been around a lot longer than turbo trainer tyres'. It's like saying cars were around a lot longer than seat belts. Or penny farthings were around way before the road bike. Like innovation can't improve anything.