Fixed gear on home trainer?

Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not rollers?

I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

regards,

maciek

From: Maciek Ostaszewski:



I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer like tacx swing. Will it work? Is it safe for home
trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

Don't know the "tacx" unit, track nuts don't work and are not safe on my
Cyclops Mag trainer. After falling out (once) with nutted track wheel, I
started bringing my street fixed wheel to warm up on at the track, 120 spacing
and QR. No prob with slipping using that wheel. --TP

Maciek- Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not
rollers? BRBR
I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese? BRBR

I say, sure it will. Great idea. No need to change anything.

Peter Chisholm
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Boulder, CO, 80302
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If this is a TACX Swing, the 120 rear won't fit. The clamping/locking
bolts will not go that tight - I can just fit my 130 rear in with three
or four threads showing on the clamping/locking bolt.

From:

If this is a TACX Swing, the 120 rear won't fit. The clamping/locking
bolts will not go that tight - I can just fit my 130 rear in with three
or four threads showing on the clamping/locking bolt.

Oh yeah, I forgot: the Cyclops wouldn't work either until I took a part off (a
plastic cover or something), letting the moving clamp part move over further.
Even very tightly cranked, the Cyclops cups would not hold a "normal" Campy 120
nutted track axle. --TP

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:44:38 +0100, Maciek Ostaszewski
wrote:

Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not rollers?

I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

regards,

maciek

Real men ride rollers. You're clearly halfway to being a man by riding
fixed, so step up.
Kinky Cowboy*

*Batteries not included
May contain traces of nuts
Your milage may vary

"Maciek Ostaszewski" wrote in message
...
Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not
rollers?

I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

I don't know about the clamp on yours. I have a Q/R on mine and I have no
problem with a Blackburn mag trainer. In fact, the only bike I ever use on
it anymore is the fixer. I don't know why, I think I just enjoy being able
to pedal in either direction.

Maciek Ostaszewski wrote in message ...
Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not rollers?

I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

regards,

maciek

I have a Tacx Flow trainer and use a fixed gear setup on it. The 120
spacing isn't wide enough as is, though. I threaded a second set of
axle nuts onto the ends of the axles, thus making the effective
distance between outer ends of the axle nuts quite a bit longer. It
works fine, albeit with the adjustment on the trainer maxed out.

I'm thinking of putting a longer axle in the hub, so that I can spread
the axle nuts out a little further (using washers).

Maciek Ostaszewski wrote:

Does the fixed gear bike work on home trainer (like tacx swing, not
rollers?

I have an old track bike (120mm or less rear hub spacing, nuts) and want
to use it on home trainer. Will it work? Is it safe for home trainer? Do
I need to change my axle to quick realese?

My Tacx trainer won't grip track nuts. If you have a hollow rear axle
and can use the supplied QR skewer, you will be fine.

My Performance fluid millenium trainer doesnt work very well with track nuts-
its wobbles a bit, and the spacing is off. I switched to a hollow axle/QR,
which fixes both problems.