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Stationary Bike vs. Road riding
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 2004-08-24 2:54 PM |
Member 10 Richmond, VA |  Subject: Stationary Bike vs. Road ridingI am on a college campus, which has some nice neighborhoods to run in, but I haven't found any great streets to bike along. The few good ones I have found have stoplights at least every half or quarter of a mile. I seem to get great workouts on the stationary bike, cause I can force myself to keep my rpms up for the entire ride, whereas the road riding, I seem to have to slow down for lights, or even stop. How important is it to road bike, if I do it once or twice a week while stationary biking once or twice, is that good, or should I really concentrate on riding outdoors? Thanks for all the help, I love this website and am looking forward to my next sprint triathlon in october. -Tim |
| 2004-08-24 3:10 PM in reply to: #52465 |
Resident Curmudgeon 25290   The Road Back Gold member | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding Is the bike part of your triathlon going to be on the road or on a stationary bike? I'm a firm believer in the concept of "specificity" of training. You can get by with a ride or two on the stationary bike, but I'd focus on the road as much as you can. On the stationary bike your missing the wind resistance, rolling resistance, handling skill, balance, ability to practice riding aerodynamically, etc. etc. |
| 2004-08-24 3:17 PM in reply to: #52465 |
Champion 4902  Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding Although it is beneficial to do stationary biking in order to improve on one's cadence and/or strength. It is, however, important to ride on the road as it quite different from riding a stationary cycle even on a race course. Enven if you only ride the road on a closed race course, you have to be constantly on the lookout hazards such as pot holes, puddles, glass, detritus, other cyclists, hills and the occasional child, little furry creature, or even brain-dead spectator who might wander onto a a race course. And yes, I have had to dodge all of the aforementioned. |
| 2004-08-24 8:51 PM in reply to: #52465 |
| 29 | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding I built up most of my mileage on a stationary bike. I started to do bike/run bricks with the stationary bike and found them very easy. I finally bought a bike and went out on the road. Wow, the bricks were very hard! Make sure you get out there on the real thing there is a very big difference! |
| 2004-08-25 6:28 AM in reply to: #52465 |
| Veteran 175 Albury, Oz | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding What they say! To stop you slacking off on your indoor sessions wear a heart rate monitor. If your roads are short because of the lights are there any hilly areas - what you lose on the high cadence stuff on the road you could make up by doing hill repeats. |
| 2004-08-25 3:13 PM in reply to: #52465 |
Champion 6786 Two seat rocket plane | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding Ride further. Seriously, there are roads beyond the stoplights. Ride to them. The stationary bike or a trainer is a good tool for when you can't get out on the bike. but it's not the same thing. Being strong on the bike is very important to triathlon success (imho). How far/long are you riding now? |
| 2004-08-25 3:26 PM in reply to: #52465 |
Member 36 Boise, ID | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding While stationary bikes can substitute every once in a great while, I have found that riding the bike on the open road is the only way I can get the kind of training I need. |
| 2004-08-25 3:35 PM in reply to: #52465 |
Pro 5153 Helena, MT | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding Before I got my bike, I had to ride on a stationary bike. Thought I was doing pretty good. Then I got my bike and I thought my first ride was going to kill me. Real bikes are way harder. Sprint from stoplight to stoplight, maybe.... |
| 2004-08-25 4:17 PM in reply to: #52465 |
| Member 10 Richmond, VA | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding Thanks for all the repsonses. Staying focused on the road is much different and that's what I thought, but I wanted to see what other people thought of the idea. Ride - I have been trying to go 15-20 miles. I just started biking this summer for the first time and am competing in a spring in october, I'm not sure if I should try to go much farther than 20 yet, or whether I should work on speed up to 20 miles, what do you think? I'm looking forward to getting on the road and really increasing my bike strength. -Tim |
| 2004-08-26 8:26 AM in reply to: #53121 |
Champion 6786 Two seat rocket plane | Subject: RE: Stationary Bike vs. Road riding "Ride lots".......Advice from the great Belgian Zen master. Eddy Merckx Advice from a lesser being (moi) At this point, miles are more important than top-end speed. You're only going to get a tiny little bit faster in a month no matter what you do. Get comfortable n the bike. Also, make sure you do bricks, running off the bike is difficult. If you can do 20 you can do 50....yes it'll hurt (at first) |
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