Is it okay to use your bike on a turbo trainer?

The article doesn't mention destroying your headset through sweat - stick a towel over your handlebars otherwise you will rust your bearings - not a problem out on the road - forward movement even on a hot day.

I have also seen cooked rear bearings - a worn bearing will overheat and destroy your rear wheel, I have seen a freehub beautifully heat treated by a bearing failure.

Finally, remember that chain and cassette are still doing mileage, so they need to be maintained as if out on the road.

I spoke to Rose before ordering mine and was told;

"no problem. You can use all of our carbon frames with an direct trainer like WAHOO Kickr or TACX NEO.

Sportliche Grüße aus Bocholt/Best regards"

https://www.biketrainerworld.com/bike-trainer-vs-rollers/

Found this. Still don't agree.
Trainers from my point of view cost more, whereas rollers I see near $200Aus but keep saving towards variables nearer $400Aus yet trainers seem to start around that (or maybe I don't look properly).
Article reads trainers more suited to public whereas rollers purr pros and I disagree again. Balance will become and both require balance yet holding a hand rail/wall or having a mate as a guide would quickly learn stability of form whereas trainers lock a bicycles vital fulcrum (axle) and could easily be used to target direct torque with or without later preferred habits. Most sail boats have stays to stabilize torque and human legs have similar spiraling muscles to make use of exerted force.
I know I get wobbles and especially if riding you beaut super stiff materials I'd rather enjoy a sway than stress a machine stay and reduce life of vehicle (assuming I don't crash on rollers )
Plus they're small enough to store easy and quick to start using without any assembly /reassembly requirements.

Or like you Rick_Rude, use a cheap frame (steel has give that protects integrity) and turn it up.
I don't know neither, just sharing my opinion. Rollers next year probable here because house is warmer than winter nights and I haven't much to do but want to climb so that I can descend.

I get out of the saddle on my Direto and it's been ok with a cheap chinese frame. I'm sure the much more illustrious brand names will be fine.

I don't get it.
I'm thinking a set of rollers with a fixie would be enjoyable as sway could be balanced and a work out could become. Even if not fixie, light weight, portable, folding storage, easily set up on race day while bike remains in a ready to go serviced mode.
Whereas turbo trainers look like a part bit of an exercise machine which could stand alone instead.
No point having more power than ability to apply such which is why rollers look fantastic. (Too me anyway, I haven't used neither).
Hamster wheels of rollers is appealing to me.
Any suggestions?
Don't mind either old school without collection of energy supplied via a torqued bicycle or if they are made, rollers with catchment to route into data or battery charger or Watt other uses.
They look like fun though, even a front wheel speedometer computer to stabilize cadence would do me on a set of rollers in front of an idiot box.
Maybe I'm lazy but I'd rather a pedaling machine or rollers than a turbo trainer that requires a wheel decision every time I use it.

Any rollers that perform well compared to others? I like thinking that that'd be fun.

Specialized answer is weird, considering they're something like 49% owned by Merida or were and their frames are manufactured by Merida. Merida being the 2nd largest frame manufacturer after Giant.
Sounds a bit hypocritical when Merida says yes, but Specialized says no?

There's so much urban myth and cr@p going around about this subject! 

I think we all know that some manufacturers will do anything to get out of honouring warranties even though they won't admit it! However, what concerns us is the health of our trusted steeds so bear this in mind:

Look at the GCN's video comparing Alu and Carbon handlebars. Now I know the layup of the carbon is different in different places on a bike but look at how much carbon can flex without failing. It's brittle on impact but flexes perfectly with non-impact forces ( https://youtu.be/0stL5Q9b_oo?t=36s ) Riding a trainer doesn't exert anywhere near as much force in these tests.

Secondly, listen to a guy who repairs carbon bikes for a living. He's had NONE as a result of trainer use! https://youtu.be/-qsLYlVWkbQ?t=3m24s

If you are still worried or in fact want a less fatiguing long ride on your trainer think about making a rocker plate for it. One version is here. https://youtu.be/JYzKcz46oOw?t=26s

Recently there has been simpler versions using the natural bounce/spring in tennis balls.

Ride On!

I emailed Jamis and they said it was OK to use mine on a trainer. So I do.
Carbon Renegade.

I am an owner of a Orbea Orca Silver 2012, accoridng to Orbea I have a for life warranty, but It doesn't say anything about turbo trainers so I send them an email asking if by using a turbo trainer I will lose my warranty and they answer me that I can use without problem a turbo trainer my warranty will apply without problem on my frame and I'm happy about that.

Extra points for Cannondale, refreshing to see real world advice not wrapped up in legalese

The response from Canyon and Specialized is so lame. All their pro teams use trainers and in the case of Canyon they sell them. How hypocritical of them!

Canyon selling turbo trainers on their website, but not for their bicycles.  

Well this highlights which manufacturers trust in their products.

Turbos are much better than the road for structured training during the winter. Riding on ice doesn't make you "hard", so many people feel the need to brag about riding in bad weather....yeah, you probably could've got a better workout indoors.

whilst I get not everyone can afford N+1 bikes I went out and got a very cheap steel bike for my trainer, no way was I going to use my carbon bike on it.

Thats just my personal preference and I only use my trainer regardless of weather for short intervals and sessions under an hour.

Other than that as Judge Dreadful says, gget out there, I was yesterday morning at half 6 in the ice and snow. Once you warm up no real issues ! 

  BMC?

#5 #9. Stop being lightweight and ride your bike on an actual road. There's no issue then.

I've just relegated my 10 year old carbon frame to Turbo duties, be permanently attached to the Kickr now \o/  mind you, the rear dropouts had started to go anyway, fraying carbon is never a good sign...there's no way I'd take it out on the road

Rule #9 was invented for this  LOL

Kurt Kinetic Rock'n'Roll is probably the 'rocking' one you're thinking of.

I'm torn on this.  On the one hand there are clearly very different forces going through a bike frame that's clamped into a trainer (either direct drive or wheel on).  This will be especially clear when out of the saddle, sprinting or "climbing" - anything that in normal riding would cause the bike to rock one way and the other.  If the bike can't move then you're putting those forces mostly through the chain stays and seat stays, and the latter especially are only designed to deal with compression forces along their length.  

Think of a cheese straw or breadstick.  They're relatively strong in tension and compression along their length - you could pull either end of a breadstick and it would probably hold (unless cracked already).  But not strong at all in torsion (twisting) or sideways compression.  The more expensive the bike, the more 'vertical compliance' it has been designed for, the more material will be trimmed from the frame and the less resistance to 'unplanned' forces.

Now, if you argue that bike makers should design their frames for all uses including trainers - that's fine, but it means more material (for a given level of technology) and thus more weight.

On the flip side, there are thousands of people using trainers now.  The last few times I've been on Zwift it's been around 3000, there are thriving communities using TR, Sufferfest, BKool etc.  If it was really a problem the Internet would be littered with photos of broken bike frames somewhere around the lower seat stay.  But it isn't.  So we must conclude that it's just not a problem for the great majority of users.

Ride on

Riding a turbo is predominantly a sit down routine.  Riding out of the saddle is a little limited to keeping the upper body rigid and not swaying too much.  So forget about out of the saddle sprints for the line routines, save that for the road.  Turbos are for building aerobic and endurance capabilities, pedal technique.

The Bkool trainer is very difficult to apply much power whilst standing unless you keep weight back and have sticky new tyre.  

Guess it also depends on the trainer. My Bkool is a weight down to contact trainer so getting out of the saddle is pointless, whereas my Tacx clamped up onto tyre and you could get out of the saddle and get a bit waggly.

Hasn't one of the trainers got an element of rock built into it? Probably a good compromise.

seeing as how trainers are regularly recomended for training, warm ups or winter riding, it's about time bike manufacurers started to test bikes on trainers, and not just road bikes, mountain bikes too, as you always see riders warming up in the pits or at the start gate spinning away.

Interesting also to look at advice about carriers-  Cannondale's advice is ultra-cautious and rules out virtually carriers, including those that lock the fork, or in any way clamp onto the  frame.  Not very "real world".

"no mechanical contact between the frame (chainstays, seatstays, dropouts) and the turbo trainer"...

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wheel-on trainers only?