DIY InsideRide Free Motion Cycling Rollers #2

[TheBlitz1]

I dunno about you guys, but this looks like a death trap....

At least for me...

I am clumsy as crap.

[BabiiJoaa951]

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[kerunchiu]

LOL Bike Dyno !!

[fightnuttube]

And if you have an accident, there's a phone right there to call for help! LOL!

[mg10600]

Where can I find the rollers, having problems finding them.

Thanks,

Mark

[marlo916]

i see you have strategically placed the rollers conveniently near the telephone to call an ambulance in case you fall off and break your legs...

[MarkSidneyDuplessis]

this is great. i know what my weekend project is

[megamanxtc]

This is a good idea!

[megamanxtc]

You're going to be rich!

[JohnVerba]

After 20 minutes on rollers, what's sorest would be my forearms, 'cause if the front wheel turns the slightest bit it zooms across the front roller...so you learn to be a statue, a bit. But as for safety...it makes you much safer riding downtown in a big city, because if you have no problem riding right on top of, say, the white stripe on the road, you can get between buses and cars pretty well.

[JohnVerba]

Also, you learn how little of steering is steering...and how much is balance and form. Like....being able to ride a figure 8 with no hands, i think, came from the sense of balance that rollers will give you.  ; )

[sphinxrising58]

So like everyone who can ride in more than a straight line on a bik with no hands owes all that ability to devices such as this? LOL

[JohnVerba]

Nah. I'd described one route to an end, you turned it around and made it an absolute, then held me accountable for it. ; )

Very clever. It's like if I said, "The cupcakes were good because they had yellow icing," and you say, "So then, you're saying every cupcake with any other kind of icing isn't good?"

It's why the first law of logic is A = A. What I'm saying is what I'm saying. What people read into it will vary with each reader. There's no controlling that. : )

[sphinxrising58]

Well, if you could adjust the resistance of the rollers, that might make for a great exorcise kit people could make themselves, than & to add some sort of frame onto which the bike's frame could be attatched to avoid accidents from falls & such.

[JohnVerba]

We have one of those, too. Also from Specialized. That's just a regular old bike trainer. Built for endurance training, like any LifeCycle in a health club.

Rollers expose you to some danger to prepare you to have greater control when there's a lot more danger. They're not for everyone, but I never really saw them as potentially offensive before. ; )

[sphinxrising58]

Welll, here is one more idea, although I am not sure it would be technically able for cheap, add incline to the whole system, but at any rate, I think this is a great idea & I am rather shocked no one has thought of it before, including myself:).

[Bensky93]

You look very tense on the rollers. The best thing I can say is just relax and also very important dont have you elbows tense because thats what makes you go side-to-side on rollers.I just recently tried rollers about 2weeks ago and they help out your lines even when you are on regular road.

[inurface654]

FALL!!!

[cbr600rrwhat]

where did you get the rollers and metal base from? it does not say in the instructables.

[beforeourhibernation]

wouldnt that be dangerous?

[bluevidcam]

1985 called.. they want their flux capacitor and wall mounted phone back.  naw, that's pretty cool. Nice DIY

[sourdough51]

It's important to ride very straight and smoothly. Rollers will teach you how to ride properly without weaving.

[IVOIPSG]

Great video but I want to see the one where he comes off the darn thing...lol I don't mean that badly though. Just saying that if I were to do that I would bust my butt on the darn thing...LOL

[ILYutubeLAWL]

this looks pretty unsafe. it looked like the guy was gonna slip off more than once

[enyceckk1011]

@ILYutubeLAWL he wont slip off because he got bumper wheels on all sides

[radtwelve]

nice idea. for busy people its good to have one in the house or even office.

but for average working people i think it's still possible to ride around the neighborhood. unless it's a dangerous neighborhood

[CherryLid]

Looks scary to me, I wouldn't feel safe riding on those rollers.

[JohnVerba]

Hence the fun, really. : )

[lemond234]

i made one, but i fell a couple times. the people living in the apartment below me werent very happy.

[codeagent47]

wow,, it's freakin bike. Go out side and ride it.

[loseronald]

@codeagent47 sometimes it rains outside, and people cant afford the expensive biking machines.

[codeagent47]

its not like everyday is gonna be raining, plus this machine looks dangerous!!

[ArthurTyler]

sweet. you ought to store all that energy on a battery and use it for power. cool.

[happinessrunns]

you could fall off so easy

[slightlyretaded]

that looks pretty fucking sketchy.

[DznyAddict]

this looks kinda dangerous

what if ur bike went off the rollers?

[3e3op88]

His next video will feature him cleaning up chunks of his skull and brain matter off of the concrete floor.

[rollin77]

Wow! I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cardcrash2444]

looks dangerous

[prhbEasyPrey]

this is a little unsecure!

[dirx103]

is it too slidey? Or is it just like riding a bike outside?

Also how do you make your bulge look bigger in cycling shorts?

[OlympicClassDandy]

What a fantastic device! I'll have to build one for myself when I have the time.

[Rillmeddy]

You ain't black.

But that's mad ghetto.

[jaronr84]

Thank goodness for this invention. Now we can ride our bicycles without the annoying outdoors.

[Masriboy1985]

@jaronr84 bad idea

how else do you get a good quality of vitamin D

i was diagnosed with multiple scelorsis a year ago and i believe from mostly being indoors most of the time for the past 11 years

[ehcmier]

Exactly. And we all know riding our bikes outdoors is how we get vitamin D, not just exposing our skin to sunlight or some crap. And it's common knowledge that the best vitamin D comes from riding our bikes at night under a full moon. "Vitamin D-Silver" they call it. And it's the only vitamin that we can get fully clothed.

[eLLriDe420]

you guys always get in the way on the roads......stop

[ehcmier]

Yep! No more hit and run or illegal lane usage. No more snow, sleet, rain, slush, mud, traffic signals and stop signs, or having to signal, or the consequences of not signaling or having one's signals seen.

Also, jaronr84, you are decades way too late to be sarcastic about this kind of thing. No one's going to say, "You're right. What was I thinking? All those reasons I had that made this seem like a good idea are all in my head!"

[joshuacan79]

*RING RING * hello? uh he is not here... What am I doing? Riding a friggin bike.. *HANG UP* Damn it

[TheBitjunkie]

damit he didnt fal

[KazuallyKrazy]

Imagine if you were casually doing that and someone jumped at you and yelled, "Boo!"

[thouarttim]

aerobars? please.

[Denny759]

hahaha are you crazu

[mcorneah]

This looks really unstable; maybe attach something to the sides to hold the bike in place?

[RichL123]

Did you even read the title?

[Daniel569]

id be claustrophobic riding that thing so close to the damn wall

[JumpingGermans]

@evinstevev13

The front roller is connected to the back rollers, so that when the back wheel spins, it also spins the front wheel.

[hofosho40]

I think the front wheel spins because when he pedals the bike it goes side to side, the front roller spins just like the back ones so as the front tire goes side to side it causes the front roller to move, and I guess it just keeps the momentum by moving more... Its like if she change directions on a skateboard back and forth back and forth it will go forward and you dont even have to push off with your feet.

[hofosho40]

*If you change direction on a skateboard*

[msl20]

I feel like all that pressure at a single point on the front rim would maybe deform it, maybe not. Nice work nonetheless.

[HellMaster548]

God, breathing all that dry, inside air. That would be awful.

[Jthebig90]

cool but really dangerous, couldn't get me to go on that one false move and you will be riding that bike through the wall.

[evinsteven13]

how is that the front wheel is spinning? it is not connected to anything, is it?

[kreliann]

i was wondering the exact same thing

[lHeAdsWillRoLL]

Pretty neat, But riding inside wouldn't be any fun.

[sonysonix]

1:02

Somebody is playing Borderlands....

[swstiglich]

i dont understand how the front wheel is turning but cool invention

[JinxPath]

@swstiglich Dude, he didn't invent that. He learned how to do it online. Its also only a simple improvement. Allowing the rollers to go with the motion of the bike when he stands. Hints the "free motion" part of the title.

[swstiglich]

the front wheel wouldn't move though. peddles only move the back wheels on bikes

[12apennachi]

@JinxPath It's hence.

[corrosionify]

muy buenooo

[trekgeek1]

Cool concept. Though teetering on the edge of Americas funniest home videos.

[tifr87]

@trekgeek1 haha i so see something bad in the works cool idea though

[ItsTheTapeworm]

Like watching a hamster. lol

[Quadruplator]

Took you 3½ hour, will take me 28½ hours.

[mambomx]

Back in my day I could do hands free, even take off my jersey when I got too hot...but standing on the pedals, never...I'm impressed !!

[SAKUshikimori]

riding a bicyvle standing is not hard....

[nutdip]

I had one of those in 1988. I bought it at a garage sale. It didn't have the extra wheels that allowed it to go forward and back though. I wonder if that makes a big diff? Have you ever tried the standard one with three wheels?

[fistinass]

why is the front wheel is spinning?

[Lavercust1]

@fistinass the back rollers are connected to the front one, so when he peddles and the back wheel spins the two rear paddles the front one moves with the same speed,

this is why he can move around like ridding in real, else he would have to look the front part of the bike to avoid falling.

Smart idea man 5 starts

[LinuxUser4Life]

Attach that to a generator and it'll be WIN.

[alchemyx]

I would like to see how you start riding, because it seems to me impossible without faling