01 Indoor gains
● Most of us will probably admit we don’t enjoy getting wet or cold. Furthermore, if you live in a busy part of the world, training indoors can be much safer. If you’re doing hard intervals to exhaustion or training in a time-trial position on the open roads, you need to be particularly careful.
Riding indoors can save you from all of that, plus it can be extremely time-efficient if you’re following a Zwift training plan or something similar on another platform. Virtual riding is now so popular that there are organised online group rides and Zwift races, so you can indulge your competitive urges at any hour to make training more fun.
02 Weight & packability
● Trainers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and weights. Wheel-on trainers are, more often than not, the lightest and most packable kind. Direct-drive trainers tend to be much bulkier and, although their size and shape can vary wildly – with some
models folding up to a very slim form – they still tend to be pretty heavy. If you’ve got a dedicated pain cave, that’s probably fine. But if you have to set