Some great advice from Eden above! I've ridden my trainer a lot and a couple of tips I'd give would be

  • If you just want to spend an hour or two riding, pick a movie and just keep going until it stops - be warned, though, steady state on the trainer can be a lot harder mentally than physically!
  • If you have specific aims for your winter training, invest in a good training schedule. There are lots of different programmes online for free, and a lot of reasonably priced training guides available in books.


I like the 'workouts in a binder' series, but am sure other people have different preferences. Spend some time on amazon or somewhere and see if you can find a book that you like the feel of, it'll be quite a personal thing.

For the block, you may need one that matches your trainer but I think $100 is very steep - my cyclops one cost about £12/$16. If your happy with it for now, I'd second the recommendation to stick with the phonebook...

Have fun