ISO quiet indoor trainer

[ny biker]

The Kinetics are too expensive for me, unfortunately. I got a Cycleops Fluid 2 on Saturday -- thanks to the loyalty program at the LBS I saved 10%.

I haven't set it up yet. If it doesn't seem quiet enough, I'll get a second mat to put under it. But hopefully it will be quieter than the old one. It's the same one they use for fittings at the LBS and my recollection is that we could hold conversations with no problem while I was pedaling on it.

[Owlie]

I have a magnetic trainer--it's not particularly quiet, but I figure that if my neighbors can have loud drunken parties at 1AM on weeknights, I can use my trainer during more normal hours.

[ny biker]

Well I'm trying to work with my loud upstairs neighbor to get her to quiet down, and in that spirit I don't want to be making noise with the trainer and cranking the volume on Coach Troy. Also I actually like my downstairs neighbors, who would hear the trainer noise more than the upstairs chick, so I don't want to bother them.