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Review on 🚴 Smooth and Space-Saving: Tacx Antares Indoor Retractable Bicycle Rollers by Wanick Palermo

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Not an easy task, but worth it

As many reviews say, it's difficult to say the least. I can only do about 10 minutes at a time, but it's a useful 10 minutes. I've had them for a few days now and ride them every day and still have a 10 minute ride ahead of me without holding on to anything. Luckily I have a squat rack that fits perfectly in between. I've found that taking the bar and lining it up with an imaginary path on the ground and then focusing on the opposite end helps a lot. I can go on like this for about a minute, but I'm sure it will get better. If you have even the slightest bad riding style (choppy pedal travel, leaning on the handlebars, etc.) they are magnified 10x on the rollers, which is why I chose them to fix everything in the first place. Mine already has these black spots from my new sport tires so hopefully they will wear off. The bike originally had my gravel tires and my wife on the next floor said it sounded like a chopper in the basement lol so you need a slicker tire. A regular street tire would probably do the trick, but those 700x37 gravel tires were noisy. Don't forget to keep your kernel enabled!

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