Review of Inside Ride e-Motion Bicycle Bike Rollers
This is a review of the Inside Ride e-Motion bicycle rollers. I bought them from www.1upusa.com because I couldn’t find a better price and they had free shipping. They took 4 weeks to arrive (back in November of 2007). The good is: 1. I love riding on them. 2. I can alternate standing and sitting to alleviate butt pain. 3. They feel very much like real riding even while standing. 4. Time goes by much faster than on other exercise equipment. 5. They come fully assembled, which is terrific. 6. They are very easy to adjust. The bad is: 1. My mountain bike wheelbase was slightly too long to use on these. When standing, the bike tended to lurch forward slightly. 2. Slightly disappointed in how loud they are but different tires might help that. Some things I don’t mention in the video: 1. The bumpers are nice for helping prevent riding off the sides. 2. Watching hockey can be deadly if you tend to go back and forth with the action! 
Here are some other videos on rollers you might want to check out! This guy is incredible on rollers: www.youtube.com These rollers look awesome for Mountain Bikers: www.youtube.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Wow I can’t believe I watched that whole video thinking he was gana fall and he never did Wtf? How boring that’s time of my life ill never get back
@rikoshea5234 I don’t think you’ll fall off, but your back tire will probably slip/lose traction and be really annoying. Also, if you have your front wheel positioned slightly behind (like fractions of an inch) behind the front roller and if you put a ton of weight on your front bars, your wheel could slide off the back off the front roller, maybe not all the way off the back because of the safety bar, but … the big problem is loosing traction on the rear wheel.
Is it possible to sprint really hard on these roller? Elite also produce a set of e-motion rollers (without the rear wheel bumpers). The video for them demonstrates a very weak/wimpy looking sprint.
how much equipment do you have in that house…
Hey, r.e tyres and noise, you know you’re supposed to use special roller tyres, right?
Thanks for the video. I used to own a Kurt Kinetc trainer which I used 3 or 4 times… and sold. You saved me from buying another piece of overpriced junk.
Great video infotainment! I got rollers to train for an upcoming ride and had to curb a shopaholic urge to get e-motion rollers after watching your video! Luckily a financial reality check helped dampen my enthusiasm, plus some further research. But I mention your video in my cycling club’s blog so I thought I’d write to say hi and tell you to check out the Beach Cities Cycling Club blog if you’d like to see the link to your video. Happy riding!
man you do like to excorsise dont you…very good my man..very good indeed
that looks awesome, thanks for uploading, very informative
@bradtube1 „… they are every bit as boring as any other trainer.“
This is my other thought….no matter how hot these are as a trainer, they are still a trainer. For $850 I could but alot more winter clothes & fenders and ride outside more this coming winter and just use my existing rollers when conditions absolutely make cycling impossible.
@JoeOxfordCT Lemond has a pretty cool new trainer out – you remove your rear wheel and put the bike on a simulated rear wheel, supposed to feel just like road biking. maybe not the challenge of rollers, but … interesting little machine.
@JoeOxfordCT well… not even a lot of resistance makes them slip. yes, you can stand with your weight less forward, but it doesn’t feel natural. Maybe you could elevate the front wheel slightly and stand and not slip. my thoughts? well, I wish I could use my mountain bike on them but the wheelbase is too long. i really had fun on them initially, just trying to balance and stuff, but once you get comfortable on them, they are every bit as boring as any other trainer.
@bradtube1 – Well that sounds to me like a lot of resistance combined with maybe having your center of gravity too far forward which is causing the rear wheel to slip…. yes, no ?
Also, it’s now been a year since you posted up this video. What are your feelings now about the E-Motions ? Pros, Cons, what you would change if you could, etc.
Thanks by the way, great video !
@JoeOxfordCT If I put the resistance up high and stand, the rear wheel slips so when I stand, I need to have the resistance fairly low. I don’t know if newer or stickier tires would help this or not.
Hi Brad,
I am considering laying out for these but they’re alot of money. I currently have a set of roller with a mag resistance unit that I’m very comforable with but I can’t really realistically mimic the standing climbing position. Is there enough resistance with the E-Motion rollers to get a good standing climbing workout ? I saw the one clip of you standing at max resistance. Boy did your bike look like it was flexing alot….
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Ride/run outside? I guess its good for training.
Ride/run outside?
good honest unbiased review. thanks
I’m pretty sure the issue with this roller set picking up tire rubber has to do with the small diameter drum they used for the front tire. This causes a high-flex area in the contact patch. Many other rollers will use larger-diam drums up front to improve this, or get a really slick tire that you can get to a higher pressure. After you’ve plunked down $800 for this rig, you can afford a spare front wheelset eh?
Nice, but how much did replacing that window you flew through cost?
My alternative was to simply move my speedometer sensor to the rear wheel, and use a $180 (US) trainer. Keeps me going.
Yes you can, I do it, but you need change your wheels or it will eat them as well in few time, just put ones for road
i like the TACX better en he is much cheeper
@gravitygrabber change your tires to smooth rolling ones.
yes but it will make alot of noise