Once upon a time rollers were the only way to train indoors. Even the advent of the early turbos did little to diminish their popularity; without a fixed wheel they developed balance and handling that translated to the road, not to mention their portability and ease of set-up.
But then turbo trainers got smart and quickly rollers seemed rather quaint. Still well-suited for pre- and post-race use or for technophobes wanting to channel their inner-Merckx, they otherwise lacked the data that was now driving many people’s training experience. The birth of virtual training might have sounded the death knell for the humble rollers, were it not for a few die-hard devotees, and the somewhat unlikely interest of Wahoo.
