It’s that time of year again. Dark and early nights combined with increasingly miserable weather makes riding outdoors much less enticing, while the boom in indoor training platforms – and ever-improving turbo trainers – conversely has made riding indoors far more inviting than ever before.
We’ve put four top-of-the-range direct-drive turbo trainers to the test for a definitive verdict on what’s the best trainer money can buy and where you’re best putting your money – the two don’t always go hand-in-hand.
This story is from the November 18, 2021 edition of CYCLING WEEKLY.
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