It looks huge.
Does it „grab“ the wheel from the top for lateral stability?
Yeah, sure seems big if “travel” is an idea behind it (well larger than the Omnium shown above).
Yeah, there appears to be a set of adjustable “jaws” at the top of the fork triangle. I am guessing you spin the gray wheel in the middle to tighten the jaws / clamps. It is probably spring loaded and locked, because I think the black side buttons are the “release” to open the clamps.
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Looks somewhat like the tire hook on my Kuat bike rack.
Really interested to see what the big deal here is. I always thought of wheel on trainers as a convenient, non permanent option. For people that will move their set ups around, mount and unmount the bike frequently or want to take the Trainer on travels.
This does look a little overbuild for that.
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The big deal seems to be:
- Wahoo
- possibility it offers more resistance than Feedback Sports Omnium Overdrive ($490)
That resistance it kind of a 2 part deal. The Omnium is used in many places with no access to external power. Considering that the pics and discussion in Ray’s article seem to point strongly to the ROLLR needing external power, I wonder how well it would do without that option?
Maybe they have that aspect covered, and they really should if they have higher resistance planned as a feature to beat the Omnium, at least in a travel situation without power?
ETA: Ray’s video (watching now) shows a pic of the ROLLR in use WITHOUT power connected apparently, so seems it might be ok to use that way too. Will be interesting to learn the potential differences between powered and not.
My only chime in here is that it looks like an Omnium but designed so you don’t have to remove your front wheel.
Love my Omnium but removing the front wheel was always a bit of a faff.
According to DC rainmaker, pros were riding it with both, plug in and unplugged, suggesting it only needs the plug for smart features.
That and the fact you can leave both wheels on might actually make this an interesting choice for warm ups in the Disc brake era.
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Here is one of their trainers in action. Kinda cool!
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A UCI World Championship rider with a 105 Crankset. This might be a sign that my “dumb” trainer is just fine and I don’t need to buy a ROLLR sigh
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It must since it offers a flywheel and offers electronically controlled resistance. The Omnium seems to not want to do much more than 350–400 W. I’ve mostly used it during bike fits, though, so I don’t think I did much more than 320 W. But it was clearly close to the top end. Plus, team mates of mine have it just for pre-race warmups.
As an engineer it seems like it will offer more resistance, but we don’t know for sure so I wrote it that way.
With my 250-280W FTP the Omnium has enough resistance for all of my race/TT warm-ups and day before openers.
Yup, the Omnium has been designed for one purpose and does its job very, very well.
I’m kinda curious what Wahoo thinks the Rollr is good for. Is it meant as a replacement for the Kickr Snap? It seems way too bulky (and needs a power supply) to be a replacement for the Omnium. At that size, I think an Elite Suito might even be more portable. If it does replace the Kickr Snap, then this would make more sense, you’d need more resistance, better road feel and perhaps the floaty backend is a selling point to some (maybe?).
Wahoo thinks the Rollr will be good for generating $$$ 
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I dunno. I think it means the only thing keeping me from Worlds is the ROLLR. I’m just sitting here with my wallet open waiting for a link!
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Feedback Omnium has same roller. Lots of track folks use them. Stays on roller unless you pedal backwards with a fixed gear or brake with road setup
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As someone who waits until the absolute last second to decide if I want to do my workout indoors or outdoors this thing actually appeals to me. Not having to faff with getting the bike on/off the kickr when I have a fickle change of mind would be one less friction point lol.
Some expanded info on the new device, and a bit on why it came to be (UCI request).