Would anyone care to discuss the drop-outs on the carbon cervelos? They are not adjustable (in other words you aren’t able to bend the derailleur hanger back to shape if it is ever bent) and they seem to be made of carbon.
My concern is that it seems like putting my carbon cervelo on the computrainer is going to do damage because the trainer pushes in on the outside of the dropout. If this ever was damaged then it would be a ruined frame.
Thoughts?
Should I get another bike? Should I stop training on the indoor trainer? Why would cervelo make dropouts like this? Seems like a design flaw.
I have my P2C on my Tacx flow trainer. I just make sure that the clamping pressure is just enough to hold the bike in place but not enough to put a lot of stress on the dropouts. It does make me a little nervous that the bike doesn’t have a replacable derailler hanger but that’s more of a concern from a crash or fall than from it being attached to my trainer.
the “pressure” that you are putting on the bike is on the skewer not the frame of the bike - at least on the computrainer, I guess I don’t have another trainer to say for sure that others work the same way, but I’d be really surprised if any placed the stress upon the frame, just the skewer
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I seem to remember a thread recently that talked about using bikes in trainers. Although my memory is fuzzy, I recall someone from Cervelo saying it’s fine to use your bike in a trainer as long as you don’t fall off
If you do a search & I’m sure you’ll find the thread
Now it may be different with your fancy computrainer, but my cycleops trainer never comes into contact with my frame when I clamp it in. they gave me that big clunky skewer with the trainer to protect my fancy skewers and presmably the frame. Go to the store and buy a $5 steel skewer to preserve your $5000 bike.
