Riding on rollers

• Suggestions by Soren Rosenkrantz Riber:
  • Put on some heavy duty funk on your system
  • Watch (and compete) with a TV Grand Prix
  • Try to break the indoor velocity record
  • Get comfortable with beers, chips and other snacks in reach
  • Remove the rollers and ride around the house (on an mtb you can make pretty much ravage in the kitchen, I tell you).
  • Put stiff paper into the wheels and make the bike sound like a Harley.
  • Put the roller system outside and breathe some fresh air while the neighbours laugh at you.
  • Ride naked (don't sit down meanwhile!).
  • Put up an artificial solar radiation system and get a tan.
  • Install a moped instead of a bike. Remember to open the window.

• Suggestions by Stargazer James:
  • Learning Panjabi on Linguaphone tapes
  • Write e-mail PC with voice typing software
  • Install binoculars and mirrors to watch neighbours through windows
  • Install large glass tank and train underwater with aqualung
  • Phone old friends with handset clamped between chin and shoulder
  • Attach dynamo to wheel and then to Walkman(TM), more speed > more volume
  • Watch wide-screen footage of roller-coaster rides whilst training
  • Get friend to join you and then attach dynamos to wheels and then to cigarette lighters taped to your colleagues body. You can then compete to cause each other more pain. Alternatively take the windscreen washing apparatus from your car, and compete to squirt more water on compadre.
  • Take drugs and hallucinate trip through Alps on tandem with Frank Zappa in purple snow
  • Position rollers on cars then get friend to drive you for that authentic riding experience
  • 'Read' books on audio tape

• My own suggestion:
  • Attach a dynamo to the wheel and some explosive under your saddle. If the speed drops below a given level - CABOOOM!

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