TruTrainer rollers are designed and manufactured by CycleDyne LLC, located in a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. CycleDyne LLC is a partnership between Ross Belloni and Jeff Rhodes. We are cycling enthusiasts who were not satisfied with our winter training experience using conventional rollers. We have been riding together since the 1980’s; and with short daylight and harsh Indiana winters our outdoor riding would be put on hold extended periods. So, each winter we would spend many hours on rollers waiting on spring and the opportunity to outdo the other on the bike. The problem was that other than helping develop balance, rollers did little to simulate a real world training experience. Power at a speed did not match the real world; sprinting or riding out of the saddle came nowhere close to the open road feel and the cyclic force “feedback” during each pedal stroke was completely inaccurate.
As well as being friends and avid cyclists, we are aerospace engineers with over 50 years experience designing and developing jet engines. So when one phoned the other and said “Hey, I've got an idea….why don’t we design and sell a better set of rollers”, the partnership was formed. Our goal was to devise a set of rollers that would come as close as possible to duplicating a real world bike riding experience. The TruTrainer design (patent pending) is the result of 15 years of basement engineering, design, and development.
Evaluations by amateur and professional cyclist alike have confirmed that TruTrainer rollers deliver a real world training experience. We believe that our rollers will exceed your training expectations for those days when it’s too dark, dangerous, or inclement to be outside on the bike. We've been training on them for three years now and our indoor training experience has never been better. The cycling team at Marian College agrees. We give them prototypes to ride during the winter and they constantly argue over who gets to ride them. We think TruTrainer rollers have spoiled them because they can't stand to go back to their old rollers. One Marian College standout, Jake Rytlewski, rode them for six hours straight one snowy Saturday. He then rode them for another three hours on Sunday!
2005 Year In Review
This was a hectic year for us and things did not always go according to plan. We wanted to have the production line up and running by August so that we would have plenty of time to market our rollers prior to fall-winter sales season. In late July, without advanced notice, our major supplier of machined components backed out because they could not hold the aerospace tolerances that we had specified. Needless to say we burned a lot of midnight oil scrambling to establish a new supply chain. While we never want to go through that again, it was for the better. We now have an excellent supply chain, located almost entirely in the Indianapolis area, which meets or exceeds our exacting aerospace design standards.
We are very happy with how the business is going especially considering our late production line startup. We believe that TruTrainer Premium Bicycle Rollers are the highest quality, most realistic feeling bicycle rollers on the market. The response from customers and reviewers has been overwhelmingly positive. People simply love them. Many customers tell us that they can’t stand to go back to their regular trainers or rollers. In addition to the ride, customers also rave about the quality and the attention to detail especially in regard to our roller tubes. They are imported from Switzerland, honed to perfection and hard anodized. The platform has also been a big hit, allowing people to mount and dismount with ease.TruTrainer Premium Bicycle Rollers were engineered to bring the road to you anytime anywhere. We hope you experience the difference!
Jeff and Ross
