Riding a bike outdoors on a sunny day with the wind caressing your hairs or having an adrenaline rush while cruising on a treacherous mountainous path is an experience you must have had sometime in your life. However, if it’s unbearably hot, freezing cold or raining heavily, you’ll not feel like venturing outside even if you happen to be a passionate biker. It is during such eventualities that a stationary cycle trainer comes to your rescue.

Indoor bike trainers let you simulate actual riding in the comfort of your home and are far more suitable or convenient than exercise bikes that not only happen to be heavier but more expensive as well. Bicycle trainers also known as turbo trainers or stationary bike trainers are ideal for keeping in shape when a hectic schedule, traffic bottleneck or inclement weather keeps you from venturing outside. Indoor bicycle trainers have come a long way since the days of bike rollers-the earliest predecessor of a bike trainer.

The stationary bike trainer that started out as a roller unit gradually evolved into a wind bicycle trainer while future upgrades incorporated fluid-dynamics and magnetic-resistance mechanisms. The state-of-the-art bicycle stands for indoor riding enable you to monitor your training pace in a much better manner by letting you compete with other cyclists in an online environment via web-based apps.
<h2>Value Section</h2>
The best stationary training bikes come in perfectly handy not only for riding indoors on days when the weather is unpleasant or unsuitable but also for limbering up prior to a cycling competition. If you’re someone who keeps self fit and trim by biking routinely, then the stationary trainer for bicycle would prove to be immensely versatile for achieving targeted workout sessions. The advanced indoor bicycle trainers are reinforced with extraordinary features and are compatible with the latest apps, adding variety to your training.

Nowadays, different brands of smart bicycle trainers on sale let you keep track of heart-rate as you pedal away on virtual landscapes or mountain tracks and rate or compare your performance with other competing bikers.
<h2>The broad categories of indoor bike trainers</h2>
All stationary bike stands starting from the most basic to the most upgraded exploit the ‘1st law of motion’ where a resistance unit built into a roller creates an opposing force to your pedaling motion. So, when you buy an indoor bicycle trainer stand, you’re basically investing your money on the resistance-generating component or unit. The pricier the bicycle trainer, the better the quality of the unit that offers friction and the more options you’ll have for adjusting or controlling resistance.

Cycle trainers are usually categorised into three broad categories based on the mechanism of friction offered by the resistance-unit. So, you’ve got wind-resistance, fluid-resistance, and magnetic-resistance cycle trainers. There’s also a fourth category-a bike roller trainer (variously called cycling roller)-of turbo trainer that have rolling bars set on a horizontal frame or stand for turning both the front and rear wheels. In order to use a roller bike training stand effectively one should be experienced in exercising on a bicycle trainer as a greater degree of balance is required to keep pedaling on the former.
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 	<li><strong>Wind-resistance trainer:</strong> This type of bike training stand where resistance is provided by a wind-generating fan can get very noisy and also doesn’t have any option for resistance adjustment. Nevertheless, they’re the cheapest type available and suitable for the uninitiated, looking for their first bicycle exercise stand rear wheel.</li>
 	<li><strong>Fluid-resistance trainer:</strong> A fluid-resistance trainer allows to you increase or decrease the resistance level (according to your convenience) through a handlebar-mount control. An impeller shaft rotating in an oil or fluid bath furnishes the necessary resistance almost silently. A cycle trainer operating on fluid mechanism is more expensive than magnetic or wind trainers.</li>
 	<li><strong>Magnetic-resistance trainer:</strong> A revolving magnetic flywheel creates a magnetic resistance field giving you a fair degree of liberty for monitoring resistance; bike trainers with electromagnetic flywheels are quieter as well as provide you more control options.</li>
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