From CyclingNews.com
By Josh Croxton
Optimise your training with our best smart trainer guide, covering the best budget-friendly and feature-rich smart trainers available today
The best smart trainers allow you to cycle indoors, making a great alternative to riding outdoors when the weather is bad and allowing you to concentrate on improving your cycling fitness by training in a traffic-free environment.
For the uninitiated, a smart trainer mounts to your bike, links to training apps and automatically adjusts resistance to your workout. Most smart trainers are direct drive, where you remove your rear wheel and attach your frame to the trainer, but there are wheel-on trainers, where your rear tyre drives the trainer.
Smart trainers are typically used with apps like Zwift and TrainerRoad, which offer gamified experiences and structured workouts to improve your fitness gains, but you can also follow a workout routine from your cycling computer or just freeride.