Slick sounds like icy roads. But ice isn\’t the only thing that\’s slick.

I once had a set of bicycle rollers; \”a treadmill for a bike\”, as some say.

Although it took some time, I actually became fairly adept at riding on them with the hybrid. When I tried using the road bike on rollers, it was a different story.

Maybe it was because of the road bike\’s narrower, slicker tires, but the rollers seemed impossibly slippery. The bike was very difficult to control. Maybe I was too tentative? Maybe, at the time, I didn\’t have sufficient core strength? Whatever the explanation, trying to ride a road bike on rollers is, for me, analogous to trying to walk across a smooth, slippery floor in roadie shoes.

I ended up selling the rollers. Good move? Bad? I don\’t know. I still have the trainer, but riding the rollers is supposed to be much better for developing a smooth, even pedal stroke; and for learning to hold a straight, narrow line.

Maybe some day I\’ll have a set of rollers again, but I think I\’ll skip the  Silly Skills in that video. I can\’t ride no-handed on flat ground!