MINOURA MoZ-Roller - Manual (Page 6)

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How To Ride Rollers for Beginners
You won't be supported by anything on rollers. You must maintain the balance by yourself.
We strongly suggest to have a well-skilled helper for every beginner. Remember riding alone always has the risk of falling down.
● Set the gear to middle
Prior to getting on bike, shift the transmission gear to the mid point; not too light and not too heavy.
Too light gear cannot gain enough speed, and too heavy gear will loose balance by the force of pushing down the pedal.
On rollers, be sure you "smoothly spin" the pedal by both pushing and pulling actions.
● Set next to the wall
Set rollers to the location where you can easily reach the wall or handrail when you sit on the saddle. In case of handrail, too
low position is not good because your upper body will have to be leaned. Your shoulder level or higher is fine.
Too far away from the wall is also not good, because your upper body will be leaned and the gravity point will have to be shifted
off. You may loose your balance when release your hand. Just next to the wall is fine.
● Properly sit on the saddle center
Sit on the saddle and put both foot on the pedal while holding the wall. Adjust hip position to the exact center of the saddle.
If your body is not aligned to the bike properly, it will become very difficult to keep balance on rollers. As our own investigation
result, most people who cannot ride rollers don't sit on the saddle correctly. Keep in your mind that this is the biggest hardle.
● Do not look down, see ahead
If you drop down your head to look downward like you see the front roller, your semicircular canal won't work and you will
have to loose balance. Raise up your chin to see 2 - 3 meters ahead at all times on the rollers.
● Do not grab the handlebar hard
Grabbing handlebar so much will loose the flexibility of your body, then you won't be able to chase to the bike action. Remind
that you softly grab the handlebar like "just touching".
● Grab just next to the stem
While you don't get skilled with rollers, we recommend you to hold the center part of the handlebar like just next to the stem.
It will become harder to keep balance if you hold further end position of the handlebar, then you may fall down at the moment
you release your hand from the wall due to too much travel of gravity shifting.
Anyway you don't use brake on rollers at all, you don't need to think about the position of the brake lever or grip.
TIPs for Safe Ride
10 - 15mm (minimum 0mm. No minus)
About Front Roller Position
The front roller positions is adjustable in 5 positions in order to fit your bike's
wheelbase size.
For your safety, set Front Roller at 10 – 15mm forward to the front wheel axle.
(see Fig. F)
! If the front wheel axle has been positioned further than
Front Roller, the bike will fall off forward very easily.
If it's too behind, the handling character will become too
heavy but suddenly turn quickly after certain angle.
!
Do NOT apply brake at all while on rollers.
The spinning roller's moment will brow you backward.
(Fig. F)