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 six years now and our indoor training experience has never been better. The cycling team at Marian College agrees. We think our rollers have spoiled them because they can't stand to go back to their old ones. 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 CycleDyne LLC formed

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 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 recover for our first sales season. We were very happy with our first year, because the response from customers and reviewers has been overwhelmingly positive.  Many customers tell us that they can’t stand to go back to their regular trainers or rollers.  

2006 First European sale

The challenge of our second year was keeping up with sales. Word of our rollers was getting out thanks to some great reviews from Fixed Gear Fever, Pez Cycling News and NYVeloCity.  Even people as far away as the UK were buying them and the compliments from the customers kept rolling in.

2007 Travelers introduced Q3

Now that our supply chain was set we decided to release the traveler version of our rollers. these are a light weight version of the TruTrainer without the rear flywheel and are trageted at the fixed gear guys who carry alot of gear to and from the velodrome.  We also began marketing an upgarde kit to add the flywhell option for those who purchased travelers.

2008 Auxilliary load planned for release Q4

The midnight oil is burning again. We are currently into the final R&D work on a wireless auxillary load device that will allow hill climb load simulation. The auxillary load device will provide up to 500 watts at 50 RPM in a 53x12 gear. Some of the pros using our rollers requested this capability so they can throw away their stationary trainers. Our plan is to begin marketing the auxillary load device in the fall of this year.  

TruTrainer Premium Bicycle Rollers are engineered to bring the road to you anytime anywhere. We hope you experience the difference!

Jeff and Ross