Back in the day, the prospect of an indoor turbo trainer session (that's what we called them before they got smart, kids) would generally unite cyclists, who pretty much unanimously agreed that they were a great way of getting a quality session in, but they were hard and generally a means to an end, that being improved fitness and form.

With the rise of smart trainers and everything that comes with them, from virtual mountain climbing to intense virtual e-racing, opinions on the latter seem to be a bit more skewed.

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