Peloton ending software updates for bikes with the first generation of monitor
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> Alternatively you could spend these THOUSANDS of dollars on a REAL BIKE. A real bike even allows you to get to places too!
> As a cycling fan, I cannot personally understand why ANYBODY would buy this product. You could buy a very decent road bike PLUS a basic turbo trainer (for indoor training if you’re really so bothered about that) for less than the cost of this dumb exercise bike. Or you could buy a very decent road bike plus a basic exercise bike, if you’d rather do that. Either of those two combinations is less than the cost of this dumb overpriced live-streaming exercise bike.
> You could even get a gym membership and take spin classes if you really want an instructor. My gym membership costs $27 a month and spin classes are free. So that means I could pay for the gym for SEVEN YEARS for the cost of this bike. Oh wait, and you’ve got to pay the subscription for this exercise bike too, at $39 a month. The bike plus two years of the subscription costs the same amount as nearly TEN YEARS of my gym membership. And the gym has weights too. And all the free spin classes I could want.
> Why do people spend money on overpriced gimmicks? I guess I’ll never know. Personally I would recommend getting a real bike. Cycling is great, you get to see the outdoors, you can ride with your buddies which is sociable (rather than being cooped up in your home, staring at some stranger who is paid to fake happiness), you get to visit new places, etc. And you cannot recreate proper cycling on any form of exercise bike. Bike handling, moving the bike side to side when you’re climbing up a hill, etc. If you really want to take part in classes though, get a gym membership and go do spin classes there. You’ll meet real life people! Yes, real people! And for significantly less money!