Konsumer Korner: Excercise Bikes

Evil J Guano · Post by **Evil J Guano** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:42 am

I know I know bit of a clichéd new year type thing, but a bit of advice would be appreciated…

There seems to be a huge choice of bikes on the market, and at around £200 too much choice to be able to make any kind of valued judgement as I can't get to anywhere with a decent selection.

So, anyone got one?

Am pretty fit but need to do more Cardio regularly and hate running…

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:46 am

yes, get rollers for a good road bike. then you can train on a bike that you can actually ride on the road when you want to.

i find all excersis bikes have a really strange/odd riding position.

Evil J Guano · Post by **Evil J Guano** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:13 pm

Thanks H, already have a nice MB and go out on that whenever I can but want something to use every morning before work when I don't necessarily have time or the inclination to get out in the cold and wet.

Mrs and Ms Evil also want to use it…

haasad · Post by **haasad** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:21 pm

Totally agree with Helen, I use rollers to keep some leg speed for the velodrome and if the weather is so bad to keep me off my road bike I go "spinning" where we use Keiser M3 bikes. The set up is like a real bike and 1000kcal plus per hour makes it a proper workout. Rolles do take a certain amount of skill to get the most out of .......

There are some excelent "turbo trainers" that will fit with your standard road bike or even mountain if you change the tyres and you can download excellent traing sessions.

I think the TACX Satori is probably the best value product at present The stripes version retails at about £230 although it is a base model. You can probably do better on e bay ?

andy

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:15 pm

get a decent turbo trainer ... either fit a slick tyre to your mountain bike, of buy a road bike to use with it..... much better than an exercise bike

gridgway · Post by **gridgway** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:54 pm

I have a tacx up in the loft which is a couple of years old that has had probably less than 3 hours use! I'd need to work out a price, but it'd be a good one. I also have a spare old no-suspenstion rockhopper that I have used on it.

If you are intersested in one or both, let me know and I'll work out a price. It won't knock a big hole in your budget though

Graham

haasad · Post by **haasad** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:01 pm

I might be intersted in the rockhopper. I want to build a single speed .
What size and current spec is / was it?

Maybe the trainer too ? Let me know
andy

gridgway · Post by **gridgway** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:44 pm

I'll look both out in the morning Andy.
Graham

Evil J Guano · Post by **Evil J Guano** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:20 am

Thanks for the offer, but am used to using exercise bikes at Gym and going to get one, thanks for the help though.

theorangeperil · Post by **theorangeperil** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:02 am

I bought this one a few months ago. At the time the offer was £99 reduced from £249. I'm quite pleased with it.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... K+BIKE.htm