![]() The bike itself is an impressive bit of kit, with a 17.4kg flywheel providing a smooth and stable ride even as you crank up the resistance and get out of the saddle, and it has a 22in (56cm) HD touchscreen on the handlebars that opens up a world of in-ride entertainment. The Technogym Bike is the most convincing alternative to Peloton we’ve come across, and actually improves upon the Peloton experience in several ways. If you’re all about the best home spinning experience available, however, Peloton can’t be bettered. The only reason to hesitate is the price of the bike and monthly subscription, although it’s comparable to having a gym membership (at a pretty fancy gym). Motivation is never in short supply – the onscreen instructors beseech you to keep on pushing through every interval and to the end of every class, while the onscreen leaderboard shows where you rank for that class overall and against people of the same sex and age.Īnd a Peloton subscription gets you more than just spinning videos: there are classes for all kinds of things, including strength, cardio, yoga and outdoor runs. The experience is impressively immersive, especially during live classes, and there are workouts to suit all abilities and goals. Though imitators are springing up everywhere, the quality of Peloton’s set-up is unrivalled, with a quiet, smooth-riding bike that boasts a large HD screen on its handlebars showing live spin classes as well as thousands of on-demand video classes. If you’ve ever taken a spinning class in a gym or specialist studio and thought you’d love to have that experience at home, the Peloton bike is your best bet. If you enjoy the Echelon experience and do want a bike with a built-in screen, the company now has two models with a screen – the EX-5S (opens in new tab) and EX-7S (opens in new tab), which cost £1,599 and £1,999 respectively. It also includes other classes like strength and yoga sessions, and videos of scenic routes you can watch while cycling if you need a break from the motivational spiel of the spinning instructors. You will need a subscription for the app though – which, like Peloton, costs £39.99 a month. And then you have a very nice tablet as well as an exercise bike! That might sound like a bad thing, but the Echelon bike is considerably cheaper than the Peloton, so you can use the saving to buy yourself a very nice tablet to slip into its holder to follow the live and on-demand spinning in the app. Probably the simplest way to explain this bike is that it’s a bit like the archetypal spinning bike and app service Peloton (below), but without the built-in monitor, although you need a monitor to follow the companion app. ![]()
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