| Re: spin bikes (aka spinning cycle or group cycle)
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>>5. These bikes have a dial that adjusts the resistance on the flywheel.
>> It works fine but there's no indicator to show what resistance you're
>>using - there should be.
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> Hard if not impossible to make; a bike with a PowerTap
> on the crank would probably be the only way to gauge
> resistance consistently.
The indicator doesn't need to actually measure anything, just have a
reference number - say 0 to 10 in half unit increments for
repeatability. Or 0 to 11 for the really good ones!
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>>7. No place to put your walkman if you're riding outside of class.
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> What? You don't wear a three-pocket jersey in the gym?
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Lots of jerseys in my classes too - not so many outside of the spin
studio though. I prefer a T-shirt.
> The machine you ride at the gym probably costs about $2-3,000.
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> And it still breaks more often than a real bike would.
The StarTrac V-Bikes at my gym retail for $850.
http://homegymcentral.com/star_trac_v_bike.html
The little adjustment levers break when people use the pipe as an
extension lever, the bottle cages break sometimes, but mostly the crank
bearings seem to go bad.
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