Indoor exercise bike

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I have a feeling lockdown will be way longer than 3 weeks.

Indoor bikes as well as other home gym equipemtn is getting sparce as left it a little too late, just check here - https://www.johnlewis.com/search?search-term=Exercise Bike

Looking at upright exercise bikes for use indoor / on my balcony. At the gym I use a Wattbike Trainer, great bike but unfortunately do not have £2500 to spend on one. Same goes for anthing like Peleton.
At the same time I want something of reasonable quality that will be good for maybe 6 months use before I sell it on.

Budget around £200-£500

What can people find that is in stock for ASAP delivery?
 
Problem is stuff that is decent starts at around 500-600 quid for a turbo trainer that is direct drive. you don't want a wheel on one as you will chew through tyres over time.

They go up to around £1500 so £600 isn't a lot of money in that regard.

Again your budget will just get you cheap crap for indoors. It should get you a half decent outdoor bike. But not enough to then use it inside unless you go for cheap crap.
 
You are still allowed outside to ride you know? :confused:

As stated, decent direct drive turbos would be the way to go but they aren't that cheap, plus you obviously need a bike as well.

I guess even second hand wattbikes would be megabucks too
 
Depends where you live, but around me, the roads are much quieter than they were... Even around rush hours.

Buy some slick tyres for your mountain bike and ride outside? If the internal rim width of the wheels is ~19mm (+/-1mm), look at 700x28mm as very safe minimums. Just be aware that some manufacturers and even specific models "lie" about their width, for example 700x25 Continental GP4000S IIs measure ~27mm (as do Grand Sport Race) and IMO would be fine on 20mm internal rim width wheels. I've used the latter on my 20mm road rims for my fatbike.
 
Have you considered a rowing machine instead ? better all round body work out, probably with the caveat not if you have a questionable back
 
@Guest2 Did you ever get anything? My one outdoor session tends to be taken up by either walking my elderly dog, or herding my errant six year old - so not ideal cardio.

I had thought about a rower/air assault bike prior to the lockdown, but delayed too long and now their seems to be very little stock of anything - even the Wattbikes are subject to a long delay!
 
jpaul said:
Have you considered a rowing machine instead ? better all round body work out, probably with the caveat not if you have a questionable back
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I did indeed, even before lockdown. A concept 2 pm4 / pm5. My back is good but rowing seems to hammer my knees more than anything

Bloodrayne said:
@Guest2 Did you ever get anything? My one outdoor session tends to be taken up by either walking my elderly dog, or herding my errant six year old - so not ideal cardio.

I had thought about a rower/air assault bike prior to the lockdown, but delayed too long and now their seems to be very little stock of anything - even the Wattbikes are subject to a long delay!
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Nope, anything good for the price was out of stock or not available for some time (as in May/June)
I have just been using my kettle bell, pullup bar and ab roller indoors and have been on a few runs of around 5 or 6km.
A bike is still tempting even though I have an old mountain bike. Everyone seems to be out on bikes now! A balcony static bike appeals much more plus I like 15-30 second sprints to ~600 watts which are not ideal for towpaths full of walkers, runners and people who have not been on their bike in 30 years
 
I can only imagine that once this comes to an end there's going to be an amazing array of 2nd hand stuff available online ("only used twice!") but not ideal for now.

I have very limited opportunity to get out for runs, and what was once a quiet route has now become much busier with people I have never seen before... hence wondering (as you did) about having an alternative cardio option to keep me ticking over, I am alternating between getting something cheap to tide me over, or something more pricey to keep on afterwards... but imagine I will struggle until lockdown comes to an end and by that time I will have given up on fitness for competitive jaffa cake eating.
 
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