Yep. On the homepage, there is a button for “More.” Gives you options for just ride or scenic ride.
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I’ve been looking for a new one because my Orange Theory one doesn’t seem to work with the app. After some googling and seeing there is a $10 off coupon active on Amazon right now I just purchased this one. Good reviews and I prefer the armband over the chest strap.
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Damn. You might’ve been on the struggle bus but that’s an impressive output.
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I have no idea why I am going to do this to myself, but just in case you weren’t sure what I meant by being a huge Bowie fan, this is me at the age of …12? That’s a LONG time ago, folks.
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She’s a maniac. I have mad respect for the abs Emma has. I feel like such an idiot trying to do bicycle crunches.
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More peloton news:
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They’re now trading under a $9b market cap. Lots of big tech companies have more than that in cash sitting on their balance sheet and may be salivating over the thought of that recurring revenue. Would be surprising at all if Apple is doing some due diligence right now (note: Apple has ~$190b in cash or cash equivalents on its balance sheet as of Q3 last year)
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Yeah I got a few “hey what are you gonna do when Peloton goes bankrupt?” texts from my buddies who don’t have one. The bike and classes will survive, in some fashion. But man they do seem like a truly mismanaged organization
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Apple would be really interesting considering the tablets are Androids. I wonder how that would work…assuming maybe if it happened, the new bikes would just run off an iPad of sorts and the new and old bikes would basically just be like the same “app” on an iPad and an Android.
As long as they don’t go totally bankrupt and the bike becomes useless I’ll be fine, but christ, the people at the top of the food chain here need to go.
I will freely admit that these business announcements are really making me pump the brakes on getting a bike to let things play out and see what happens.
The reason is pretty simple. They get special song licenses for the artist series, and if they can point to people liking songs then they can point to the increased likelihood of plays on spotify for the song owner.
So Peloton says hey whoever owns Bowie’s music, let us use these songs. Owner says pay me XXX and Peloton says well look at all these people who will now listen to it on Spotify after liking it during the workout (based on other artist series), how about since you’re now going to get more plays and thus more revenue long term from spotify we only pay you XXX - some amount.
“Demand is decreasing, let’s increase prices” seems like a bad business model.
as much as there was an overreaction to the massive demand they had a couple years ago, there’s an overreaction to the first sign of trouble.
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My wife would totally get on your parents or whoever owned this kitchen about having tile counters. My wife is a very tolerant and patient woman (I mean she married me) but if there is one thing that she would protest in the streets about it’s tile counters.
me and my PTON stock 
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I see the tablets as a good reason why Apple might buy them. Apple has an insane supply chain. Imagine them producing a bike using all of the things they’ve learned from producing billions of phones/iPads/etc. over the years and slapping an iPad on instead of the PTON android tablet. I’m sure margin expansion would be well within their ability regardless of where they had to price it at.
In addition, Apple Music already has licensing agreements in place with most, if not all, record labels and leveraging those relationships/agreements for peloton classes would improve costs there. And considering you could shutter Apple Fitness or consolidate instructors across both platforms, there’s additional efficiencies to be had.
I’m not saying Apple buys them, but there are very rational cases that any armchair analyst could argue for.
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fuck…maybe I should dig into the fundamentals and buy some.
stopping production isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s not like these things have a shelf life. Demand dropped, supply chain slows deliveries, and inventory builds. They should have tracked it better, but in and of itself it’s not all that alarming to me.
it all makes sense…just as long as fucking amazon doesn’t buy them.
Yeah we have a peloton, a shitload of apple products, and live in the burbs. What’s it to you?
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If I told you this photo was probably taken before you were born, you’d get it. And my parents repeated this sin after we moved to Northern California. It took one weekend of my dad and I using a Dremel tool to remove all the grout and regrout for them to decide it was time for granite.
This isn’t even nearly the worst part of this kitchen. Had fluorescent paneled lighting, a orange/rust paint color with some stripes that evoked the Amtrak logo on it. Very 1970s vibe everywhere.
part of the problem is the bikes are made so well, no one needs to replace them!
Her parents had an early 80s on trend tile countered kitchen as well. Probably the genesis of the hate.
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