My favorite part is that the stuff on the shelves is changed slightly for their rides, like that’s supposed to make people not notice it’s the same room.
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I 100% believe that the two of them (ben and leanne) had to come clean on insta and everywhere about their relationship because of these live from home rides going to start…stay ahead of the rumors lol.
but yah, totally hilarious how they keep changing the knick-knaks.
walked my first round of golf today in 7 weeks - all the peloton def helped - my legs are usually beat by hole 16 but today allllll good all the way through!
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Really enjoying the “at home” rides, the instructors seem much more human as they try to figure this out. Realized about 5 minutes in that I was on my PR pace - settled in for 25 minutes and beat it by 2kJ.
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Minga that’s impressive
I am here with the fear that the last couple of months of progress / PRs have been fake news.
I finally got fed up with the clicking / rattling my flywheel was making and decided to reinstall it. Instructions said to tighten the bolts holding the flywheel to 11 ft/lb or something. Not having a torque wrench handy, I did my best to match whatever it was before by feel. Flywheel no longer wobbling and making noises. I then took a ride, felt like I was matching ~97% of my PR effort, and went from 511 kj to 450 kj.
I have a torque wrench on the way, but unless those bolts are way to tight / creating a lot of friction with the flywheel, it looks like I have many months of chasing down fake PRs ahead of me. Pretty discouraging TBH.
Whenever you work on the bike (tightening belt, flywheel adjustment, whatever) it’s worth recalibrating the sensor. Do you have one of their little calibration kits?
Thanks! I’ve been settling into a maintenance ride mindset… then a buddy I used to row with got a bike and his second FTP test passed me last week.
In my feelings here over the removal of Oliver Lee and all his strength workouts from the platform. I was so confused one morning last week when I couldn’t find any of his workouts.
Reddit seems to suggest he violated some ToS as an employee.
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Just caught back up on this thread. Been getting a good 3-4 rides a week the past month or so but I’m getting frustrated with my knock off bike. It’s a chain drive, so it’s noisy, not super smooth, and shakes the whole house ever since we moved it out of the basement. Not ready to drop the money on the real bike but it’s getting hard to stay motivated when it feels like I’m going to start riding pieces off if I push the pace.
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Ooo yah apparently he sent some insta DMs that were, um, very revealing/explicit to some followers last week…
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Update on the Bowflex? The wife and I were thinking of going the same route.
you. are. a. monster
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Enjoyed this Emma rock ride today. I was still feeling a bit sore from golf this weekend so took it easy on the climb portion. Still worked up quite a sweat. And crossed the 3k minute mark for 2020!
Also I wish there was a whole ride of Arcade Fire songs.
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Oh, but there is!
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Got my bike on Saturday and it’s been awesome…just curious is there a special FTP class? or do I just take any 20 minute class to get that number and put it into my Power Zone setting
It’s good, but not great. Quality: almost everything seems to be almost on par with the Peloton hardware. It feels strong, sturdy, and quality. Coming from a road bike on a trainer, this is a lightyears better experience with the Peloton app.
Some major downsides that are making me really think about selling this and getting the actual Peloton bike:
- No power meter - we’ve known you can’t get live power stats in the app when using a non-Peloton bike, but with the Bowflex, it’s not available anywhere. With my old Wahoo trainer, I could get power stats out of the app after the ride, so I had a general idea where I stand against friends. It’s impossible to get now without some fancy expensive aftermarket pedals.
- No competing w/ friends/live classes. We knew this before, but it still sucks not to have.
- You have to manually pair the bike and HRM for every ride, and you can’t do this until after you start the class. Not huge, but annoying.
- The resistance settings are off, and are nowhere close to the number the Peloton instructor shouts out. The bike still has a 0-100 resistance setting, but it’s not inline with the Peloton resistance. There’s an approx mapping somewhere that some people did, and it’s frickin weird.
- The placement of the water bottle holders is terrible. I use the bigger (32oz i think) Camelback insulated bottles, and they stick so far out the top, my knees hit them whenever I come out of the saddle.
It’s a good solution if you really don’t want to spend the Peloton money, but it’s far from perfect. Whether or not these items I listed above are enough to justify the $1,500 price difference with the Peloton, that’s up to you. They annoy me, but I’m also still really enjoying the cycling experience.
Edit: found the resistance conversion chart. There’s a micro-economy on Etsy made just from these silly little conversions. I just printed these numbers out in Excel and taped to my bike…
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Not sure if others have noticed they work the same way but thought this was interesting. Had been plateauing for a bit in terms of PR’s, was always right in the neighborhood but wasnt making any progress for a couple weeks. Still felt like i was getting good workouts, just wasnt translating to the metrics. So i decided to hide not only the leaderboard but also the in progress metrics at the bottom. Did that and then next ride I beat my PR by like 5-10%. I guess a lot of it is mental, and you learn what motivates you or holds you back as you go.
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Oh good god yes!!! Thank you!!
Wake Up might be in the top 5 GOAT songs to get me through the tough part of a ride…
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Take a 10 or 15 minute ftp warm up then the 20 minute class. No specific class, just pick an instructor you like and run it.