Exercise bikes

OK FOAK, what's the verdict on exercise bikes, i.e. the ones that don't go
anywhere? I see there are fly-wheel chain versions, magnetic versions, air
fan versions. Pros and cons? Need something with variable resistance, and
not too bothered about on board trip computer features as they all seem to
be much about the same.

 

What about the money you lost after being burgled through
leaving the front door open for 25 minutes every other day?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

If it happens after the first month, you'd be able to catch the
burglars.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

Only if you can do it within the first ten minutes, or you'd be too
knackered to drag them back to the house for a nice discreet kicking.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I'm sure you mean: perform a citizen's arrest.

 

Buy a new Dawes Giro 200 off eBay (£220). Buy a second hand turbo trainer
off eBay. Stick bike in trainer and pedal it for 30 minutes.

Next day ride bike around the roads for 30 minutes - never stick it back in
the turbo. Sell the turbo.

Ride the cheap bike with great enjoyment for several years.

John

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Wicked Uncle Nigel

By that time, you'd be fit as a flea and able to leap over tall
dogturds. The mere act of capturing two felons and thrapping seven bells
out of them shouldn't have you breathing heavily.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

What, not even with excitement?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Your new name suits you sir..

 

Switters wrote

Fine for bitch appreciating, get yer heart rate up a treat they do.

 

I hate running, it's just so tedious. I'm already thinner than a thin
thing, but when it's pissing down outside, I don't feel inclined to take
out the mountian bike and get cold, wet and muddy again. With an exercise
bike, I could do other stuff as well[1].

[1] Not sure what yet, but I'm sure I could.

 

I'd get an elliptical trainer, if I were you (this sort of thing:
http://www.nrpt.co.uk/services/equipment/elliptical-trainers.htm). Works
both your upper and lower body, and you can do a few more excercises than on
a bike. Plenty of second-hand ones going on E-bay for under £100, with
minimal use because, like a lot of excercise equipment, people buy them with
good intentions and just don't end up using them.

Unless you spend a serious amount of money, you'll be getting a magnetic
resistance one (unless it's _really_ cheap, and friction-based - but avoid
these like the plague). Make sure it's got a heavy flywheel, or it'll have a
jerky motion and be uncomfortable to use. Having a few different excercise
programmes and a heartrate-based mode would be nice-to-haves. I've got a
Reebok RE2000 (£65 on E-bay), which I've been perfectly happy with.

 

And bugger my knees again?

 

I initially parsed that as 'excrement'.

<goes for a lie down>