To help you find the best one for you and your preferred workout intensity, we talked to experts to find out what they recommended, dug through our fitness and cycling archives, and pulled out our staff-favorite exercise bikes.
“For a lot of the older or cheaper models, it’s hard to find singular things like knobs or wheels to replace.” “Things fall apart really easily,” she says. And eventually, you’ll just end up having two or trying to sell one.” She recommends investing in a bike that will offer longevity cheaper, less-recognizable brand-name options will likely cause more headaches down the road. If you get the cheap one, you’re just going to regret it. “It’s worth buying the pricier option, rather than trying to find some cheap one. “Shopping for a bike is like shopping for an appliance like a blender,” says Lindsey “Gater” Gaterman, group fitness instructor and cycle lead at Vital Climbing Gym in Brooklyn. Some will let you join live classes or work out with a virtual personal trainer from the comfort of your own living room, while others are simply emulate a long bike ride. But since it launched in 2012, a whole slew of Wi-Fi-connected spin bikes have flooded the market. The Peloton changed the modern-day exercise bike as we know it.
