I read somewhere that there is no power meter, they simply calculate power using resistance and cadence. Huge variance in the condition of the brakes on these bikes, so no surprise that it would be inaccurate
Where I Put My Peloton
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I am still patiently waiting for *that* picture of someone's ass with a Peleton intimately close...
What I take from this thread. “Peloton watts”
Will strive to use them in daily conversation
Will strive to use them in daily conversation
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Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
Flywheel users are left reeling with how the company handled news of its bikes shutting down.
Bricked is hyperbole. Their online courses won't function. The physical bike will still be the same.Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
Flywheel users are left reeling with how the company handled news of its bikes shutting down.www.theverge.com
Plus Peloton offered a trade to a refurb Peloton bike. That seems quite a reasonable offer for those who want continuing online content.
Yup, 17,000 people on Zwift today.
And in Peloton Political news...
www.popularmechanics.com
the last paragraph really jumped out at me...I wonder how many hours of Trump’s Presidency he played virtual golf?
Joe Biden Can't Bring His Peloton to the White House
The president-elect will have to sweat somewhere else.
www.popularmechanics.com
the last paragraph really jumped out at me...I wonder how many hours of Trump’s Presidency he played virtual golf?
How come trump’s Peleton wasn’t a problem?And in Peloton Political news...
Joe Biden Can't Bring His Peloton to the White House
The president-elect will have to sweat somewhere else.
the last paragraph really jumped out at me...I wonder how many hours of Trump’s Presidency he played virtual golf?
Peloton says it may consider cutting jobs and 'resetting' production | CNN Business
Peloton CEO John Foley acknowledged Thursday that the company is "considering all options" — including layoffs and production curbs — after a report that the fitness firm has stopped manufacturing its bikes and treadmills sent shares crashing.
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"stopped manufacturing" = sitting on a crapload of unsold inventory.
Yes, not the normal message with supply chain shortages globally.
It's hard to sell somebody who owns a stationary bike another stationary bike. The number of people I know with a peloton is crazy, but once you own one, why would you buy another? They need to drop the price or invent something new.
Do you need the peloton bike to participate in their classes?
If the answer is no...
It seems like a strange business. Like sandwich mentions, only so many people you can sell them to. If only they could tap into the million other trainers out there and start raking in those recurring monthly payments.
If the answer is no...
It seems like a strange business. Like sandwich mentions, only so many people you can sell them to. If only they could tap into the million other trainers out there and start raking in those recurring monthly payments.
All of them?And in Peloton Political news...
Joe Biden Can't Bring His Peloton to the White House
The president-elect will have to sweat somewhere else.
the last paragraph really jumped out at me...I wonder how many hours of Trump’s Presidency he played virtual golf?
I'd laugh at Peloton, but I have a carbon fiber road bike sitting on my $1000 KICKR, so who's the asshole now? But hey, at least I use the hell out of it.
But you don't have a virtual hot Brazilian instructor belittling you.
but that's a bike you can take outside
Yes and no. They have an app, which works really well, and you can take any class with it on any bike. It is cheaper than the subsription on the real bike. Without the real bike, you lose the competitiveness/camaraderie that you get with the real bike. With the real bike, the price doubles, plus you bought a $1500 spin bike, but you get to high five other soccer moms in their basements.
So, if I had room and time for two fitness apps, I would absolutely keep the peloton digital membership...but I don't, and I'd rather spend $2g on a smart trainer and real bike, so I did.
I have a kickr like new in box in the basement.
I might pull it out again someday.
I might pull it out again someday.
You don’t have seven months of winter…
The two days I want to stay inside do not justify that money machine.
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Echelon persuades USPTO that Peloton’s streaming tech is unpatentable
It’s too late for Flywheel, but this is good news for Peloton’s rivals
karen would like to speak to the managerEchelon persuades USPTO that Peloton’s streaming tech is unpatentable
It’s too late for Flywheel, but this is good news for Peloton’s rivals
Someone I follow on Strava did a +100km zwift ride recently.
I don't know how they could do that inside for that long.
Peloton to replace its CEO, cut 2,800 jobs
The beleaguered fitness company said Tuesday it will replace its co-founder and CEO John Foley and slash 20 percent of its corporate workforce.
In a northwest Ohio industrial park, up the highway from a new Amazon.com Inc. warehouse and a soon-to-open solar-panel plant, Peloton Interactive Inc. PTON -1.49%▼ is building a million-square-foot factory that it will never use.
The once-hot stationary bike maker is selling the facility, initially set to cost $400 million and to be completed this fall, as it races to downsize a manufacturing operation expanded by leaders who believed Covid-driven demand would outlive the pandemic.
Its miscalculation about demand and the shift in the market have been so costly that Peloton—a company worth nearly $50 billion about a year ago—has laid off thousands of people, had to borrow $750 million to head off a cash crunch and is exploring a sale of a minority stake. It is a reminder that strategic choices—not just pandemic forces—determine how businesses emerge from the crisis. Peloton’s value fell to less than $5 billion this past week.
In late 2020—with homebound consumers clamoring for its bikes—Peloton’s co-founder and longtime chief executive, John Foley, dismissed the idea that the company was growing too much based on a demand spike that could prove temporary.
The once-hot stationary bike maker is selling the facility, initially set to cost $400 million and to be completed this fall, as it races to downsize a manufacturing operation expanded by leaders who believed Covid-driven demand would outlive the pandemic.
Its miscalculation about demand and the shift in the market have been so costly that Peloton—a company worth nearly $50 billion about a year ago—has laid off thousands of people, had to borrow $750 million to head off a cash crunch and is exploring a sale of a minority stake. It is a reminder that strategic choices—not just pandemic forces—determine how businesses emerge from the crisis. Peloton’s value fell to less than $5 billion this past week.
In late 2020—with homebound consumers clamoring for its bikes—Peloton’s co-founder and longtime chief executive, John Foley, dismissed the idea that the company was growing too much based on a demand spike that could prove temporary.