Spinning bikes - any help?

[Charlie T]

anyone have any advice about whether spinning bikes are worth looking at
can you get anything good for under £300
any info would be great thanks

[tel]

I`ve got a spinning bike set up in my garage, which I bought on Ebay a couple of years ago for £200.
I think it is ideal, especially in the winter, much more solid than a turbo for out of the saddle efforts, sprints, etc.
I think there is one advertised in the new Argos catalogue, although I haven`t seen it in the flesh so to speak,
Let me know what you do.

Tel

[Nick Hussey]

I used a great lot of spinning to get me back to fitness afters years of injury.
Not sure if you can change saddles on them but they're usually bloody huge (but snuggly).
I rate DECENT bikes highly but cheap ones (I assume they're cheap, they FEEL cheap anyway) can be an absolute joke and encourage injury.
I haven't looked at prices so I don't know what £300 gets you. Argos sounds worrying as you wouldn't buy a bike from Argos and their stuff is usually pretty basic.
If I saw an image of the bike you're after I could probably tell you!!
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[Nick Hussey]

Just used my bonce and looked at a couple online. £450 is for the cheapest Argos one. The gears look nasty and the saddle is far from fine-tune. That's the main problem with all these bikes. They have a peg system for swizing which leaves a pretty big gap between sizes. But then I'm a sizing obsessive.
The Schwinn looks good for £900 but then that's just silly money. Unless you could get that on Ebay, as mentioned.

[Rob]

where do you use spining bikes?

if you put me in a gym..i can sit ona bike for an hour no problem whilst i watch tv, admire others, etc etc.

as soon as i come home....no way!!

we bought a very expensive multi gym, when im at a gym, i use them for hours on end...this one at home still looks new!!!

dont buy one unless your sure youll use it..these things are boring

[Nick Hussey]

Yea, pretty dull outside a class but with a decent fly-wheel and some Underworld (D Millar's favourite warm-up I hear) it can be a pleasure.
I used to do it loads earlier this year to test whether I could get anywhere near racing standard without knackering my back again. I used a pulsemeter especially.
I go to http://www.cannons.co.uk in Covent Garden near my work. The Cannons in Wimbledon (nearest my home) has the worst static bikes I've ever seen and it's brand new. I walked out in a huff because they didn't even have spds.
I stopped in the summer as riding to work and back but my Missus is yet to be convinced about me riding home in the dark ( I met her after my original racing years, before my injury so she's not used to it) so I spin twice a day 3 days a week to maintain fitness. For now!!
I go into a trance with the loud music. Which is nice.