Indoor bikes offer the ideal way to increase cardio strength or reach new fitness goals, featuring comfortable seating, clear displays, helpful metric tracking capabilities and Bluetooth and app connectivity.
Indoor bikes often include multiple workout modes to keep you motivated during a ride. While these features might seem like extras, they’re great motivators!
Sunny Health & Fitness Indoor Cycle Bike
Sunny Health and Fitness of Los Angeles imports fitness equipment from China and Taiwan. They specialize in upright and recumbent bikes that feature heavy flywheels. Our tester Lindsay found riding these affordable machines comfortable as there was no shaking or rocking due to self-leveling floor stabilizers preventing any shaking or rocking while she rode.
Featuring a padded adjustable seat and multi-grip ergonomic handlebars for optimal body fit, users can tailor this bike to their body type. Furthermore, this bike is compatible with clipless cycling shoes for optimal foot placement at high speeds to avoid slippage. It even comes equipped with a foot cage feature to avoid foot slippage during fast riding!
An LCD display of speed, distance and time provides motivation during your workout session. For a more tailored workout experience, connect via Bluetooth with your mobile device to access SunnyFit App cycling programs led by professional trainers as well as 180 day parts warranty coverage on other components. The SunnyFit Bike has a three year frame warranty as well as 180 day coverage on parts.
Bowflex Velocore
The Bowflex Velocore is one of the most innovative interactive bikes on the market, boasting a 22″ HD touchscreen, built-in Bluetooth speakers and media rack for your smart device. Furthermore, it comes equipped with three 3-pound dumbbells that fit neatly underneath its console – as well as its leaning mode which enables you to tilt side-to-side during workouts for increased core and arm engagement while making spin workouts much more engaging!
This bike comes with two screen sizes — 16″ and 22″, both including a one-year subscription to JRNY for daily workouts, personalized coaching and streaming entertainment. Additionally, there’s a built-in heart rate monitor and micro-adjustable resistance levels so you can fine-tune the challenge as your fitness improves.
Yosuda Indoor Stationary Bike
While it lacks the sophisticated connectivity and state-of-the-art display of our top bikes, Yosuda Indoor Stationary Bike still looks and feels great. It features a sturdy frame with a 35 lb flywheel for smooth pedaling action as well as various adjustments that give an authentic workout feel; plus its athletic upright body position makes it feel just like what you would find at any gym!
The battery-powered LCD monitor displays your basic workout metrics such as time elapsed, current speed, calories burned and ride distance. Pressing one of its five buttons enables you to focus on one particular metric or scroll through all five metrics at once.
This budget-friendly belt-driven bike utilizes friction resistance, providing users with multiple settings for customizing the training experience. With a maximum weight capacity of 350 pounds and adjustments for seat, handlebar and pedals. Assembly should be relatively straightforward: two people should be necessary to unpack it while experienced riders may prefer taking care when removing handlebars.
NordicTrack S22i
NordicTrack’s S22i indoor bike offers a comfortable, ergonomically sound experience for most riders. It features caged pedals with clip-in cleats that accommodate shoes with clip-in cleats for avid cyclists who can get maximum benefit out of their workout session. Furthermore, its 22-inch touchscreen provides instantaneous stats updates as well as HD streaming capability; plus it tilts and rotates so it can easily be seen from across any room in which it’s placed.
NordicTrack’s S22i stands out with its exercise programming platform iFit, featuring an expansive library of cycling classes led by elite trainers as well as an incline and decline feature that mimics real-world riding conditions. Seat and handlebar adjustments enable easy fitting for various riders; making the S22i an impressive rival to Peloton in terms of technology and class availability; however it lacks live workout classes offered on Peloton.
