The Bike+ was fun. The rides are fun and the community is a great pull. I don’t have Facebook anymore, which a lot of the Peloton community is based off, so I felt like I missed out a bit. But in terms of equipment the bike is very good and it measures power well. And the classes are a lot of fun and the instructors are a big reason why Peloton is so good. But the reason I sold it for a Kickr was because the rides were not obviously ‘niche’ enough for the type of training I wanted to do (road cycling races and gran fondos).
With that being said do I regret selling the Bike+ for a Wahoo Kickr: absolutely not. The Kickr allows me to use multiple apps for training and riding that fits my wants and needs.
Do I miss my Peloton: a little. Like I said the rides were fun and the ecosystem was very good (albeit expensive with the $40/month subscription). I would consider getting back into it if one of the bikes’ price dropped below $1000. Or an ideal situation would be if the Peloton Digital App released support for smart trainers (such as a Wahoo Kickr) so I could do Peloton rides on Erg mode with my Kickr. But I doubt that is in the pipeline anytime soon.
And? It is called “marketing”…I reckon 90%+ of Peloton users had no idea what “Peloton” meant when they signed up.
Hell, half the people here can’t even spell it properly…
If they were targeting cycling enthusiasts, they’d be advertising on cycling websites and targeting your social media…but they aren’t. Their primary demographic are fitness enthusiasts, not cyclists.
Not to mention the addition of their treadmill and off-equipment training.
The key point being, that despite what we might associate based upon their name, the P is NOT aimed at cyclists in the way we might think. It’s a fitness brand that uses a bike for one aspect of that process.
The first year, I remember they were constantly advertising during the TdF broadcast in the US and I remember us all talking about what a terrible marketing strategy that was. I think they figured it out.
And? It is called “marketing”…I reckon 90%+ of Peloton users had no idea what “Peloton” meant when they signed up.
I agree with you, that’s why I followed up my first sentence with the following:
Although we can admit, cycling has started to attract even more of the mainstream fitness crowd including runners, gym and cross-fit athletes. And that name PELOTON is the perfect title to bring in anyone to the cycling world.
Lets pair the name with the standard spin class, gym style vibe. That will sell.
I think enough of the " non cycling " fitness populous do know to associate the word Peloton with cycling. They may not know or knew what it meant when they were deciding to buy the bike, but they knew the word to be associated with cycling. Hence, Marketing. I agree with you.
I’m all for the Peloton and what it does. Nothing wrong with it.
I think it’s easy for people to dislike a hipsters product that cost $3000 and $40/mo for virtual spin classes. I think their out of control stock market story had something to do with it as well - darling overpriced IPO and all that. The bikes now start at $1500 and the stock has skidded steadily down.
I don’t understand why the Peloton app is $12/month but the subscription is $40/month if you bought their hardware. My sister does the $12/month and rides her own bike.
Their bikes were never $3K…the original bike was $2245 when it was introduced. That price has since been lowered due to the introduction of the Bike+.
You are creating a causation between the unit pricing and the stock value when there are a combination of factors, with decreasing demand coming out of COVID being a major factor.
Agreed but I also think @AJS914 has a point about subscription pricing. You would think if I am paying $1500+ for a bike that I would get the subsidized, lower subscription rate.
I suppose Peloton’s rationale is that someone, who has already bought a $1500+ bike, is captive to whatever the subscription rate is because the bike is kind of useless otherwise. As opposed to the the digital subscription where you are trying to attract users who are not servient to a ecosystem locked bike.
I’m just explaining why I think people might give them a hard time. Otherwise, I don’t give a second thought to Peloton.
For some reason $3K for the bike stuck in my head but as you said it was $2245 for the bike and $4295 for the treadmill that sucked a kid underneath and killed him. The point is still the same, it’s an expensive item. Anyway, who cares? I don’t It’s a lot cheaper now.
@dcrainmaker is always my first stop when contemplating the pros and cons of sports tech stuff. We almost bought one about 3-months ago for my better half (well and me…it looks like fun). We went with another similar product because of her ties to BBOD. So far she’s happy. My neighbor swears by it. It’s changed cycling for her completely and her husband rides it too. They both like it a lot. I think Ray sums it up with “it just works.”
Good luck @Gustavo_Cinci with the decision. I’m sure the sales will be solid in coming weeks.
The unfortunate reality is that Peloton is hardly the first treadmill to kill a child, and almost every other treadmill on the market would kill a child in the same manner as a Peloton. They just happened to be the big name brand that attracted attention with a single well-distributed model to focus on (if you don’t believe me, go try it, simply take an exercise ball like the one in the video and stick it towards the back of your treadmill…watch what happens.)
At this point, as one who just stepped off a Peloton Tread, the new auto-lock software updates makes it easily the safest treadmill out there. It locks virtually instantly when you walk away.
Anyways, I always find it funny. I use Peloton, Zwift, and TrainerRoad interchangeably. The only people who get upset about Peloton are the people who’ve never used it. Anyone who’s actually used it know there’s a wide variety of stuff on the platform to fit pretty much any training needs. Just like there is on Zwift or TrainerRoad.
It’s this bizarre hate for something, often by a person with three $6-8,000 bikes hanging on a wall next to them, riding a $3,200 smart bike, wearing Rapha’s indoor training kits…all while having subscriptions to both Zwift & TrainerRoad concurrently.
My wife got the Peloton bike in the spring, I was too lazy to move by bike on and off the Wahoo so started using it mid week during the summer. I am not really a huge fan of the normal spin classes but the Power Zone training is excellent. The other programs (weights, core, etc) are a bonus and are also very good.
Agreed, although the risk (getting pulled under the treadmill by the running belt) varies with the height of the belt above the floor, weight of the “tail” end of the treadmill, and presence (or not) of a fence in the back of the device. Keep in mind they had a second, unrelated recall on the Tread due to faulty touch screen mounting hardware.
