I’m all for trainers, bikes, and TrainerRoad… but I’ll be honest: my wife has a Peloton. She loves it. Whenever I ride it (or do the Peloton workouts on my regular Drivo or rollers) I love it too. There’s something refreshingly fun about an instructor, new/exciting music, and a ‘spin’ class.
Peloton’s new bikes notwithstanding, it’s not power-based training – and it’s not intended as such. But it is fun. If the only thing I did for indoors cycling was stare at those damn “blue-blocks of doom”, it would a be a crappy long winter.
Zwift works for some, TR for others, Rouvy, RGT, etc too. Peloton fits that mix too. In my case the lion’s share of my work is on TrainerRoad. Hell, I’ve been a subscriber since before the Sufferfest divorce (in 16?) of Reid Weber. So Peloton is a nice diversion. Somebody once said “make your hard days hard, make your easy days easy”. I’ll add: “make your fun days fun”.