#Inspirit magnetic pro exercise bike Bluetooth#

It also comes with dual-sided pedals, which include SPD 'clipless' pedals as well as a toe clip side so you can wear your normal shoes, and this also means its rideable straight out of the box.

Its 58cm width and 45kg weight help to make it stable, and while it's certainly possible to unsettle it, that doesn't happen during normal use, even when sprinting.

The IC7 comes with an LCD display that shows your speed, time, distance, RPM, and an estimation of calories burned. Its fixed freehub and 18kg flywheel takes a little bit of extra torque to get going, but the inertia generated helps to prevent that 'pedalling-through-treacle' feeling you can get with cheaper, lighter flywheels. The Schwinn IC7 is a good at-home replica of the 'spin' bikes you'll likely know from the gym. Need to move tablet computer to get to your bottle stowed behind it These are commonly found in different shapes and sizes, from those that mimic a normal cycling position, to those that place you in a more upright comfortable position, and recumbents that have you sitting behind the pedals, rather than above them. These rarely offer any form of connectivity to third-party apps, but will often include a small digital screen that displays speed, distance, time and perhaps your heart rate. Thirdly, there is the original type of exercise bike like those you can still find in the gym.

#Inspirit magnetic pro exercise bike Bluetooth#

These take the traditional spin class gym bikes, which use a heavy fixed flywheel and a manually adjustable knob to control resistance, and then integrate WiFi and Bluetooth to allow your exercise bike to connect to spin classes - both live and on-demand - with real-life instructors and other like-minded athletes from around the world without leaving your home. Secondly, there are connected versions of spin bikes, such as those from Peloton and Echelon. Some even tilt back and forth to mimic the gradient. These use Bluetooth and ANT+ connectivity to connect to your smart device - be that a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet computer - which in turn are used to run indoor cycling apps, which control the resistance offered by the bike in order to provide highly focussed training sessions, realism, interactivity and gamification. Here at Cyclingnews, we regularly report on 'smart bikes', which take the technology developed in the best turbo trainers and apply it to standalone devices.