Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+

Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by m00x on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:03PM (#25448615)

Great DIY project. It's definitely missing some of the Peloton features like Wattage metering and he didn't include the tablet in the price.

With the 6-8 weeks delivery estimates for Peloton, it's definitely worth the build.

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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by platelets2020 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:35PM (#25449724)

DIY project? He purchased a brand new, off the shelf spin bike and put a cadence sensor on it.

I'm not sure when it happened, but the bar for saying things like "built" has become so low that we get titles and "projects" like these.

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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by JamesMontemagno on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:54PM (#25449905)

I guess I consider it DIY as it is combining the Bike, Tablet, and Sensor together instead of buying an all in 1 package that restricts you to a specific service.

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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by daniellarusso on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:56PM (#25449920)

At least it was not a ‘life hack.’

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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by JamesMontemagno on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:59PM (#25449956)

Yeah, I don't consider my post a hack or constructing the bike from scratch at all. That would be super impressive IMHO. I just did a bunch of research, found the lowest minimal requirements in what I was looking for in a spin bike and wrote about it :)

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