>>1025439I joined a gym to use one of pic related to recover from a knee injury. I'm supposed to spin at minimal resistance to 'polish' my knee cap. It's quite difficult to do that on the road, never putting down any real power.
It's not that bad. If you have a reasonable idea of your position you can dial it in adequately. The resistance adjustment and drivetrain feel good. The variable resistance, fixed drivetrain is good for building pedaling form because you can't coast. It gives a good workout to someone inclined to coast on the road.
The models they have with digital displays, no fore aft adjustment on the saddle, no adjustment on the front end at all, one piece cranks and slop in everything are absolute shit. Those are the bikes almost everyone at the gym i joined choose to use. The rare people who do come into the spin room outside of spin classes to use a decent spin bike generally bring in the 'spin dvd' to have some greasy instructors on video with poor form shout motivational shit at them, blare loud bad music out the speakers, so they can sweat their fat fuck asses at >50rpm.
I think i was originally going to disagree with you but honestly i love cycling and hate the gym.
>Bottom line: Ride a real bike under real conditions.So yeah. Yeah.
