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I have a DIY Peloton that I love. $500 Echelon connect sport from Walmart plus a $14 a month Peloton digital subscription (vs $40 a month if you pay more for th

I have a DIY Peloton that I love. $500 Echelon connect sport from Walmart plus a $14 a month Peloton digital subscription (vs $40 a month if you pay more for their bike). I have to use a conversion chart for the resistance but that hardly seems worth an extra $1000 + $26 a month. Peloton really does have the best instructors but especially for the hacker new audience, you can put something together that works 95% as well for a much lower price.

_huayra_ 6y ago
Does this still give you the "stats" aspects of Peloton (i.e. is there some power meter on that bike that connects via the Peloton digital thing)? I'm intrigued by Peloton, but after they basically said "we'll start air-freighting our incredibly heavy bikes to deal with the shipping backups", that seemed to be code for "our product has such fat margins that we can quintuple the shipping cost and still make money". This Echelon-based DIY solution seems to be good (especially for one's wallet).