You can pedal the bike without a subscription, but you don't get any metrics tracking (you can't even pair it with your watch or iPad), and you don't get any of

You can pedal the bike without a subscription, but you don't get any metrics tracking (you can't even pair it with your watch or iPad), and you don't get any of the interactive classes that most people buy the bike for. I pair my spin bike with my watch so I can track my workouts and performance, so would be pretty unhappy with a bike where I couldn't do that or at least see biking stats online like you can with the Peloton app. But if you have the Peloton Tread treadmill, it's even worse, you literally can't use it without a subscription due to a new "safety feature".