FitDesk Bike Desk 3.0 - Adjustable Height Standing Desk Exercise Bike, Built-in Tablet Holder, Lightweight Stationary Laptop Table for Home Office, Supports Up to 300 lbs, Ideal for Home Workouts

I started out looking at under desk pedal exercisers. But I wasn't convinced I'd use it, I wasn't sure I'd have under desk clearance, and I was concerned about noise. Then I found this and I thought, hey, why not. Well, I love it. I strapped my laptop onto the desk and I ride whenever I use the laptop. A couple of hours a day.Set up was easy. A nice touch is that you don't get a bag of bolts and screws. Everything is loosely attached where it is supposed to go, (like, three bolts with locking washers are screwed into the seat; you unscrew them, put the seat in place, and then screw them back in). So, you don't have to fish around for hardware. Everything is solid and heavy duty - holes lined up and everything fit together solidly. Wiring is all done; just plug the monitor in. Resistance control is already fully installed. It took a little over an hour to assemble, and I took my time.Couple of things. I'm pretty duck-footed, so my heels usually hit the crank on exercise bikes. On this the cranks angle out enough that I have good clearance. I can even use the pedal clips instead of putting my feet way out on the outer edges of the pedals.That wrist rest thing? I thought it was a joke, but it's essential. You rest your forearms on it to type or to do anything on the desktop. Without it you'd have to hold your hands and arms up in the air and that would get old quickly.The stretchy resistance thing I could take or leave, but I do fool with it when I just sit and read my Kindle.Seat is fine. I might pick up a cover some time, but it's not essential.I use a mouse for my laptop and there's no room on the desktop for that, so I'm using the touchpad, which is O.K. You could rig up an extension if it really matters.The machine is totally quiet. No sound from the bike at all and no vibration into the floor.The desk top slides forward and back, so you can adjust to get just the right reading distance for your laptop screen.I could go on, but the bottom line is that I'm delighted by this. It's solid; it works; it's good value.(I burned off 125 calories typing this review. Before, I would have done it on the couch. Sweet.)(FitDesk gives away a free bike to a school for every ten Amazon reviews that are posted. So, while I would have done a review anyway, I guess I should just note that non-monetary incentive for reviewers.)December 31, 2015 update. So, after 2,500 miles I started to get a clicking/grinding from the wheel housing that said "bad bearings" to me. I looked through Amazon comments and saw that this was a fairly common complaint about bikes bought around when I bought mine. Most people said the problem was promptly addressed. Not expecting much I went to the FitDesk website, found support, and sent a brief email asking if they'd stand by the bike. Get this. Email sent 12/28 at 3:30pm. Acknowledgment received at 4:10. Offer to replace entire main frame assembly at no cost and request for shipping address received at 5:01. On 12/31 entirely new frame delivered to my door. Twenty minutes later I'm on my new, reengineered, whisper smooth bike. Incredible. I love these guys.

After building a standing desk to balance out the 8-10 hours I spend working in front of a computer, I found myself wanting to do more than just stand. I considered getting a walking treadmill but price and size were discouraging. I also didn't like the idea of raising my desk too high to compensate for the height of a treadmill. I figured it would take an extra 4" of desk height to make this usable with a treadmill. I also didn't want to give up too much floor space and struggle with moving a large treadmill around the office. One day I was notified of an Amazon Gold box deal and discovered this exercise bike. For the money, I decided to give it a shot. I had actually considered getting a trainer stand for my actual mountain bike to try and use it at my desk. But again the amount of space it would take up, along with the question of whether the handlebars would be in the way, prevented me from trying that route.Assembly was very easy, with many of the bolts already in place, making finding the pieces much easier. It took me about a half hour to put everything together. I started by using the fully assembled bike in front of my desk, using the desktop as a surface for my keyboard and trackpad (a mouse didn't work too well without an additional mouse pad due to the rubberized top). The desktop area is optimized more for holding laptop anyway. With the keyboard and trackpad I found that I was actually able to work while cycling. But since I had to place the bike about a couple of feet in front of the desk, it made using my multi monitor setup challenging. I pedaled about 12 miles that first day though and broke out a respectable sweat.The next day I found that by removing the desktop part of the bike, it allowed me to position the bike underneath my standing desk. I just had to mount the bike's display onto the frame. This way I was able to leave everything on the desk and work just as I would while standing. What's also nice is that when I step off the bike, I can even remain standing just over the seat and work in standing mode. Throughout the day I could easily switch from standing to cycling to mix things up. I pedaled another 12 miles that second day.So far, the bike is working out well for my plan of squeezing in two kinds of work during my computer time. My only quibble at this point is that the seat seems to be cushy but actually isn't comfortable for a full day, which makes it good that I can go from standing to sitting on the seat easily enough. I'll try a gel seat like I use on my real bike to see if it helps. In the meantime I'm adding some additional cushion in the form of a folded towel.Riding the bike is a bit different than a traditional bike. You're not positioned over the pedals but you're also not quite in a recumbant position either. It takes some getting used to but I've found so far that it does place a good amount of emphasis on your leg muscles so that you can get a good workout even when pedaling lightly. The foot straps and back rest help out nicely too for this kind of pedaling.I really like that it folds compactly and is relatively light and easy enough to move completely out of the way if necessary. When folded, it takes up only about a couple of square feet.It's also nice to keep track of time, distance, speed and calories while using the bike. I manually log the data into my smartphone tracker but it would be a nice touch to have a way to automate the collection of this data (hint for FitDesk).Since the pairing of this bike with a standing desk worked out well for me, it will be interesting to see if FitDesk releases a standing desk version of the bike, without the desktop.In all I'm glad I got it and look forward to logging some serious miles as a ride towards better health for my work days. I've been averaging about 10 miles per day in the first week that I've had the bike. Oh and by the way, I wrote this review while pedaling on my FitDesk.