PYHIGH Magnetic Stationary Exercise Bike for Home Indoor Cycling Bikes Excersize Bike Comfortable Seat Cushion Belt Drive Ipad Holder with LCD Monitor Cardio Workout Fitness Machine

Edit:I'm putting this at the top of my review because newbies to spin bikes seem to be blaming the seat of this bike for hurting their butt. It's not the bike. When you are new to cycling the tissue in your tailbone is very sensitive. either only one type of bike saddle will work (the one your butt got used to) or none. Eventually your butt will develop a tolerance to pressure directly on the "sit bones". This is not an overnight process. If you have overly sensitive tissue that do not cover the nerves well the best practice is to spend only a few minutes on the bike each day and gradually increase the time. It's a conditioning process.I've been buying from Amazon for over 20 years. This is the best packaged large size product that has been delivered to me. Extremely well thought out and considered. Even the tips of the pedals were covered in small zip lock bags and rubber banded to protect the threads.I am a very experienced cyclist having traveled internationally for cycling camps. I was putting this purchase off for years because I already own 7 bicycles. Buying a spin bike seemed ridiculous with that many bikes. But at this time there is no low noise option that can be had for $300 or less to use your bicycle for indoor exercise. Tacx and Wahoo now have some low noise trainers but they are expensive and still make more noise than this PyHigh spin bike. I researched belt drive spin bikes instead of chain drive spin bikes and learned that belt drive are whisper quiet. I waited for Cyber Monday and started looking at the sales. That's when I came across this spin bike and decided to pair the bike with a very thick recycled rubber exercise matt for $50 called Rubber-Cal shark tooth heavy duty matt. It's 3/4" thick and the length and width is 2 x 3 feet. Its about a half inch too small but you'll get the spin bike on there enough. This matt will absorb the movement and vibration. The second thing is to buy some WD-40 white lithium grease. I sprayed this on any part of the bike where metal is making contact with metal... otherwise it will squeak with repeated use. When your child's bicycle is squeaking it's 99% because it needs bicycle grease in the pedals threads, in between the pedals, the ball bearings in between the wheels and the rear chain ring teeth and the chain itself. So I sprayed the white lithium grease on the threads of the big seat knob, in the screws underneath the seat, in the threads of the big handle bar knob in the tube where the grey handle bar neck (stem) slides into the black frame, a small amount on the threads of the pedals (before installing, otherwise they will be very hard to get off if you decide to upgrade to clipless pedals), and a tiny spot on the surface of the flywheel to eliminate the friction squeak from the felt brake. This bike is now so quite a baby can sleep next to it. Mission accomplished.Pros:1- very Good finishing on the paint. I'm might try using a synthetic car wax on the black paint to keep sweat from rusting the paint. Body sweat is extremely salty and will cut right through paint and once the paint is worn down the moisture in the air will rust out the steel underneath. They also sell sweat guards for spin bikes.2- the saddle has a cut out to reduce stress on the genitals and the saddle has two large shock absorbing springs. The padding is very well done. a little squeaky a first but this is a part of breaking in.3-The pedals are not terrible. The toe clips are a semi soft plastic that won't hurt the top of your foot and are large enough for a full size sneaker. I thought about installing my real bicycle pedals for my clipless bike shoes but I think having to change shoes will encourage me to be lazy and not ride the bike. This way I can just jump on the bike as soon as I come home and start pedaling.4-The flywheel has a quiet, smooth movement and feels like a gym quality spin bike. I think since this is belt drive the flywheel does not keep spinning when you stop pedaling. For a beginner that's probably better. There's evidence that this is also easier for your knees.5-the resistance knob is basic felt friction brake but it is effective. at first I was not optimistic that I would like this since it seemed a little cheap feeling. But when I did my first interval workout (see the graph I posted in pictures) it proved to work well. Basically I used my Polar H7 heart monitor chest strap (for Android) and paired it with the Polar Beat application. As you can see I started the workout in the blue warm up zone.The app computes your maximum heart rate based on the "220 minus your age" formula. So if you're 30 your standard maximum heart rate is 190 beats per minute (bpm). Which means your fat burning heart rate 65% of 190 or 123 bpm. The "endurance" for extra intensity effort begins at 80% or 152 bpm for a fit 30 year old. In my case I gradually turned the knob one full turn to raise my heart rate into the green fat burning zone from the blue warm up zone. I continued the workout gradually over 20 minutes to turn the knob again in full term increments as my heart rate climbed into the yellow high intensity zone. Another turn of the red knob pushed my heart rate on the very edge of the yellow zone but not passing into the red zone of maximum heart rate. The app works by having you enter your age, weight and level or activity. Them it indicates what your heart rate percentage is currently. Anything below 65% is too low. Anything above 70% to 80% is where you are burning both fat and glycogen and should not be done without talking to your doctor if you have no experience with high intensity exercise or are over 45 and have not had a physical examination. The resistance knob will help you monitor if the intensity is too low or too high. The workout chart I posted was 10 intervals from blue zone to the limit of the yellow zone and back down again. In a one and half hour session For these 10 intervals (I did this slowly) I burned 1,000 calories. I then did a slow cool down phase of 20 minutes until my heart rate was close to my normal heart rate. about 1500 calories total in mostly the fat burn zone (65% - 80%). To figure out my normal heart rate I wore the chest strap for 2 hours with the app running as "indoor cycling" while I just sat on the couch and walked around the house and recorded this as a workout. To my surprise my resting heart rate was not where it used to be indicating that I'm out of shape (mostly because of a back injury that kept me off my real bike for a year). I should have purchased this bike earlier to get me back on track. So long way of saying that used correctly the resistance knob will do the job of getting you into each heart rate zone gradually.6-the stability adjustment knobs on the corners of the base legs. you can turn the knob and make sure the bike is completely flat and level. I can't find my carpentry level at the moment but I will test this out at some point.7- Tablet and phone holder. This is very convenient. I used this by placing the spin bike directly in front of my large living room TV. I used my tablet on the spin bike to pull up YouTube videos of GoPro bike rides on road and mountain bike courses and using my Google Chromecast to play these videos to the TV. Between monitoring my heart rate on my phone and watching the long GoPro videos you don't worry about time going too slowly. I purchased an additional Jubor tablet holder for spin bikes so that my tablet sits up high running YouTube like on the overpriced Peleton bike (without having to spend $2k on a Peleton). I'll use the PyHigh tablet holder that the bike comes with for my Samsung phone to run the Polar Beat app.Cons1. not any really other than in the next design of the bike it should include a handlebar that extends behind the neck (stem) for people with shorter arms or to have more positions to rest your hands. Some spin bikes have two bars on the flat part of the handle bar so you can lay your wrist so that your arms are pointing down or so that your arms are in front of your chest. You should also raise the handlebar height enough so that there are no pressure points on your wrists when you are holding your weight there. If you feel the wrists aching the handlebar is likely too low. The top bullhorn positions on this PyHigh handlebar are also good. You can hold onto to those when you get out to pedal in a standing position. But the lower part of the handlebar. could be improved.2-the current speed display monitor is not bad but it only displays the speed on kilometers. If you're not too good with tablets and phones then this is more for you. But honestly most spin bikes dont have a monitor that can compete with a tablet and Android tablets are al cheap now. Maybe a spin bike company can do a deal for a basic YouTube tablet. That might be enough for someone to pick one brand over another.Overall for the price I dont think you can get a better spin bike. It is well made, smooth and super quiet. I thought about getting a much more expensive bike but I'm glad I didn't. If you lubricate the metal points and bearings every 2 weeks with WD-40 white lithium grease it will stay quite.Aslo they give you a jump rope, stretching bands (important) before and after your workouts or you'll be sore the next day and a very useful charging cable for micro USB, USB type C and Apple lightning. I tested the cable with my AccuBattery app and it delivered fast charging to all my devices that had fast charging capability.I will update this review as I plan to use this spin bike every other day this winter.

My husband and I were looking for an exercise bike we could both use. Let me start off by saying this bike is very easy to put together, you could do it without the instructions. How do I know? Because my husband had it inside and completely put together the day it arrived before I got home from work, (he only gets home about 20 minutes before me), and he hadn't even taken the instructions out of the box.As someone who has not ridden a bike it a while I will say my a** was so sore after riding this thing the first time and my legs were like jelly. A few months postpartum and not having exercised in a long time will do that. The more I use the bike the more my body gets used to it and I can ride longer and longer without being sore now.I am concerned the wool pad will wear down quickly since my husband likes to ride with a lot of resistance but so far it seems like it will last. We've had the bike for over a month now and he rides it almost daily, me more like a few times a week at most.This bike is super quiet which we love! It rides very smooth. The wheels on the bottom are kinda small and whimpy to move the bike around nicely, but the bike is not terribly heavy at all if you have two people it's very easy to move. I helped my husband carry it downstairs after we assembled it and was surprised how light it was.Overall this bike is a great value at a great price and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for one.

FRAME:The front fork on the bike I received is a little crooked. Maybe just 1 or 2 degrees off. At first, I thought it was the handlebars, and they sent me new handlebars. So, good customer service.Appearance is very sharp. Looks great.HANDLEBARS: The handlebars don’t project straight out, instead they angle and bend inward. So, when in position #3, your arms will be inward rather than straight out.The handlebars have an oversized upside down “U” bar welded in the middle, which limits your space for your hands when seated or in position #2. For me, the insides of my hands (the thumb to forefinger area) gets sore after a while because they are pressed up against this metal. The handlebar shouldn’t have been designed like this. For me, this really is the worst part of the bike. If they were to offer a new handlebar without this problem, I would buy it in a second.Also, the size of the joint where the handlebars attach to the post is so big (even bigger with the phone/tablet holder attached) that I can’t see the tension knob while standing (position #2 or #3). When I’m in the middle of an intense standing workout I have to quickly sit to see the knob and turn it. It’s annoying and breaks my rhythm.ADJUSTMENTS:The handlebars do not adjust by sliding forward and backward at all. It’s just one position.The seat slides back and forth very little, so adjustments don’t make much difference.Both the seat and handlebar vertical posts never tightly secure in place no matter how hard you tighten them, they wobble, and are very creaky during workouts, despite tightening them over and over. So, you have to just accept the noise and slight movement during a workout. I still feel the bike is secure and won’t break, though. It is interesting that in the product listing they make a conscious effort to point out that these items are “stable”. I don’t think that is accurate.Both the seat and handlebar vertical posts could be a little longer. I would like to be able to set my seat and handlebar heights up about one or two levels higher, but there’s no more post left to do that. I’m not sure anyone over 6-foot would be comfortable, but I guess I could be wrong. I would search other reviews if this is a concern. I’m 5-10.OTHER:The tension adjustments are inconsistent. You have to “play it by ear” when making adjustments during a workout, because sometimes a full turn adds almost nothing and other times a full turn seems to add several levels of resistance. I’m used to the commercial-grade bikes at my fitness club, where one full turn of the knob always equaled one level change. That’s definitely not how this bike works, though. But you still can get super-heavy and super-light resistance, as well as medium levels. You just have to search for them. The pedaling is smooth.The pedals don’t have toe clips for spin shoes, so I had to buy another set of pedals.The “computer” that is included is pretty cheap and plastic-y. Worse is that it doesn’t track RPM/cadence, so what’s the point? Meanwhile it tracks “calories”, which is – of course – not possible if it’s something like this that only attaches to the bike. I had to buy a cadence tracker.The phone/tablet holder attaches over the oversized upside down “U” bar welded in the middle of the handlebars, has sharp plastic edges, and digs into my hands between my thumbs and forefingers.The seat is nice. I can see a lot of people liking it. For me, it’s just a little too wide in the back and sometimes makes my inner thighs hurt. Obviously, I could switch it out for a new seat if it got to be too much.The pedaling itself is relatively quiet but, as noted before, you can expect a lot of creaking noises from the frame, handlebars, and seat.It was easy to assemble.I wonder if the felt tension pad will eventually wear out? If so, how easy is it to get a replacement part and replace it? I don’t know these things.OVERALL:I think, for the price, this is a great deal. The bike gets the job done and looks great sitting in my house. Sure, there are plenty of flaws, but nothing I haven’t decided to get over. That’s why I’m giving the bike 4 stars. If you’re okay with the slight compromises you have to make in order to get a bike this cheap, then I recommend this bike for you. It’s not the commercial-quality spin bike I’m used to from my old fitness club, but it’s close enough for me. I get in four or five 45-minute rides a week, and I’m burning 700-800 calories each time.

So I bought this bike during gym closure / Covid restrictions in my province and for the purpose of using my Peloton app membership with it. I have been using it quite regularly and I have yet to see any wear and tear. I still count my blessings that the amazon delivery brought it right to my door (in the apartment building) and it was easy enough for me to assemble by myself.I have been experimenting with height for the seat and the handle so that I'm in the proper position but it is very easy to customize. I haven't had any problems with the pedals but for the first few months I used standard cheap sneakers, and then I switched over to the pump wheelspin shoes (which I found for cheap off Poshmark) but the bottoms are more firm therefore the pedalling is noticeably better with these shoes ( they are in the picture attached). I strongly recommend find a good shoe for any cycling.Back to the bike, I don't really place emphasis on the tracking device that came with it, other than the mileage, (I currently have done 600 miles on it). I got a separate cadence tracker and use my wearable tracker for more accurate data. For maintenance and prolonging the quality of the bike, I did read a review that is probably still below, by a guy who fixes bikes as a career and he suggests what things should be regularly inspected. Honestly, the only part of the bike that is showing wear and this is more of a "me" problem, not a bike problem, is that the seat seams are ripping apart because I got off of it wrong one time. Not a big deal. I use seat covers now.So a year later, am I loving this purchase: Absolutely! I have gotten more cardio workouts than I would have without it, especially since now more and more gyms aren't letting people stand up on their stationary bikes, which is a favourite part of mine. And I love how silent it is in my apartment.PS. look for that thorough review I referenced before buying, it sold me and gave me so much info and confidence that I can maintain and take care of this investment for years to come.

Easy assembly. Sturdy, sleek, fairly easy to move around. The tablet/phone holder is cheap plastic, looks kinda lousy and does not click in or attach well so can pop off easy. Also the battery operated calory/distance tracker looks a bit flimsy. I haven't put batteries in yet but it looks a bit cheap and wouldn't be surprised if it didn't last long. The bike itself is solid though. Since it has a control knob that you tighten to decrease or increase the resistance. You do hear the wheel spinning under the resistance pad so it's not th quietest bike but if you don't care, are listening to music or have your ear buds in. You wouldn't notice. I'm happy with this purchase and glad I have a means to stay fit at home. Took about one hour to assemble. Pretty easy, instructions were clear.

I am very happy with my purchase. I like the bike's beautiful, colorful, unique design; it looks like a decorative object in the corner of my room. With the user-friendly manual, I was able to assemble it easily. The bike is sturdy with an extra-wide, soft, comfortable saddle that is a huge bonus because it makes my workout way more enjoyable, and I noticed that I exercise for longer than I would normally do. The foam handlebar is also comfortable and stable. Pedals fit very well, and the riding is quiet. I place my iPad on the holder, turn on my favorite workout video, and have fun. I wish I would order it much earlier. I love the idea of exercising in the comfort of my own home, any day, any time, for as long as I want to, whenever I feel like it. Great value, highly recommend!

Great spin bike!!! Just received today and put together in about 1/2 hour. Pretty straight forward. The only thing we noticed is the handle bar has a bit of give to it, you really have to tighten to the Max and even still there is a bit of wobble. Doesn’t affect performance though. Very smooth. Can’t comment on durability yet. Happy with purchase.PS - the shipping details were a bit nerve racking - items didn’t show as shipped for 4-5 days and then finally did. Then only showed as “shipment details submitted” (or something to that effect) and then we waited for another 4-5 days with no updates or movement and then boom it was received at our local city’s Purolator depot. Not sure if it’s the shipping companies issue or the manufacturer but I figured it was worth mentioning to others if they’re waiting on their order. Just give it a bit and it will arrive.

fast delivery and easy to assemble. not too heavy yet it seems sturdy enough.it looks nice and material quality seems ok.used it only couple of times so far and I have not pushed it to the limit only gentle ride ( will update in couple of month) but can say it is not as quiet as it is advertised. the seat is a bit tilted downward ( see picture) so you tend to slip. not sure mine is like this or designed like this!! the seat is not as comfortable as it should be. an upgrade seems necessary.the resistance is not the sharp so you need to readjust few times to get it right. the resistance comes from the friction of small pad as it gets pushed by the knob screw towards the wheel and it makes noise. I suspect it requires maintenance frequently. maybe a magnetic one is a better choice.