It doesn’t have a built-in screen, so you’ll need an iPad, tablet, smartphone or smart TV to use the Wattbike Hub or another training app of your choice. Bring your favourite studio workouts home with the NordicTrack New Commercial S22i Studio Cycle, featuring digital incline and decline, 24 levels of SMR™ Silent Magnetic Resistance and huge 22” full colour capacitive touch display. The handlebars also have a built-in heart rate monitor, though it won’t be as accurate as a wireless heart-rate monitor. The flywheel is perhaps the most important aspect of any spin bike and the one on this Body Power model does not disappoint.

Our yellow jersey definitely goes to the Schwinn IC8 because even though it’s not officially a connected bike, its excellent connectivity and compatibility makes it very easy to train with a third-party app, while the bike itself is an absolute dream ride in terms of smooth resistance and excellent bike geometry to suit all shapes and sizes of riders. It features a quick-lock friction pad to easily change the intensity of the ride, and has all the adjustments you need for a comfortable experience. We recommend the collapsible Pro Fitness FEB1000 bike, which is comfortable in the saddle with supportive handlebars, and stashes away nicely too. Instead, many will be after a piece of kit for more modest cardio goals, only using the bike for a few hours a week.A staple in any home gym environment, racer bikes are designed to simulate hill climbing and sprinting, demanding high intensity to maximise calorie burn. For me, yes – the main incentive to purchase an exercise bike is that it might give me the motivation to actually ride it. It has 22 gears of electromagnetic resistance, more than enough for riders of every level of fitness and experience. The robust and functional design includes a 20kg flywheel, which, combined with the tension controlled resistance and belt drive system provides an incredibly smooth ride.

There are a wide range of immersive ‘outdoor’ rides and you can also stream from apps including Netflix, Youtube and many more.Indoor Trainer Cycle is the most advanced of the official Tour de France Cycles, and comes packed with features for the ultimate cycling experience. Pitched as ‘budget friendly equipment’, Roger Black Fitness has a few exercise bikes to choose from but this premium option sticks to a decent budget. It features a very intuitive, easy-to-use, 22in HD touchscreen and you can see your progress on a leaderboard of connected cyclists. For example, cycle as hard as you can on a higher resistance for two minutes, then cycle at a more relaxed pace for five minutes. You can stream cycling and strength classes from Technogym’s own studio as well as spin classes from top studios ( 1Rebel and Virgin Active’s Revolution) live and on-demand.

But the user interface isn’t quite as slick as Peloton, and the graphics and sound aren’t as good quality. The problem with many of the less expensive bikes is their limited adjustability, which makes it difficult to find a comfortable riding position and immediately puts up barriers to achieving your weekly fitness goals. The running joke about an exercise bike used to be that after a couple of weeks of pedalling, it would slowly turn into a very expensive clothes horse because they were always fairly basic machines.

As well as this, the seat was very easy to adjust mid-workout and the bike didn’t take over the room. Although they still cater for high energy spin classes there’s a little less hype and Britney when it comes to your morning sweat session. The flywheel runs super silent and operates on magnetic resistance, and there are 32 levels – plenty to get your heart pumping or to make for an easy warm down.

The bike is supremely comfortable to ride, either upright or in a racing position, with a whisper-quiet flywheel and magnetic resistance that offers infinite resistance. That’s not the case with this machine that allows you to angle the handlebars and also position the seat through seven different heights and adjust it horizontally. It’s just as much an exercise in design as it is indoor cycling engineering, but if you have just won the lottery then the bike will also deliver a complete fitness experience too. The LCD screen brightly displays 12 programmes and measures speed, time-elapsed, distance covered, calories burned, pulse, watts and RPM. Get ready to take your cycling performance to the next level with our exercise and spinning bike parts!Interval training involves short bursts of intense exercise spaced between longer intervals of less intense exercise. Installations to the following postcode may take slightly longer than the quoted lead time: AB, BB7, BD23 - BD24. IC14 looks great and upon going through a relatively simple 20-minute assembly process you will more than likely be impressed with both the stability of the spin bike and its striking red and black design. IC14 Indoor Studio Cycle – a spin bike that has the functionality and long-lasting qualities of more expensive alternatives. There are multiple handle positions on the bars which are really comfortable, and the nice saddle makes this one of the most rideable bikes on test.