In addition to streaming the instruction, the touchscreen attached to the bike shows your metrics and provides a leaderboard, where you can monitor your performance compared to everyone taking a live class at that moment, or everyone who has ever taken an on-demand class. Called Tread, the treadmill has a US price tag of $3,995 plus the Peloton monthly subscription. Founder and CEO John Foley says that Peloton is profitable and considering going public. *Get the Peloton Bike for as low as £51.03/mo over 39-months at 0% APR based on a full price of £1,990.
New ones are always being added, as there are more than 90 live classes each week, which are archived to the library right after. Get Started.


But Peloton is not just a bike. A user from Brooklyn who goes by the moniker Willryde4pizza joins while I’m mid-spin and “high-fives” me by pressing a button next to my name – the Peloton equivalent to a Facebook poke.It’s a smooth ride, but it certainly doesn’t come cheap.

I left every SoulCycle class drenched in sweat due to the temperature in the room, but I sweat way more at home from working hard during Peloton classes. He calls the bike a “family investment” that the whole household can use (multiple users can share a subscription). On the other hand, as a bike owner, if you stop paying for the membership, your bike’s usability is seriously limited to just a few cycling classes, no leaderboard, and free pedalling on your own—the tension knob will still work, at least. But the Peloton is not just a piece of equipment. When you want to exercise on the bike, you may take a live class at a preset time or pick one whenever you want from the on-demand library, which holds thousands of prerecorded rides. The App is included in the cost of a Peloton All-Access Membership, required to activate your Bike or Tread. “I’m very big on song placement,” he says. My husband thinks I am nuts when it comes to the music and he has loved all the playlists he’s encountered, especially because some of the instructors are also DJs. Participation is expensive. Sometimes you just don’t vibe with an instructor. You earn a score according to your overall output number, which is a calculation of your cadence (rotations per minute of your feet on the pedals) combined with resistance (how much you crank up the red knob), showing how much energy your performance is generating. For live classes, you can’t view the song list beforehand, but you sacrifice this knowledge for the thrill of potentially getting your username shouted out by the instructor (or, at least, I do). I have taken 45-minute classes before and, honestly, they are a lot. As you might expect from that roll call of celebrities, none of this comes cheap: in the UK, the bike costs £1,990, and you'll need to buy some cycling shoes on top of that. Some would argue it’s a lifestyle—those people are just really good about using their exercise equipment and then telling everyone about it in the highly active 246,000+ member Part of that is because I have some serious neck, shoulder, and back issues that often prevent me from doing high-impact workouts (if you watch the documentary Cheer on Netflix, you can learn why! Only available to UK residents 18 or over. Now, in addition to riding the bike regularly (and running outside, which he was already doing before), he takes non-cycling classes on the app. But will the UK market buy into its vision of high-end at-home classes?Think of an at-home fitness class and you probably picture yourself doing lunges on your living room carpet in front of an 80s aerobics video or trying to copy yoga poses from an Instagram fitness guru. After all, there are only so many hours in the day, and right now, barre is my priority. Because my husband and I financed the bike, we pay a total of £91 each month—£52 for the bike plus £39 for the membership. I put on a pair of wireless headphones, clip the Peloton shoes into the pedals and choose an on-demand class. After taking my first few Peloton cycling classes, I realized that all the SoulCycle rides I thought were amazing workouts were really just fun dance parties on a bike in a room with a limited amount of air. Everyone has a few extra minutes in their days—why not use them to work out in the comfort of your own home, with no wasted time spent travelling to and from a studio? Later, he tells me that one of the keys to a good class is the playlist. As on a social media network, your account is branded with a username of your choosing, and other riders can follow you to see all of the classes you’ve taken, when you’ve taken them, and how you performed during them. With the Peloton All-Access Membership, you can stream every live and on-demand class across your devices for $39/month. Access every Peloton class free for 30 days - anytime, anywhere. To take classes and participate in the leaderboard, you will need to pay the £39 monthly fee for the Peloton subscription.