Peloton vs NordicTrack S22i Studio Cycle

welcome to the treadmill review guru, today we compare the NordicTrack s22 eye to the

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bike. These are two of the most popular indoor exercise bikes on the market. Both come with subscription content that you can pay to access classes regularly while you write. at home, NordicTrack has the iFit app and the Peloton bike comes with the Peloton app. Both have a monthly subscription that ranges from $33 to $39 a month. Both have an attached 22-inch full-color touchscreen so you have really nice visibility. While you're looking at our classes, they both have magnetic resistance which is silent and they both have digital resistance levels, which is really nice when you're trying to get an accurate idea of ​​your resistance.

There are a few areas where they are different from the S 22i. I'll see back here, it has a motor in the rear stabilizer and a tilt front fork, so the bike will actually lean at a 20 percent grade and decelerate at a 10 percent grade. It is the only bike on the market that does this. The Peloton bike is sturdy but it doesn't incline or decline, it's just a standard spin bike so that's one area where they are a little different and when it comes to the functionality of the app there are a few differences: platoon has live classes and all their classes, all their content is pretty much class based, they have some scenic rides that you can do outdoors, but basically you are just following a drone landscape video, there is no program along with it , the iFit app has

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based classes and then they have a ton of outdoor routes that you can ride around the world Thailand Bangladesh Park City Utah right now they have the Tour of Utah there so you can type in different stages, lots of outdoor routes One really cool thing about the eye s22 is that the decrease in incline resistance is automated with the app, so while you're typing, if you start going up a hill, the bike it will tilt automatically and if the trainer says K, set your resistance to 12. level 12 in a class, it will set it automatically, you can override it at any time just by adjusting it manually, but the automation is really nice because you can type hands free, so that's something we really like about the s22 I the tilt. and reject app automation, both apps currently have a leaderboard so they have that feature that is really fun and they both have a community of users and subscribers that just interact and get to know each other so you can interact with people in a class. and then maybe out in a Facebook group or a group chat or something like that, so these bikes are very impressive and we're going to go into a lot of detail about the individual features of each one at the end of the day.

I have to favor the NordicTrack s22. It simply has more features and functionality. The innovation that is in the framework is truly impressive. The automation in the app really sets it apart, so anyway stay tuned and we'll dig deeper. review of both bikes, first of all, we will look at the total cost, so the gross cost of the

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bike is twenty to forty-five, that is two thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars. However, there is a subscription cost of $39 per month for the Peloton app. which includes all of your classes and all of your content, so the first year, you're on it two thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars, when those are current costs, these fluctuate a little bit, sometimes their special offers, you're looking at about twenty seven. one hundred dollars out the door for the peloton bike, by comparison the NordicTrack s 22i is $19.99 and then there's a two hundred and forty nine dollar setup fee, so it's a white glove setup, they'll deliver it, They will install it in your house, they will make sure everything works.

You have all the pieces and pieces, so it will work for you from twenty to forty-eight in the first year. Now NordicTrack also has a subscription app called I fit and when you buy the s22 I you get the The first year is free so there is no cost because I Fit the first year you can try it to get an idea if you like it or not, and there is no cost for that the first year, so out you are twenty-two forty-eight. for this one and about $2,700 for this one so you're looking at a five hundred dollar difference so right off the bat the peloton is going to cost you a little bit more so the first thing we're going to do is look at the build of both bikes and just make a side by side comparison, so let's start with the peloton bike.

I have a spinning instructor and I've been teaching spinning for years and years and I'm familiar with spin bikes and let me. To tell you that the peloton is a well designed bike, this is a solid bike, you can see it from the ground up, it has been designed to be very strong, it has stabilizers both front and rear, under the stabilizers, it will probably be difficult to see, but you have six leveling feet, three in place and all of them are adjustable, so if your floor and most of our floors are a little uneven in certain spots, you can adjust those levelers to make sure the bike doesn't it swings, it has three points of adjustment on the peloton bike you can raise the handlebars, you can also raise the seat using the seat adjuster right here and you can move the seat back and forth down here here you can also tilt the saddle up and down if necessary So, three adjustment points and one adjustment requiring a wrench or Allen wrench or screwdriver.

The pedal has a drive belt and a flywheel, so your drive belt, this is your pedal, this is your pedal arm and this is your pedal crank, right? here and it turns and along the top of the crank is a drive belt, the drive belt goes through and connects to the flywheel and as you pedal you move that flywheel on both bikes and we'll talk about the SH Y in a minute. They have a belt drive so they are nice and quiet and you will hear when I move these pedals, there is absolutely no noise, it is an extremely quiet bike, you have a nice perimeter weighted flywheel and it has improved inertia which means the flywheel will turn and as you pedal it will hold on to that inertia so you have a nice, fluid pedal stroke, so you'll notice that even when I push this, if I push it hard enough, it will spin for a minute, that's your inertia.

So, and that's important, it just gives you a nice smooth pedaling, so you have a nice fluid motion. Too quiet. You have magnetic resistance. Magnetic resistance is achieved by magnets adjacent to the flywheel that create polarity. resistance on that flywheel, so there are no contact points, there is no friction, you can ride silently, you can brake silently and you can increase or decrease your resistance silently, which is really good in indoor home equipment, so you have some really good components here in the peloton. Similarly on the s 22i you also have a weighted steering wheel, you have pedals, pedal arms, a nice crank, you have a belt drive which is nice and quiet, so you can see the steering wheel has just gained some momentum , turns nice and smooth, your pedals keep going. in a nice easy rotation and that helps avoid any shaking while driving.

You'll notice on the eye of the s22 that you have a front stabilizer here that runs under the front end of the bike and a rear stabilizer under the rear. This support beam that runs underneath the body of the bike provides a little extra support. This is a solid steel beam underneath. You also have four leveling feet here, two in the front and two in the back. The two in the back adjust, the two in the front don't, so you have really nice stability with the s22. And I really like this bar that runs underneath. I feel like it holds the entire bike frame securely on the ground.

Both are 22 inches. touch screen and peloton something revolutionary, the market they entered, they took a very well designed, solidly built spin bike and put a screen on the front, you can even see you have outside wiring right here, the wiring plugs in the back and holds. It goes on like this piece of tape and it comes here and clips underneath so you have a solid twist design, but then none of the wiring and it's integrated here into the s22. You have your screen and I will show you how. moves, you have cables back here, but this is all built into the frame of your bike, so you don't have any exterior wiring coming out here other than the plug on both that comes out the bottom, there's no exterior wiring, so That this bike was the NordicTrack s22.

I was built from the ground up to do very specific things and when they started building this bike they knew they were going to put a screen on the front so it was built in to make sure you didn't. have outside wiring if you have small children loose cables are sometimes a problem so the s22 I weighs one hundred and seventy five pounds the peloton bike weighs 135 pounds so the peloton bike is a little lighter However, the s22 will support 350 pounds. user capacity is a lot of weight, much more than even some of the treadmills we see, so 350 pounds is a really respectable weight on a spin bike, the peloton bike will only hold 305 pounds, so it doesn't have the same weight capacity.

The other reason the s22 i weighs a little more has to do with the overall design and functionality of the bike. The s22 I is the only bike on the market. NordicTrack is the only one that creates these bikes that have a real incline and gradient. So you have a motor back here on the rear stabilizer that will be raised using this rear arm on the back of the bike. You also have an arm under here that will lift the bike, so the s22 I'll go to a 20 percent lean at the rear. it will drop and the top will rise, it will also decrease by 10% where the rear will rise and the top will fall, which means you are no longer simulating assassinations, you are actually working hills, on top of that it also has magnetic. resistance, so even if you're working downhill, you can increase that resistance and still keep it pretty high.

Keep those muscles engaged while working downhill so that the motor adds just a little weight to the bike but totally improves. the overall functionality of what the bike can do once you're training the variables are very quick on the footprint this is how much space the bike takes up so the peloton is 53 inches tall to the top of this screen , it's 59 inches long and it's 23 inches wide, the eye of the s22 I'm going to rotate it so you can see 57 inches high to the top of the screen, 55 inches long and 22 inches wide, so It's quite comparable in terms of height, you have a little more. here in the eye of the s22, but the overall footprint is relatively compact on both bikes.

Now you'll notice the way we place the bikes. You can see that there are little inch markings here to tell you where you are when you raise and lower the saddle. The eye s22 has the same three adjustment points as the peloton bike using the release knob, you can raise and lower that seat using the undercarriage knob here under the seat post, you can move the seat back and forth back and using this knob here on the back of the handlebar stem, you can raise and lower the handlebar to get back to the three points of adjustment.

This seat can also be tilted up or down depending on the rider's comfort, to find the right fit both bikes have about the same. type of fit you can get the right feel, the warranty let's look at the warranties on the two bikes, so the peloton comes with a five year frame warranty and then a one year warranty on components, parts and labor, The NordicTrack comes with a 10-year frame warranty and two years on parts and one year on labor, so it's a slightly longer warranty, in fact it's double that on the NordicTrack frame. Now we will see the general functionality, how does each of them work?

These bikes work how they perform all the little components and features they have how do they make a difference? So we'll start here with s20 2a. Looking at it, one of the main features I love about this bike is the lean. decline peloton it's your standard spin bike it's solid and stable on the ground it doesn't tilt it doesn't decline it stays where it is I'm going to get on this one real quick and I'm going to show you how the incline and decline work right now my bike is set up only for level, it's just a bikestandard spinning right where I want it now if I want to take the front up.

I just have a couple different options. I have tilt and drop here at the top of my vertical grip on my handlebars. the resistance is on the right tilt and the camber is on the left, so I'll take it to a manual start. Now you will notice that while I am driving there is no noise, that is that magnetic resistance, it is so smooth, I have an easy and pleasant pedaling. there's no noise when you're just pedaling now I'm going to take slope one which is point five there's one if I hit it a couple of times that's ten that's a slope of ten okay so now I'm going to get on the Palatino bike and I want you to listen now the peloton bike has no training on board.

Was he doing a manual workout on the s 22i or did he just show me the track. I could adjust or increase or decrease the resistance and play with the incline here. I can increase the resistance and work hard, but I don't see anything on the screen, there is no manual tracking screen, so what I am going to do is lower the resistance and I will start this journey now that there are a few things that are different between the peloton bike and the NordicTrack bike. You'll notice that the peloton bike has a resistance knob, so I turn this knob.

There are no numbers on the knob or around the knob. The only reading I'm getting on the resistance is here. thescreen, so I turn the knob a little bit and it will increase the resistance. The difference between resistance levels is exactly how they are measured. Both use digital resistance. Both use silent magnetic resistance. The squad's stamina has a hundred levels, so basically. We're simply reducing those resistance levels a little smaller, so level 100 is about on par with level 24 on the s 22i and S 22 I. You can also increase or decrease by 0.5 with the platoon . There are no intermediate levels of resistance.

The knob is a little looser, it's easy to turn, but I never really know how much I'm going to get with each turn. I just turned it there and nothing happened, turn it there and I'm in a position to turn it there and m at 13, so the resistance knob is a little bit harder to find those very specific little increments, so I'm going to turn it down again. You can hear that this bike is absolutely silent just like the S 22. They are both really silent so that's how you manipulate the resistance on both bikes manually now I'll show you something on the S 22 I that the peloton bike won't do if You are familiar with the platoon, you know that the trainers on the screen give you props and orders and They will say: "Okay, we are going to go to level 10, so you increase to a level 10, you speed up the pace, the difference is that if you are using the S 22 I and you go into knife training where you have a class." or a trainer, the bike will automatically incline or slow down for you.

I do not have to do anything. I just ride and the bike will follow the instructions of the trainer in the class to do what he or she says or will do. I follow the natural terrain found on the satellite of that ride, so whether you're working out in class or riding outside on a trail, the automated incline or descent is a huge benefit to the s22 I, so I'm just going to choose an outdoor workout, okay, so you can see as I ride, my resistance has increased to ten and my incline has increased to three.

I do not have to do anything. I can only focus on form and breathing. I continue what I have done. I have a trainer on a bike in front of me, so I'm just trying to do what he's doing and I don't have to worry about fiddling with the controls all the time, so I'll show you the pedals on both bikes. the eye s22 has a standard bike pedal so you have a little bit of texture here, it will hold your shoe tight, you have an extension on top of the pedal so you can actually put your toe in there and then comes this cage. down to hold your shoe securely so you can ride this bike with any sports shoes and these pedals.

The good thing about the eye s22 is that these pedals have a standard fit so you can change them, you can put on SPD pedals if you want, you can put on Delta look pedals, whatever shoe or footwear you like to wear, you can fit these pedals. The peloton bike comes with these, our Delta look pedals, so they really just work. There is no flat side I was riding with a tough guy. shoe, but they actually only work with a bike shoe which then has a Delta looking cleat attached to it, so Peloton sells a package that comes with the bike, it's extra and it includes your shoes and your cleats, it includes the weights and it includes a heart.

Wrap the heart rate strap so that the cleats are the pedals. It comes on the bike, but you will need specific shoes to be able to ride the peloton bike. The other thing we want to analyze is your training on board, so on the peloton bike. you can get on and you can increase the resistance and you can ride and it will increase that resistance as you ride, but there is no display on the screen, there are essentially no onboard workouts on the s22. It says there are about 50 workouts on board that I did today. I logged out of Eyghon and went to the workouts they have in their library and I was able to find about 65, many of them are Google Maps outdoor workouts so you have more options when it comes to onboard workouts if you don't want to. pay the subscription with the NordicTrack bike, then you do it with the peloton bike.

Both bikes come with weights. You have to buy the weights in that extra package with the peloton bike. They both come with three pound weights here. the NordicTrack and they sit here in the front. Another thing I love about the s22 eye is that the screen will rotate, so if you're exercising off the bike you don't have to stay back here in front of the bike. In order to see the screen, you can stand to the side and the screen will rotate so you can see it wherever you need to be. The screen on the Peloton bike rotates smoothly up and down so you can adjust it to be in your line of sight, but it doesn't rotate from side to side, so if you're doing a workout off the bike, you need to stand up where you can see the bike and not hit these stabilizers on the back, like if you take a quick look and compare the applications to each other. the NordicTrack s22 eye and the peloton bike, so NordicTrack runs the iFit app, peloton of course runs the peloton app.

There are some really cool things we love at iFit. As you can see, you have automated incline, descent, and resistance. optimized between the app and the bike, so if I'm on the bike and following my trainer on an outdoor route, the resistance and incline will automatically adjust based on the difficulty of the terrain, how steep the incline is, and iFit he's got these great outdoor workouts, his rides are live, they're filmed with a trainer he's writing in front of you, you can see this person riding the bike right behind the videography, it's really sharp and engaging and it really feels like If you were there because the bike just automatically inclines and declines, the trainer will tell you to slow down and focus on strength work on this hill.

There are walks all over the world that you can do on mountain roads and they'll just give you updates on geography or local cultural architecture, things like That, I personally love outdoor routes. You also have class-based options at I Fit. You have your leaderboard here on the side and just like the peloton, you can enjoy the leaderboard. You can slide it to the side if you don't want to. you have left tilt resistance to right and your metrics are here at the top and if I want to get rid of that. Oh yeah, I want to get rid of that metric bar.

I can touch that full screen so you can see the functionality of I sit here. You have a fan right under the screen with different settings low, medium, high and automated, so it will depend on how hard you are working. The fan under the screen is huge. Benefit from the fact that your weights are here for easy reach and have manual adjustments. If you want to override automation in the app at any time, all you have to do is adjust based on what works for you. You'll get this little trainer follow icon. in the corner and then if I want to go back and set the automation again, I just bring it back and it comes back on and it's automated on the bike so this gives you an idea of ​​some of those outdoor routes that I just wanted you to see how sharp it is how fun it is to advance in the peloton.

It is based on classes. It's kind of a spin class

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workout, but it's really interesting for the peloton. The coaches are very fun. I mean, they really are. They have created a community. where people want to ride together, they want to be together, they love live classes and then you have a whole database of on-demand classes that you can see right here, this is Cody Rigsby, he's one of my personal favorites, he's just a shout. fifty five hundred people who have taken this ride, so you have a great community of peloton riders here, you have other people who ride with you and you can high five them for different things right here, I can give each of these people, high five those five if I want more information about the music that is playing, that particular song will appear once again.

You have your leaderboard here on the right. I can slide it out if I don't want it or You can press a specific writer and then your metrics are here at the bottom, so your resistance knob, all the resistance is manually adjusted on the peloton bike, there's no tilt or descent and you have to control your resistance, so that's something I prefer automation. in the s22 you just get more out of it, you can ride hands free, it really feels like you're there, the classes are fun and I really enjoy the peloton class experience, so it depends on what you are.

The only good thing we like about the platoon screen is that you can stream if you have a smart TV, you can stream it directly to your TV. There is an HDMI output port on the NordicTrack so you can connect it to your display via cable on this one if you want and then one thing to note with both bikes is that the speakers are on the back of the display so It's kind of funny the way their designs are like that, so keep in mind if we're going to place your bike facing a room, maybe you're one of those who place the bike in the corner of the room with the screen face to your sound that will be projected in the room, so just one thing to keep in mind with the platoon. app you can connect Bluetooth to wireless headphones with the iFit app currently you need a small transmitter that you simply connect to the screen and then you can connect Bluetooth wirelessly to your personal headphones so the comfort of both bikes is really nice the handlebars in the Peloton Me love this extra Aero bar here gives you more forearm support.

If you want to lean forward, you don't have as much distance, there's only 12 inches between this front horizontal bar and the back of the screen, as you can see. These vertical grips are angled just a little, so they prevent movement of the screen. You can only go so far, but overall the comfort is really nice and you have a sort of spongy grip there. here the handlebar is lower so you have more navigability with your screen, it will go all the way up, it will go all the way down and you can turn it so I decide and you have a little more control here. both on the screen and the resistance and tilt on the handlebars, so there's kind of a quick overview of the functionality of your cockpit, the app, how it works together on each of those bikes, there you have it, it's A fairly in-depth review of both. bikes both are good bikes they feel good they are fun to ride they have great functionality our pick is the NordicTrack s22 I only with the automated tilt and lowering it has some really cool innovative features that make cycling enjoyable you really feel like you are outside and it's all integrated and the innovation in the frame is really impressive, which is why our pick is the NordicTrack s22.

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