Exercise bikes – an old favourite but still effective at burning calories

Exercise bikes are one of the most popular home gym fitness machines. They’re great for burning calories and you can cycle in doors while watching your favourite programs on television and avoiding having to go out cycling in poor weather. Exercise bikes generally come in two formats – upright exercise bikes like the Schwinn 140 Upright bike and recumbent exercise bikes like the Schwinn 230 recumbent bike. The upright bikes simply have the seat and pedals in a similar arrangement to a real bike, but the seat much higher and your legs pointing down. Recumbent exercise bikes have the seat and the pedals more or less on the same horizontal level. Personally I prefer the recumbent exercise bikes as I feel I can get more push using the back of the seat to help me generate a bigger force in my thighs.

In the table above, you can see the most popular exercise bikes that we have reviewed on this site. The ratings in the table are generated by our editor rating as well as the ratings of visitors who leave comments and ratings on the product review pages. If you want to contribute your own opinions on the exercise bike that you own, please feel free to leave a comment on that product review page where you are given the chance to give the bike a star rating as well as your own personal review.

You can see all of the bikes that we have reviewed on this site below.

Schwinn 460 Variable Stride Elliptical Trainer

Thinking about buying an elliptical trainer? Well then you need not look any further than the Schwinn 460 Variable Stride Elliptical Trainer. This thing is just absolutely amazing. Easy and comfortable to use and that is a big plus when trying to get into the habit of using a new machine. I don’t know about [...]

Schwinn 240 Recumbent Exercise Bike

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Being the avid exercise freak that I am, I just had to add an exercise bike to my in home gym. Shopping for one and finding the exact model that was right for me was another story completely. I never realized exactly how many different exercise bikes there are on the market. Add in the [...]

Schwinn 230 Recumbent Exercise Bike

Recently, I decided that it was time to up my exercise routines with more aerobic activities. It seems that every time I would visit my doctor, he would remind me that I need to be exercising more. “Go for long walks in the country – 3 times a week for an hour”, he’d say. Sure, [...]

Schwinn 220 Recumbent Exercise Bike

Exercise bikes are one of the most common machines that you will see in any home gym and rightfully so since they’ve been around the longest and can be the most compact and easy-to-use addition to a home workout. On the search for the right bike for my home gym, I did a lot of [...]

Schwinn 860 Treadmill Review

Treadmills can be a tricky buy if you don’t know anything about them. I was putting together a gym for my home and one of the obvious must haves for any home gym is a treadmill. After pondering the thousands of choices out there, I’ve narrowed it down and am pretty impressed with the Schwinn [...]