Chain Drive Spin Bikes

There’s a particular sound a chain driven indoor cycling bike makes — a low, mechanical hum with just a whisper of clatter under it — and if you grew up riding an actual bicycle, that sound does something to your brain that a silent belt never will. That’s the whole pitch, really. A chain driven … Read more

Here’s the thing nobody tells you at the big box store: not all spin bikes pedal the same. Step onto a belt-drive model and it glides along like butter on a hot pan — smooth, silent, almost too polite. Step onto a chain drive spin bike and you feel something different, a little grittier, a … Read more