John really is the epitome of the person who spends way too much on top-of-the-line equipment for their amateur hobby, expecting that it will turn them automatically into a professional. I guarantee that if you took a "garbage" $500 treadmill and gussied it up, John would not be able to tell the difference. I doubt most anyone could, but John's a liar as usual.
The terrible part is - Peloton isnt even top-of-the-line
it's sort of the Kurig (coffee pod machine) of the indoor bike trainers.
it's an Apple product (not knocking Apple, talking about market position) in terms of presentation as a sleek appliance with a "community" and identity to back it up
-- rail thin mid 30s lady opens the door to her apartment on the 500th floor with a panoramic view of Dubai, New York, LA, CGI city and puts down her Dolce&Gabanna attache' case sighing from a hard day of having to control a multinational corporation full of incompetent cishet men.
Her therapy?
she puts her luxuriously straight, flowing shoulder length hair into a high pony, dons some lulu lemon (without a chamois) and gets on her Peloton™ being only vaguely aware of what a peloton is.
As she glistens (but doesn't drip)with hard earned sweat, she participates in a montage featuring a light mocha female instructor with cool poofy 'fro hair and a darker black male instructor with buff shoulders urging her to "bring it" and that "she's got this". The montage ends, as our power-woman sits upright wiping sweat from her brow reveling that she "did it" (a different did it than 80s teen sex comedies a'la Porkies) and triumphantly looks out at her domain...the OLED bright city lights of the plebbies below her 8 million dollar view
the editor cuts the part where she then grabs a cold pinot gris and honks a couple of massive rails off her Venetian glass coffee table
Even Bri bri talked about being on "team blah blah trainer" like a 13 year old Twilight fan.
The old school workhorse was the cyclops (PT300 was the sweet spot)
the newer school stuff is wahoo,wattbike,tacx
(the wahoo kickr bike is seriously crazy - if it's a not-price-concious buyer...go there)
and use relatively standard protocols so you can use a variety of training/racing apps
or GASP -- a rear wheel replacement trainer
or worse....something that would strike fear into the heart of bri bri ....ROLLERS (that being said, rollers do train technique - the old saying is trainers for strength, rollers for technique -- BUT you can't slack much on rollers ---put someone on a track bike or powercranks on rollers and they won't be phoning it in)
Pelotons are for Beckys thatdrop their seapost to the basement, take resistance off and rock a saddle-bouncing overcadence thinking that's working.
