FitDesk Standing Exercise Bike Desk 3.0, Adjustable Height Indoor Cycling Trainer with Laptop Tray, Portable Stationary Fitness Desk for Home Office, Foldable Exercise Workstation, Supports 300 lbs

I started out looking at under desk pedal exercisers. But I wasn't convinced I'd use it, I wasn't sure I'd have under desk clearance, and I was concerned about noise. Then I found this and I thought, hey, why not. Well, I love it. I strapped my laptop onto the desk and I ride whenever I use the laptop. A couple of hours a day. Set up was easy. A nice touch is that you don't get a bag of bolts and screws. Everything is loosely attached where it is supposed to go, (like, three bolts with locking washers are screwed into the seat; you unscrew them, put the seat in place, and then screw them back in). So, you don't have to fish around for hardware. Everything is solid and heavy duty - holes lined up and everything fit together solidly. Wiring is all done; just plug the monitor in. Resistance control is already fully installed. It took a little over an hour to assemble, and I took my time. Couple of things. I'm pretty duck-footed, so my heels usually hit the crank on exercise bikes. On this the cranks angle out enough that I have good clearance. I can even use the pedal clips instead of putting my feet way out on the outer edges of the pedals. That wrist rest thing? I thought it was a joke, but it's essential. You rest your forearms on it to type or to do anything on the desktop. Without it you'd have to hold your hands and arms up in the air and that would get old quickly. The stretchy resistance thing I could take or leave, but I do fool with it when I just sit and read my Kindle. Seat is fine. I might pick up a cover some time, but it's not essential. I use a mouse for my laptop and there's no room on the desktop for that, so I'm using the touchpad, which is O.K. You could rig up an extension if it really matters. The machine is totally quiet. No sound from the bike at all and no vibration into the floor. The desk top slides forward and back, so you can adjust to get just the right reading distance for your laptop screen. I could go on, but the bottom line is that I'm delighted by this. It's solid; it works; it's good value. (I burned off 125 calories typing this review. Before, I would have done it on the couch. Sweet.) (FitDesk gives away a free bike to a school for every ten Amazon reviews that are posted. So, while I would have done a review anyway, I guess I should just note that non-monetary incentive for reviewers.) December 31, 2015 update. So, after 2,500 miles I started to get a clicking/grinding from the wheel housing that said "bad bearings" to me. I looked through Amazon comments and saw that this was a fairly common complaint about bikes bought around when I bought mine. Most people said the problem was promptly addressed. Not expecting much I went to the FitDesk website, found support, and sent a brief email asking if they'd stand by the bike. Get this. Email sent 12/28 at 3:30pm. Acknowledgment received at 4:10. Offer to replace entire main frame assembly at no cost and request for shipping address received at 5:01. On 12/31 entirely new frame delivered to my door. Twenty minutes later I'm on my new, reengineered, whisper smooth bike. Incredible. I love these guys.

Ok, two things you need to know about this product: 1) Its awesome. 2) Its awesome. I work from home part of the week and I noticed on those days I was moving significantly less than the days I go into the office and run from meeting to meeting. During the summer that was ok because after I logged off I could go for a run along the lake. However, living in the Midwest, winter comes in and ruins that whole idea with its polar chill. Now, in my previous apartment buildings there has always been a gym so I never needed to leave the building in the winter to still get in a workout. As winter approached this year though, I knew I had to figure something out or my “big boy jeans” would soon become my skinny jeans. Options: A) Join a gym. B) Find another solution. Let’s be honest, gym memberships are expensive and often begin to collect dust after a few months (I'm being generous here). No one wants to bundle up, trudge through the cold to the gym, get all sweaty, and then bundle back up to go back out into the arctic winter wonderland. On top of that, I'm not really a weight lifting person so I'd be spending around $90/mo just to use one to two piece of equipment and maybe take a class or two every once in a while. Somehow, that doesn’t seem worth it to me. Once I decided to find another solution, I took to the web and settled on finding something I could do in my home. My requirements were: it had to be relatively inexpensive, have a small footprint, and be something I would want to do over and over again. I considered getting an elliptical but they are far too large and usually on the pricey side. A treadmill seemed to have similar flaws though they do make ones that fold up. But I still wasn’t onboard with any of these options yet. Enter the FitDesk 2.0. As I’ve said, I work from home part of the week so being able to combine work and working out, is amazing from an efficiency perspective. Add to that the small foot print of this machine and the great price of it in relation to other similar ones (such as a treadmill desk) and I was sold. Putting it together was relatively easy considering I did it by myself with two curious cats trying to steal the directions every five minutes. The overall structure is very sturdy. I had one small issue with it out of box which was that the monitor was set to km when I really wanted mi. I emailed the company though and they sent me a replacement monitor set to mi at no charge within a matter of days. I cannot tell you how much that made me like the machine/company more. We’ve all had those situations where you send off an email and months later, if you are lucky, they respond and tell you to send the part in before they do anything about it. This means you are paying for shipping and losing time with the product if the part was crucial. I’ve been riding it a couple of times a week for the last couple of months and love it. I ride while I participate in conference calls, work on documents, watch tv, and even while I play games! The only thing I’m marginally peeved by is the comfort of the seat. However, that may be because I’m on it for two or more hours at a time… Overall, this is a solid product from a good company that does exactly what it says it does. Very happy with it and will definitely keep my eye on this company for future products.

Well, I hope to add some value to the universe with this review, but I apologize in advance for being unoriginal. Much of what I have to say is the same as what I read before I purchased. THE GOOD: It's a good idea, and the geometry of the bike is nice for working, playing video games, or watching TV while biking. I like the high quality (apparently silicone) non-slip surface of the work area. I think the ridge at the bottom of the desk is just the right height to hold a laptop in place and not get in the way of my wrists. Although the rolling wrist massagers may strike one as gimmicky at first, I do actually use them and find them comfortable to use for forearm support. I have very sensitive skin when it comes to foams, glues, rubber, and plastics, and these rollers are nonallergenic for me. I'm not so sure about the open cell foam in between them. I'm avoiding touching it. The motor is nice and quiet. Perfect for nighttime or TV use. THE BAD: If you buy from Amazon Warehouse Deals, don't expect any love from the manufacturer. I needed a new desktop after mine arrived broken, and was charged for the part. Thankfully, Amazon's customer service stepped in and compensated me for that expense due the damage in shipment. It offgasses poison. It's got a disgusting and literally sickening stench coming out of the box. From what I can determine, the two pieces most responsible are also the most dispensable -- the rubber foot straps and the resistance band arm exerciser with foam handles. I threw those away. The seat hurts like crazy if you're not already butt-damaged from regular biking. For me, it was a necessity to order the seat adapter part to try various real bike seats. It hasn't arrived yet. My plan is to try a noseless saddle which supports the sitting bones and allows side to side motion while pedaling. In the mean time, I use the bike for limited periods of time with a YogaRat brand oval knee cushion placed over the front seat edge. I also feel the painful results for the rest of the day, even lying in bed. The back rest has an adjustable angle feature which is very nice, but it's mounted on a weakly welded bracket which is deforming under pressure. When it breaks off, it won't function as a back rest, and I'll have to drill the supports and bolt another piece of metal on to hold that little adjustment bolt. MIXED: The seat adapter part available for purchase separately adds much height to the geometry, so that it's not great for shorter women. When I spoke to customer service about this problem, they offered to cut the piece down before shipping it out for no addition charge. This was very kind! It would make more sense to design it to be as short as possible to still reliably function as an adapter to a regular bike seat. After all, the bike ships with an extender, and so a very, very tall person would not be in trouble with the bike adapter stacked on the extender piece, with the bike seat tube extended out to the max, even if the bike adapter piece were shorter than it currently is without any mods. All in all, I'm satisfied with my purchase. I have already recommended it to friends and family. I'm using it daily and I encourage that in myself by strapping my laptop onto the desk so that I must mount the bike to access it. I'm not always spinning, but more than 15 miles a day isn't unusual for me at this point. That's pretty neat! Even if you're not aiming for a sweaty workout, or for any particular daily goals, it's fine to consider the bike an antidote to the sitting-kills problem. If you're in a healthy, comfortable saddle, and you're occasionally moving your legs around, then you're already going to be better off.

There are a lot of great reviews for the FitDesk, so I didn’t want to be redundant adding another one…but it is such a great product, terrific design, and support is so outstanding that I feel compelled to weigh in. I’ve owned the FitDesk 2 for over a year now. Having completed 5 Ironman triathlons in recent years, I’ve put in literally thousands of cycling miles in training…so perhaps a unique perspective on the FitDesk. The reason for this review is a recent outstanding service example. The computer that came with the FitDesk finally packed it in…stopped working. Since it’s over 1 year old, I figured the computer thing was out of warranty so I contacted FitDesk to see what a replacement would cost. Big surprise…they just sent me a new one…free. As it turns out the new one has better buttons than the old one, and works like a charm. So as to the FitDesk itself. I’m 5’ 8”…my wife 5’ 4”, and my son 6’ 2” (yeah the postman is tall, but that's another story), and we all fit with the seat extension installed. I fit it without the extension, but added it to get the seating a bit more upright. The seat position is like a beach cruiser geometry with the pedals forward of the seat which I presume makes it more universally comfortable…as opposed to what I’m used to with road/tri bikes where you are sitting more upright over the pedals. I typically ride it at a setting 6, which I find an easy spinning pace at 90 RPM, easy enough for a conversation and working on my laptop. An hour with the new computer has been displaying around 22-24 MPH, and 500’ish calories burned, which seems about right. There are 2 harder settings, 7 and 8, and I’ll tell you that if you want a workout at higher intensity those will give it to you. No matter the settings, the bike and desk are solid. I have it sitting on a concrete floor with a short pile carpet on top. Solid. I have a 17” laptop that almost consumes the top of the desk, but still leaves just enough room for my phone to lay beside it...and a very handy drawer for other 'stuff'. I find the seat to be very comfortable…I’m more used to a hard, racing saddle, but I can easily ride the FitDesk for 90 minutes without even noticing the seat. My wife rolls along at a more leisurely pace and finds the seat very comfortable while watching a show up to an hour long. Not to be taken lightly, the FitDesk is invisibly quiet. Talking on the phone, watching a show, noise is a total non-factor. The FitDesk is addictive. I originally bought it to tide me over during an injury that kept me off the road bike for a few months. Now over a year later, it’s become part of my weekly workouts…just so darn efficient to be able to multi-task while spinning off the calories and miles. An absolute winner of a design with astonishing service and support.

After building a standing desk to balance out the 8-10 hours I spend working in front of a computer, I found myself wanting to do more than just stand. I considered getting a walking treadmill but price and size were discouraging. I also didn't like the idea of raising my desk too high to compensate for the height of a treadmill. I figured it would take an extra 4" of desk height to make this usable with a treadmill. I also didn't want to give up too much floor space and struggle with moving a large treadmill around the office. One day I was notified of an Amazon Gold box deal and discovered this exercise bike. For the money, I decided to give it a shot. I had actually considered getting a trainer stand for my actual mountain bike to try and use it at my desk. But again the amount of space it would take up, along with the question of whether the handlebars would be in the way, prevented me from trying that route. Assembly was very easy, with many of the bolts already in place, making finding the pieces much easier. It took me about a half hour to put everything together. I started by using the fully assembled bike in front of my desk, using the desktop as a surface for my keyboard and trackpad (a mouse didn't work too well without an additional mouse pad due to the rubberized top). The desktop area is optimized more for holding laptop anyway. With the keyboard and trackpad I found that I was actually able to work while cycling. But since I had to place the bike about a couple of feet in front of the desk, it made using my multi monitor setup challenging. I pedaled about 12 miles that first day though and broke out a respectable sweat. The next day I found that by removing the desktop part of the bike, it allowed me to position the bike underneath my standing desk. I just had to mount the bike's display onto the frame. This way I was able to leave everything on the desk and work just as I would while standing. What's also nice is that when I step off the bike, I can even remain standing just over the seat and work in standing mode. Throughout the day I could easily switch from standing to cycling to mix things up. I pedaled another 12 miles that second day. So far, the bike is working out well for my plan of squeezing in two kinds of work during my computer time. My only quibble at this point is that the seat seems to be cushy but actually isn't comfortable for a full day, which makes it good that I can go from standing to sitting on the seat easily enough. I'll try a gel seat like I use on my real bike to see if it helps. In the meantime I'm adding some additional cushion in the form of a folded towel. Riding the bike is a bit different than a traditional bike. You're not positioned over the pedals but you're also not quite in a recumbant position either. It takes some getting used to but I've found so far that it does place a good amount of emphasis on your leg muscles so that you can get a good workout even when pedaling lightly. The foot straps and back rest help out nicely too for this kind of pedaling. I really like that it folds compactly and is relatively light and easy enough to move completely out of the way if necessary. When folded, it takes up only about a couple of square feet. It's also nice to keep track of time, distance, speed and calories while using the bike. I manually log the data into my smartphone tracker but it would be a nice touch to have a way to automate the collection of this data (hint for FitDesk). Since the pairing of this bike with a standing desk worked out well for me, it will be interesting to see if FitDesk releases a standing desk version of the bike, without the desktop. In all I'm glad I got it and look forward to logging some serious miles as a ride towards better health for my work days. I've been averaging about 10 miles per day in the first week that I've had the bike. Oh and by the way, I wrote this review while pedaling on my FitDesk.

So I got the bike back on June 27, 2014. I was waiting an exercise bike for our apartment so I could watch TV and workout. Putting the bike together was easy and I was up and going in no time. My work out routine was about 45min on the bike 5days a week. After two month the first issue started, every time I change the speed the belt started to slip. This was really annoying it killed my rhythm every time. I learned to live with it, I stopped changing the tension on the bike and would only go one speed. After 6month of using the bike the belt snapped. I contacted customer service and told them I only had the bike for 6months. They told me that was not normal for the belt to only last that long. They sent me out a new bike frame within the week and I was up and running again. Until.... The belt started slipping again after 9month!!! When I would start up the belt would slip a little. It did not bug me too much, but it was noticeable. The issue only got worse and worse. I emailed customer service about the issue and they showed me how to tighten the belt. Just have to take the whole bike apart. it did not look hard. One thing they did not tell me is that I needed a bike crank arm puller. $10 later I was able to start taking the bike apart. You have to take both arms off the frame, then all the screws on the body, loosen all the bolts, use a wrench to add tension to the belt. Test to see if it's okay, and then put it back together. It worked just fine for about 2weeks, then I had to take the bike apart again, tighten the belt, put back together. 2 weeks later the belt broke again. • At this point I have had the bike for about a year and a half and have gone though two belts. This is a lie -> “Durable: Built to Last with high quality gear box components for years of reliable operation” I contacted customer service and they where going to ship me a belt as soon as they had some. They told me a few weeks... 4weeks later.. Nothing. At this point I was frustrated, I spent over $250 for a bike that only works for 6-9months before needing a new belt. At this point I was done with fitDesk and it ended up in scrap metal. Why get this bike? *It's super compact. *It has a desk *Customer service always was willing to help. Why would to not get this bike? *Rubber belt that will stretch over time. *Any repair on the bike involves taking the whole thing apart.

So far so good. I will say this is an initial review so I will mostly cover set-up and first impressions since I've only ridden the bike once so far. Will do a follow up review later to better rate how it holds up. Other reviewers have said two hours to assemble, and I found this to be extremely accurate for one person. If the bike will go up or down stairs, recommend opening the box near the door and taking the individual pieces one at a time. The design was smart for an assemble yourself device, as they put most of the mounting bolts in the places they go to make things easier. All the tools you need are included in the box, but I highly recommend bringing your own socket wrench with a 13mm socket for the seat mounts at minimum. This will make things a whole lot easier for you. I used the included tools for everything else which worked fine. I did use the seat extender because I'm 5'11", but it was a tough call for me since my wife is 5'8" and it is recommended for folks that are 5'9" and taller. But with my socket wrench it will be easy to remove if she can't reach the pedals. The seat is not particularly easy to adjust up and down, but I sprayed a little WD-40 on the metal and it made it slightly better. It's sturdy once you have it at the level you want it. The seat back folds forward, and has a lock bolt to prevent it from moving backwards, or to adjust to your level of comfort. I took out the lock bold and used one of the extra adjustment knobs which fits in that hole too and seems more natural to use, and I put the nut from the lock bolt on it to secure it. Not in the instructions, but it works better for me that way. The massage bar is useful to me for added stability too. You can hold onto that instead of the desk, or use it for added stability for your forearms when using your laptop or tablet. I threaded the securing band through the top upper hole and only use that for a laptop since I have a pillow style holder that sits nicely on the desk for my tablet. Typing is pretty seamless on the lower resistance levels, although I expect to be watching Netflix movies most of the time so I have a better handle on my riding time without paying any more attention to it than length of whatever show I choose to zone out to. I did connect the meter and it seems to work fine, but so far I don't pay any attention to the calorie counter or other readings. I had thought about ordering a rubber mat to go under it because of our squeaky hardwood floors, but the seats on the bottom sit quietly and the machine doesn't make much noise. I would recommend having a towel handy though as this does offer a real cardio workout and you will perspire unlike the guy in the picture Amazon has here. My last comment relates to the value. I pondered over the $6499 Expresso bike available here on Amazon long and hard because it seems to be the latest in VR bicycle technology before choosing this machine. The high tech gadget lover in me drooled over that at first glance. In the end analysis I just couldn't justify paying that kind of money and then possibly finding out I couldn't dedicate the required willpower to get on it regularly. For less than 5% of that cost I really think I will use this one, and won't have to worry about signing up for an expensive membership once the free trial expires on that other choice. This machine makes a whole lot more sense to me in the long run. I absolutely think it is worth the cost- so far. Once I get into better shape with it, I'll add more to this review- and hope this is helpful to you for now.

Ohhh where do I even start. This is what happens when American businesses go to lengths, Chinese lengths, to cut costs. Not only do they cut costs but they also greatly sacrifice build quality and overall quality thus leaving us with a product which makes us realize yet again that you get what you pay for. I bought this thing based on the glowing reviews and the fact that it was on a $100 discount. I am really not sure what people were smoking who gave this 5 stars. Any way, I was like OK I lead a sedentary lifestyle working on my laptop all day long aching to get out and workout each day. So nothing better than getting a product that can help me be active while answering emails and being on conference calls. That is where the fairy tell ends. The product is great in concept but TERRIBLE in execution!! The instructions that this thing comes with are downright demented and brainless. I have built a countless amount of Ikea and other furniture dealing with tons of written instructions over many years but this item takes the cake in hands down the worst written instructions known to human kind. I have a feeling that they asked their Chinese counterparts to also put together the manual/instructions booklet. Because clearly if someone had half a turd's worth of braincells inside their skulls, they would never write an instructions booklet so badly. WOW!! I still cannot get over how aggravating the instructions were and how terrible my last three hours were in trying to build this thing which otherwise comes pretty much pre-built. Yes this dang thing comes about 70% assembled but that 30% makes you want to jump off the bridge. Trust me on that. And the instructions are just the start. Then comes the skull crushingly, teeth grindingly infuriating part of their nuts and bolts and the horrible wrench that they provide. So every bolt that requires a nut being tightened on it, the nut happens to somehow freeze half way down. And the areas where these nuts and bolts are to be tightened are in the WORST, most unreachable spots in the assembly. For example,tThe way things are positioned under the saddle or are so insane that getting a nut tightened becomes the most suicidal tendency inducing exercise that you have experienced every before. Picture this, there is this bolt sticking out and you start tightening the nut with your fingers because the piece of sheet wrench they provided won't fit into that space. Yes the dang thing just won't fit. So you try to tighten the nut with your fingers but half way down the thing freezes…HALF WAY DOWN. So your only option is to use this god awful wrench to tighten the thing further. And guess what that does, the wrench is so big for the space that it starts to tear the underside of the saddle because some chimpanzee excuse of an "engineer" in this company did not plan properly as to where would be the best locations or the right sized tools to deal with this monstrosity. Last but definitely not the least, you have CHEAP…..CHEAP build materials!!! OMG I cannot even begin to describe how cheap the laptop holder and the tightening knobs and all those things are. It is disappointing at the very least and downright disgusting to see how the company cut corners with the cheap build materials used for the laptop desk and for the massaging handles. The laptop desk, the handles feel flimsy, cheap and just bad. For the price I paid for this POS I feel short changed with what I got. This is terrible and I just cannot get over it!! The worst part is that I have now somehow not killed myself and got this assembled. I really want to return this AeroFlot dinosaur but I cannot because I would surely kill myself if I had to disassemble the crappy thing using the tools that came with it. At the end of it all if you are someone with ungodly levels of patience who does not get aggravated with bad tools or stupid instructions and who is not bothered by cheap materials and who just wants to have a contraption that can help you get your heart rate up and calories burnt then this is the thing for you. But if you care about simple things such as good build quality and meaningful instructions and the fact that the aggravation you experience while assembling this thing might make you want to shoot yourself, in that case do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy this!!! UPDATE: Having this cheap, cheap contraption taking up space in my home office I also realize that the material used for the laptop table is so nasty that it emanates this chemically rubbery synthetic smell which is downright obnoxious. Ever since I have had this FitDesk close to me for a day, the smell of that table has started to make me sick. It is causing me to have a runny nose and I am coughing every few minutes. I have no idea if these guys did any quality control to check that the material used is not toxic. By the way it is making me feel I do not think these guys did any due diligence in determining that the materials are not toxic. Please keep this in mind too before you make the mistake of ordering this item.

かれこれ半年ぐらい使っているがへたることはない。 机部分にノートパソコンを置いていたが振動で画面がゆれるので そこで作業をするというよりも遠くのテレビなどをみながら 何かぼんやり机で作業する……という用法の方がよいのかもしれない。

Jusqu'a présent c'est un bon produit. Quelque commentaires: Il me semble un peu cavalier de vendre en Europe un produit ou les indications sont données seulement en miles et pas en unités métriques. Le compteur n'est pas d'une fiabilité et d'une régularité exemplaire Il faut bien relever le pied pour passer au delà du cadre de l'appareil quand on monte ou descend

I bought this product a year ago hoping it would encourage me to get more exercise. Over the last 12 months, I've cycled 686 miles, the distance between John O'Groats and London, and have definitely seen an increase in personal fitness. I cycle while working from home, while watching Netflix, and while listening to podcasts. In the past, I used to get discouraged from exercising by the bad weather outside, but this bike has meant that I've been able to continue to exercise even when it's pouring outside. I find the seat really comfortable (unlike the pointy and hard seats of some other exercise bikes) and the desk portion allows me to use a laptop at the same time, which reduces the tedium of cycling. Despite a year's heavy use, it's still going strong. If you're looking for a reasonably priced but reliable exercise bike, look no further.

Rien à dire, pour l'instant on verra à l'usage.

Impossible to assemble and doesn't have enough resistance. I get 100bpm max heart rate on this. Can't even hit zone 2. Buy a normal excercise bike.