Peloton as Zwift Trainer
Years ago, I used to have my road bike connected to my wahoo kickr snap.
I had that set up in our previous home, but it wasn’t that practical for me to maintain after we had kids and I wanted something that could be adjustable for our whole family.
Over the pandemic, we got a Peloton like everyone else. I remember the subscription price at the time being reasonable, but they ended up rug pulling their pricing over time probably because many pandemic spinners left the platform. So I didn’t want to pay those subscription prices anymore, and I ended up modding my Peloton bike with a SmartSpin2K.
I effectively used the SmartSpin2K to act as the cadence and power meter and control the resistance knob on the bike. So it behaves much like my wahoo kickr snap used to.
I also added a VESA bracket to the bike since the original Peloton Bike just uses a 100mm VESA mount, and made it so that I can keep the original tablet installed but swivel to a 21” computer monitor with an Apple TV hooked up.
Its been nice because I don’t have to maintain the bike for this setup, and the bike is adjustable for everyone in the household without needing to have multiple bike configs, and with the monitor installed onto the bike itself its nice to not have to deal with a separate tv/laptop/tablet/phone/etc.
I know its not necessarily in the spirit of indoor conditioning on real outdoor bike simulation setup, but it helped me get back into cycling again which was nice, and it gave me a way to repurpose the Peloton bike.
I can also continue to use the Peloton service if we end up wanting it again at a much reduced rate since it’s available on Apple TV as well.