Best Exercise Bike for Zwift?
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Just to be clear, there are no $2k Kickr bikes. Wahoo had the Kickr v1 on sale for $3k, not for $2k. That’s $1k over the OP’s budget and without any of the stuff they’d need to run Zwift.
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The Stages bike was at one time on sale and would have been in OP's range.
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Over here in the UK the Kickr Bike is usually the most expensive of the Smart Bikes by a fair margin, although there are some good sale deals at the moment. As other alternatives, the Stages SB20 and Tacx Neo bikes are usually prettty good value when on sale. But could be a different story over the pond. Smart bikes are definitely an expensive option, but tick the ultimate convenience box.
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Ah that makes more sense. I thought it was a bit too good to be true!
Over here in the UK the Kickr Bike is usually the most expensive of the Smart Bikes by a fair margin, although there are some good sale deals at the moment. As other alternatives, the Stages SB20 and Tacx Neo bikes are usually prettty good value when on sale. But could be a different story over the pond. Smart bikes are definitely an expensive option, but tick the ultimate convenience box.
Over here in the UK the Kickr Bike is usually the most expensive of the Smart Bikes by a fair margin, although there are some good sale deals at the moment. As other alternatives, the Stages SB20 and Tacx Neo bikes are usually prettty good value when on sale. But could be a different story over the pond. Smart bikes are definitely an expensive option, but tick the ultimate convenience box.
Restating what I said in post #2, what the OP asked for doesn’t exist.
We can talk about alternatives, of course, but with the OP ghosting the thread, it’s anyone’s guess as to what the OP would find acceptable.
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Stages is on sale now at $2.5k, and as I noted upthread, the Tacx is as well. So both are already $500 over the OP’s budget without a Zwift solution.
Restating what I said in post #2, what the OP asked for doesn’t exist.
We can talk about alternatives, of course, but with the OP ghosting the thread, it’s anyone’s guess as to what the OP would find acceptable.
Restating what I said in post #2, what the OP asked for doesn’t exist.
We can talk about alternatives, of course, but with the OP ghosting the thread, it’s anyone’s guess as to what the OP would find acceptable.