Sep 11 2007Exercise Bike Lets You Race At Home
Made by German manufacturer Daum Electronics, the web enabled Ergo Bike Premium 8i (really rolls off the tongue doesn't it?) lets you race other bikers from around the world. It has a bunch of different virtual courses available, each based on a real place. You can chat with the other racers via VOIP, monitor their heart rates, and it even has a web cam in case anyone is biking topless. The unit costs $3,500. I would just challenge all the ladies online to a round of strip biking, then take the pedals off and attach a cordless drill and socket. It may sound like cheating, but there's no such thing as cheating when you haven't seen any boobies (except your own) in almost three years.
Exercise Bike Lets You Race At Home [uberreview]
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Reader Comments
1. clark - September 11, 2007 2:38 PM
nice. this will be way funner than pretending to race the person next to me at the gym.
2. z - September 11, 2007 2:38 PM
this seems useful
3. Mike L - September 11, 2007 3:49 PM
"it even has a web cam in case anyone is biking topless"
hahah so true to a web cam's true purpose...
4. nominus - September 12, 2007 12:43 AM
Eh. I'm not buying one of these.
5. Spartacus - September 12, 2007 3:07 AM
Ja, I wish to race against many Germans with oversized noustaches.
6. BobTheMul - September 12, 2007 7:36 AM
A webcam to watch women sweating and grunting away whilst exercising? Nah, I'll pass.... I have a perfectly good pair of binoculars and a good patch in the bushes just 20 yds away from the local fitness gym.
7. high5apparatus - September 12, 2007 9:49 AM
It's like Halo for roadies!
8. Thomas Bailey - December 9, 2007 8:26 PM
Is the Tour de France one of the courses? That would be something!
The URL is a GPS log of many notable bike rides I have been on. This bike is best in inclement weather. In anything approaching fair weather, the outdoor bike is best, as I have ridden several over the past 18 years.