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What are the options when it comes to
group cycling products? Kate Cracknell
takes a look at an ever-growing market
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onfused about which group
cycling product to buy?
That’s hardly surprising: the
category has exploded in
recent years, with a raft of increasingly
differentiated new products launched
to the market offering a wide array of
features and functionalities. Where
once a few key players dominated,
now pretty much every supplier has a
presence. Here we round up, by theme,
some of the products in the category.
traditional group cycling
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Keiser’s M3 bike is well-known for
its aesthetics and quiet operation,
as well as its maintenance-free
design. But an additional bonus is
its computer console, which offers
information including power output
(displayed in watts and kcals),
heart rate information (the M3 is
Polar-compatible) and RPM. These
parameters can be set, making the
bike suitable for use on the gym fl oor
as well as in a studio environment,
offering operators a dual purpose bike.
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Pulse’s durable bike is designed to
cope with the daily rigour of multiple,
intense classes and is built with tough
yet stylish materials. Also included in
the package are accredited training for
instructors and marketing tools for
operators to promote their classes.
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Star Trac is the exclusive equipment
provider for the Spinning programme
developed by Mad Dogg Athletics;
the two companies jointly market and
distribute Spinning bikes, programming
and education worldwide. Star Trac
currently has fi ve Spinner bikes on the
market. Top of the range is the Spinner
NXT, with its heavy-duty all-aluminium
Make way The
frame. Other models include the
CYCLEwell adaptor
Spinner Elite and value model,
allows pregnant
the Spinner Velo, which is
women to use the
nonetheless designed with
Matrix Tomahawk bike
durability in mind.
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