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  • Started 5 years ago by Greenroofer
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  1. Greenroofer
    Member

    YouTube, knowing my interest from the videos I watch, has been serving me ads for something called Peloton (here's the ad - those who know me in real life will appreciate quite how targeted the ad appears to be...). I'd heard of this from my brother, who is an investment banker in London (and who has installed a custom-made, air conditioned, wine cellar in his basement), and who says that lots of his friends are part of it.

    The deal is you buy a stationary bicycle from Peloton, and then ride it in your house while watching streamed videos of spin classes and taking part in online social interactions.

    So far, so good. Then I looked at the price of the bike and the £39/month subscription, and realised that it's probably aimed at investment bankers with wine cellars rather than the likes of me...

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  2. gembo
    Member

    Zwift for Zwankers?

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  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I get that when I watch Channel 4 online, presumably because of my bike porn habit, even if that is mostly videos of fork restorations and Danny Macaskill.

    When the algorithms offer me alcohol-free beer, membership of the Conservative and Unionist party and replica Paolozzi sculptures I will truly have triumphed.

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  4. gembo
    Member

    I love it when you get an advert for something you just bought. Like dude, I just bought it, I don't need to buy it again

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  5. unhurt
    Member

    videos of fork restorations

    You definitely know how to enjoy yourself.

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  6. Morningsider
    Member

    Mixed emotions on this - anyone that spends their cash on this really deserves to spend their evenings cycling on the spot next to their ironing board and hoover...but, it's not really much more expensive than a Sky Sports subscription (not a subscriber - I just checked) and millions of people pay for that...they seem to have got away with calling a solo workout "peleton"... chdot clearly missed a trick in not charging all of us for our "online social interactions"...

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  7. dessert rat
    Member

    each to their own I guess. I am always annoyed that Zwift miles count the same as real miles on Strava - which I suspect is what IWRATS is alluding to.

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  8. Arellcat
    Moderator

    You definitely know how to enjoy yourself.

    I've been watching videos of bench vice restorations. It was absolutely quite interesting.

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  9. gembo
    Member

    Zwift not real, strava not real. Moira who will chat to you in Apple Pie Bakery of Carnwath is real. She is there Saturday morning. Her children live in Manchester and Australia, before she retired the Carnwath Massive used to car share to work in Edinburgh. She has a mean technique on eating a strawberry tart. I vote Moira

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  10. wingpig
    Member

    I was shown an advert for Zwift the other day. From the look of it it's an almost logical progression from people having pretend races over the same bits of real road against other people at different times through Strava to having them have live pretend races in different physical places in the same virtual place at the same time. With a pretend ptetend racing costume rather than a real pretend one.

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  11. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Wilmington's Cow is a Zwift user, using it to good effect for training purposes.

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  12. steveo
    Member

    Yeah, if you must ride on a turbo trainer and some must then might as well make it more interesting than staring at a wall!

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  13. miak
    Member

    Having done a 24 hour charity spinathon this year ... i realised how much i hated indoor training .... but having just upgraded my old indoor trainer (which i seldom used) for a new one that apparently links to Zwift I am looking forward to having a go in smaller doses and improving my race times...as cycling border roads in the dark just seems like suicide these days :-(

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  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I've been watching videos of bench vice restorations.

    Oh man I watched that and then a mate passed me a link to it and I watched it again.

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  15. fimm
    Member

    If you ride indoors then you don't have to worry about drivers, wind, rain, drivers, ice, snow, route finding, drivers, pedestrians, dogs, or drivers. You can concentrate on hurting yourself as much as you want. If that floats your boat, then it is a good thing (must set our turbo up again...)

    I admit that you don't need an expensive Zwift or whatever, but I understand why people use it.

    Incidentally, I mostly get car adverts on Twitter. I don't think the targeted advertising is working very well in my case...

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  16. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I've been watching videos of bench vice restorations.

    I watched that video as well. Maybe we got that recommendation because we've all watched bike maintenence videos.

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  17. ARobComp
    Member

    In defence of Zwift. It serves a specific purpose. I get a lot from it (although my fancy trainer needs returning for a service :/ )

    I get a LOT of adverts for Peloton. It looks awful to me, althjough I can understand why someone might want to use it. For the most part spinning is not good for real cycling apart from the weight loss aspect. Most spin classes can cost north of £9 and gym membership with spin classes included probably about £50+ (I was a member at fitness first on totenham court road for 2 months for £100 a month at one point) so if this is going to be your exercise, they've perhaps not pitched it at an aweful price point.

    I torture myself by Zwifting in my garage, where I can see all my bikes hanging up, looking at me and screaming "WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME"

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  18. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    It depends on what you want to achieve. I would have loved using Zwift instead of a turbo when I was training for club TTs and races. A winter augmenting hours on the road with hours on the turbo doing high intensity intervals only to reach a level of fitness that allowed me to keep up eventually palled. Now I have rollers for the days when the weather is bad and I feel the need to try to match some of the commuting miles (don't call it training!) that other Audaxers do. More of a psychological boost than anything I expect.

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  19. Nelly
    Member

    Saw the Peleton shop in Covent Garden when in London a couple of days ago. It was empty on a very busy christmas shopping Sunday.

    There is a Brompton shop round the corner from it as well which a mate visited 2 weeks ago and said the staff were "up themselves" :-)

    Given the prime locations, I suspect both are targeting people with specific wallet dimensions.

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  20. HankChief
    Member

    So it looks like it needs to be that expensive to hire a shed load of lawyers to stop other people using the word "peloton"...

    I don't hold out much hope for them...

    https://twitter.com/gplama/status/1076244021029163008?s=19

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  21. HankChief
    Member

    Pick your favorite

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  22. unhurt
    Member

    I can't, they are all glorious. Yacht one may edge it though?

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  23. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I can spend time with my half gay husband while he reads Architectural Digest wearing combat boots

    You should have to say these exact words out loud in public before you can buy one of these things.

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  24. Frenchy
    Member

    An advert for these the other day knew my name and where I lived.

    Like, in the middle of the advert it said "[First name], from Edinburgh".

    Does this really increase sales?

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  25. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Channel 4 thinks my first name is Veronica so personalised adds there are dynamite.

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  26. wingpig
    Member

    @iwrats Those are actually messages from the real world, trying to reach you inside this simulation.

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  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @wingpig

    Which simulation? CCE or meatworld?

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  28. wingpig
    Member

    Convincing, isn't it? Don't forget your objective, Veronica. At least you remembered to avoid grey this time.

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  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    So is CCE just the private message function of the real world?

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  30. Arellcat
    Moderator

    CCE may be a simulation of a world that's better than the real one.

    There is a Brompton shop round the corner from it as well which a mate visited 2 weeks ago and said the staff were "up themselves"

    Brompton Junction*. I was there in November, and managed to get them to give my bike a once-over for free. Perhaps it was because it was getting on for closing time or that they took a fancy to a 12-speed Brompton with carbon cranks.

    * Not in Brompton, and not strictly on a junction either.

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