FitDesk Bike Desk 3.0 – Adjustable Height Standing Desk Exercise Bike, Built-in Tablet Holder, Lightweight Stationary Laptop Table for Home Office, Supports Up to 300 lbs, Ideal for Home Workouts

I’m On It Now; (See Important December Update, Below)
I started out looking at under desk pedal exercisers. But I wasn’t convinced I’d use it, I wasn’t sure I’d have under desk clearance, and I was concerned about noise. Then I found this and I thought, hey, why not. Well, I love it. I strapped my laptop onto the desk and I ride whenever I use the laptop. A couple of hours a day.Set up was easy. A nice touch is that you don’t get a bag of bolts and screws. Everything is loosely attached where it is supposed to go, (like, three bolts with locking washers are screwed into the seat; you unscrew them, put the seat in place, and then screw them back in). So, you don’t have to fish around for hardware. Everything is solid and heavy duty – holes lined up and everything fit together solidly. Wiring is all done; just plug the monitor in. Resistance control is already fully installed. It took a little over an hour to assemble, and I took my time.Couple of things. I’m pretty duck-footed, so my heels usually hit the crank on exercise bikes. On this the cranks angle out enough that I have good clearance. I can even use the pedal clips instead of putting my feet way out on the outer edges of the pedals.That wrist rest thing? I thought it was a joke, but it’s essential. You rest your forearms on it to type or to do anything on the desktop. Without it you’d have to hold your hands and arms up in the air and that would get old quickly.The stretchy resistance thing I could take or leave, but I do fool with it when I just sit and read my Kindle.Seat is fine. I might pick up a cover some time, but it’s not essential.I use a mouse for my laptop and there’s no room on the desktop for that, so I’m using the touchpad, which is O.K. You could rig up an extension if it really matters.The machine is totally quiet. No sound from the bike at all and no vibration into the floor.The desk top slides forward and back, so you can adjust to get just the right reading distance for your laptop screen.I could go on, but the bottom line is that I’m delighted by this. It’s solid; it works; it’s good value.(I burned off 125 calories typing this review. Before, I would have done it on the couch. Sweet.)(FitDesk gives away a free bike to a school for every ten Amazon reviews that are posted. So, while I would have done a review anyway, I guess I should just note that non-monetary incentive for reviewers.)December 31, 2015 update. So, after 2,500 miles I started to get a clicking/grinding from the wheel housing that said “bad bearings” to me. I looked through Amazon comments and saw that this was a fairly common complaint about bikes bought around when I bought mine. Most people said the problem was promptly addressed. Not expecting much I went to the FitDesk website, found support, and sent a brief email asking if they’d stand by the bike. Get this. Email sent 12/28 at 3:30pm. Acknowledgment received at 4:10. Offer to replace entire main frame assembly at no cost and request for shipping address received at 5:01. On 12/31 entirely new frame delivered to my door. Twenty minutes later I’m on my new, reengineered, whisper smooth bike. Incredible. I love these guys.

I ordered this product to my house in Toronto. It came very quickly as it ships directly from a warehouse in Canada and doesn’t have to wait at the border on its way from where its shipped to my house.I assembled it in an hour. Pretty easy and great instructions. Easier than IKEA.It looks very nice and is nice and light so you can fold it up (which is easy to do) and wheel it into the corner each time you are finished using it. My wife will not tolerate a fitness bike in the middle of our TV room.Now the best part. It is the winter so its freezing cold here in Toronto and you can’t even walk outside because the sidewalks are covered in ice. I just bought a PS4 and Call of Duty and Killzone. I put the bike in front of my 65 inch TV and have biked while gaming for at least 40 mins every day this week. I bike late at night after my wife and daughter have gone to sleep. Time flies by while you are biking. One night I did 120 mins of continuous biking. It runs quietly and the seating position with the arm pads is perfect for gaming. The combination of doing something that requires a lot of focus while exercising is awesome. Time just flies by and you find you have been working out for hours. The seat is comfortable and the build quality is very good for something this cost and weight.This is great product and a great idea that really does work to get you exercising instead of sitting on the couch while doing normally guilt laden things like watching sports or playing video games.

I bought this product a year ago hoping it would encourage me to get more exercise. Over the last 12 months, I’ve cycled 686 miles, the distance between John O’Groats and London, and have definitely seen an increase in personal fitness. I cycle while working from home, while watching Netflix, and while listening to podcasts. In the past, I used to get discouraged from exercising by the bad weather outside, but this bike has meant that I’ve been able to continue to exercise even when it’s pouring outside. I find the seat really comfortable (unlike the pointy and hard seats of some other exercise bikes) and the desk portion allows me to use a laptop at the same time, which reduces the tedium of cycling. Despite a year’s heavy use, it’s still going strong. If you’re looking for a reasonably priced but reliable exercise bike, look no further.

Great for exercising whilst working! Not too hard to assemble, comfortable (would be slightly more awesome if you could bring the table part a little bit closer but that’s not a big thing for me).