Peloton Out of Business?

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I think Apple is going to buy them

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

It presents an interesting combination. Lord knows apple fitness is horrendous. It is like a Saturday night live sketch of a fitness class. I watched a class once and it was genuinely embarrassing.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

You should tell us all about how beach body, apple fitness, and iFit are comparable when they are not. Have you even attempted to watch their content?

It’s like Wish - garbage knock offs. That’s the garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

whoa that is a little aggressive. trash?

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Trash?! Have you even tried the bike or app? It’s not trash by any means. These are quality workouts. A great, supportive community. Why you don’t you give it a try before you opine on something you know nothing about.

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprised. I never quite understood the attraction of pedaling to nowhere with someone on a screen yelling at me to pedal faster. And paying thousands of dollars for it. To each their own, I guess. I'll stick with jogging and walking.

Yeah, that’s not what the classes are like at all. Probably shouldn’t speak on things you know nothing about.

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Anonymous wrote:If it gets sold, it won’t be forced years. They are too ambitious to exit at this point.

But I bet the Tread+ never gets re-released. And they scrap either the rower or the strength thing.

They are leveling back to prepandemic where they should be - good product, good community and interaction with that community, but not taking over fitness

Exactly. People are acting like Peloton emerged from the ether in March 2020. It was around and growing for years before that, and SoulCycle was already on the decline in 2017 (according to this article: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22195549/soulcycle-decline-reopening-bullying-bike-explained). Peloton had crazy growth for a year or so, and now there’s a correction. But there were lots of people who bought it well before the pandemic because they love the convenience and hate the gym, and those people will continue to exist even in a post-pandemic world. I’m one of them; I don’t even like the community, but I like spinning as exercise, like the instructors, and am thrilled never to have to go to a gym again. (For the people who are into the community, it’s a whole other level of commitment.)

I’ve also started to take strength and stretching classes, so I’m getting increasing value from the monthly membership, and other members of my family use it occasionally, as well. To answer OP’s question, I’d certainly pay more than $40/month—I honestly think that’s a huge bargain and am surprised they haven’t increased it yet—and probably wouldn’t start complaining until it crossed $75/month.

Yeah, SoulCycle is not doing well. They've had multiple studio closures since last year, and many of their top instructors left pre-pandemic; this accelerated once they reopened their studios. They're not getting the volume that they used to, thanks in part to Peloton's explosion during the past year.

And that right there is another issue.
And also, can we talk about "financing" your daily workout? Just go outside and run. It's free.

Some people don’t want to run outside (snore). They pay high monthly fees to join gyms or use subscription fitness services. They’re not poor enough to worry about needing to exercise “for free.”

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I prefer iFit to Peloton. I know people love Peloton because of the live classes and competition/leaderboard aspect of it, but I HATE that. I much prefer the road rides and chill studio classes that iFit has. Plus, it connects to my bike via bluetooth and automatically adjusts resistance and incline, which I also prefer.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

LOL be careful, you cant say a bad word against Peloton on DCUM. Rattles the cages.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

LOL be careful, you cant say a bad word against Peloton on DCUM. Rattles the cages.

Agree. Tread (see what I did there?!) lightly my friend. Peloton is not remotely close to trash. Love my bike!

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

LOL be careful, you cant say a bad word against Peloton on DCUM. Rattles the cages.

Be critical all you want. But you might say something intelligent and consider all the alternatives are genuinely horrendous. IFit being a potential exception but it doesn’t directly compare and the software interface for that is total garbage.

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Don’t criticize peloton or all the wackos will come out and bite you PP

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t criticize peloton or all the wackos will come out and bite you PP

I am totally in the peloton cult, full disclosure, but in my opinion on this thread you have people actively poking the peloton community (i mean seriously stationary bike workouts are not new and its ridiculous to call it 'trash' unless you're trying to provoke a response).

I also think a lot of 'fit' people like to call peloton crap (and I think someone in this thread said it was for 'overweight female heffers' which like, super classy right there!) because they think it isn't like, 'real exercise'. Because they have devoted their life to a definition of fitness and exercise that involves a lot of lifting, a lot of hours at the gym, a lot of work. And they resent a bunch of normal people claiming they have achieved 'fitness' when what those people have achieved is not the fitness that they would consider successful.

It is very like, gym elitism IMO. Which is funny, because they think peloton riders are elitist, but they are the ones gatekeeping what 'effective exercise' means.

IMO, the peloton is just the scapegoat for this overall feeling. Lame loser people who are riding a bike (or running on a treadmill, or taking tae bo classes on a VHS tape) don't REALLY care about fitness until they are in the gym, lifting heavy and tracking their macros. And honestly I think those are garbage people who are doing nothing but limiting the number of people who will try to achieve C level or B level fitness while accepting that they will never be at A or A+ level fitness and they're FINE with it.