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Exercise Bike Links
A good place to start researching exercise bikes is the Our Sources section of this report.
Consumer Reports has a good buyers' guide to home exercise equipment, including exercise bikes.
Building-Muscle101.com also offers an Exercise Bike Buyers' Guide.
We found this PDF brochure from the American College of Sports Medicine to be helpful.
Fitness and nutrition writer Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times provides some insight into the psychology of purchasing exercise equipment in the article "With the Right Motivation, That Home Gym Makes Sense."
Elizabeth Quinn, About.com's sports medicine guide, has written an article on Selecting and Effectively Using a Stationary Bicycle. (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)
Barbara Russi Sarnataro has written an article about choosing an exercise bike for WebMD.
Entrepreneur.com has an article by Geoff Williams titled "From Gamer to Gym Rat" that discusses the trend among some exercise equipment manufacturers to incorporate gaming technologies in order to make exercise less boring. .
Bloomberg.com also has an article on the next wave of home exercise equipment called "Flabby Kids Put Perspiration Into 'Exergaming' Software Niche," written by Vivek Shankar.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission offers some safety tips helping the article "Prevent Injuries to Children from Exercise Equipment."
Manufacturers' websites also provide information and specifications:
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