Anyone know anything about exercise bikes?

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Well Oiled

Much better to get a road bike and if you're not up to it yet, just go round the block a couple of times and build up from there.

The thing about my block is that it's more or less vertical... I used to ride daily, so I found it really pretty soul destroying to not be able to get up my street. Part of the secret of my recovery has been to never think of myself as a crippo, you can't do that when you have to push your bike up every hill I want to be able to cycle to work in the summer though. Knock the rust off my old Carrera with a sledgehammer, and see if it goes.

I have an orbital cross trainer thingy, with the fan. It's pretty good, when I don't have a week's washing piled on it, I get a few miles in while watching Trisha.