This includes heart-rate monitoring and reporting, access to a wide variety of workout types and the ability to use your bike in a competitive workout environment (real or virtual) This includes ease of assembly, how much noise the bike makes and how well it tucks away when not in use if that's what you need in your space.
When testing any indoor bike, we're primarily interested in measuring the following:
Every indoor bike has the same basic feature set, but testing any bike as a viable Peloton alternative means the bike needs to meet a few basic benchmarks.