Luxury Vs Everyday: How To Improve Your Indoor Cycling Setup

What’s your indoor cycling setup? 🏠🚴

My pain cave is top of the line: an automatic fan that blows harder the faster you go, varied photorealistic 3d graphics, surround sound, seasonal temperature variations, the whole nine yards. The only problem is that this setup is so big that I have to keep it outdoors.

Alex's bike collection at 9:31, and Matt's simple wall hanger at 2:26. It would be interesting for GCN to do a video on bike storage solutions for small spaces.

This would be a great regular thing… tours of epic pain caves. Haha like MTV cribs

Wish you a speedy recovery, Mannon.

12:20 Alex: "Now Manon's gone, I can slow down". LOL, okay so even slower than 40W?

wishing Manon a quick recovery from what looks like a foot or ankle injury, hopefully not too bad of one!

Got a permanent set up in my kitchen with one of my two pride and joys. The kitchen is also the place I sit when working from home so I glance over at my bike throughout the day and just wait until the working day is over and the fun can begin!

Dedicated bike on a Wahoo Kickr and Climb it was expensive, but encourages me to put in time during bad weather and makes winter riding possible during the copious lake effect snow we receive in west Michigan

Honestly, if I knew how much I would use my trainer before I bought it, I would have spent a little more to get a dedicated smart bike. No chain to mess with or extra wear on your road bike!

I’ve got my road bike and second-hand Wahoo Kickr set up in the corner of my home office with a TV to run Zwift and a spot for my phone to run SYSTM (I like SYSTM’s workouts better but enjoy the video game aspect of Zwift). It’ll stay up during the winter; if I get outside, it’ll be on the gravel bike. I’m thankful I have the economic privilege to have the options.

Thanks for doing all these videos on indoor cycling setups! I was able to figure out everything I needed. I'm a mountain biker in the summer and this will be my first winter as a Zwifter!

Loved seeing and hearing the setups on the videos and the chats!

having a second road bike, a nice luxury really helps make a perm setup. Been using the kickr snap for years, will be investing in the kicker core soon, time to setup!

My wife and I have a pain corner in our bedroom. Last summer I found a Stages smart bike for sale for a ridiculously good price. Being smaller than a bike on a trainer it fits the corner well. An older unused iMac serves as the dedicated Zwift computer and a Vortec fan keeps us cool. Smart bike easily adjusts between us and we freed up two older bikes for townie use and sold two trainers to significantly defray the smart bike cost and free up basement space.

I was looking into an indoor setup and Matt's looks about right for me. I was leaning toward the Kikr Core as well so good to hear how it works for moving around reasonably simply. And what the heck happened to Manon's foot???? Hope you feel better soon.

Great video ! What type of hangers/storage does Alex use to hang up all his bike in his garage taking up as little space as possible?

I'm lucky, because when we moved to our new house my wife announced I could have what was the nursery as my pain cave. So I purchased the Wahoo Kickr, Climber and fan and set that up with my PlanetX ProCarbon. Used to take the PlanetX out regularly in the summer. But now have a new Look ,also sanctioned by my wife, the PlanetX stays permanently on the turbo trainer. One lucky chap here 👌🙂😉

When we moved into our house 12 years ago we decided we wouldn't use the garage for cars, but rather for storage and a gym. Since then I've added a permanent indoor training setup which has been enhanced over the last 6 years but now comprises Tacx Neo (OG), dedicated trainer bike, 50" LCD, high velocity floor fan and state-of-the-art Intel NUC running 4 different cycling apps. The only downside is that it's draughty (which means it gets a bit dirty) and freezing in Winter and can be a bit warm in Summer. Covers keep the electronics clean but I can be up and cycling in a couple of minutes. The only change I'd make is move it all indoors with A/C!

I have a permanent but low space setup. Wall mount TV hooked up to the computer, bike and trainer are set up next to the window. My TV (read, junk) stand holds my peripherals and mouse just in front of the handlebars since the wheel overlaps the stand. Trainer bike is my performance road bike, so it only gets to go out in dry weather and otherwise lives on the trainer. Behind the bike and over the rear wheel is a wide shelf (only maybe 6" from the saddle), where I store spare wheels and bike tools, etc. I.e. it is fit into a corner with enough room to comfortably pedal without feeling crowded. I don't have room for a kickr move, although I might be able to build a rocker plate into the space. Next upgrade is to build some sort of hanger from the bottom of the TV to hold my phone or a tablet, as I run Zwift on the computer, and use SYSTM for my actual workout on the phone.