JOROTO X2|X2PRO Exercise Bike, X4S Bluetooth Stationary Indoor Cycling Bike with Readable 100 Levels Magnetic Resistance, Plus 12.6 inch Tablet Bracket Exercise Bikes for Home

I have been road biking for over 20 years and decided recently to buy my first indoor bicycle as I have always ridden less in the winter months where I live (Massachusetts) and wanted to compensate for that. Also, I have more free time as my work moved fully remote due to COVID and so my commuting time has been eliminated.First off, the bike is rather simple to assemble. I watched the video on this page from Joroto that walked me through the steps and I had everything put together pretty quickly. Like with all items you will use often, please keep the tools nearby as you will need to tighten pieces such as the pedals and the seat now and then.This is a very well-made and heavy bike, but the wheels on the front bottom of the stand make it rather easy to move around your home, so long as you have a flat foor. Now, should you need to move it up a flight of stairs, that'll be more difficult as it weighs over 100 pounds. To note, the flywheel itself is a solid 35 pounds.This is a belt drive machine with magnetic resistance, so there's less need for maintenance, and you get a very quiet ride. I can easily watch a video, listen to music or carry on a conversation without having to raise any volumes above what I'd use when not on the bike. No complaints from anyone downstairs from me either!There is a large knob located on the frame that faces you when you ride that you can use to adjust the bike's resistance via a series of magnets that are controlled by it. The knob is easy to turn. It doesn't have any markings on it to tell you your resistance level as you can spin it fully several times to obtain what you want. You could always start off at the lowest resistance when you first begin to ride and keep track of how many times you spin the knob, if you want to try and measure where you are. If not, then just spin it until you get the resistance you want.The seat is pretty comfortable and can be adjusted quickly to ten different heights, which is great as three of us in my family of varying heights have been riding the bike. I see a lot of taller people asking whether bikes will accommodate their height. I am 6'2" (188cm) and have a 34" (86cm) inseam and have no problem at all fitting on this machine.The handlebars have seven different heights and can also be moved left or right for your convenience. There are two water bottle holders between the handlebars and I put my water bottle in one and my smartphone in the other one. If you leave the water bottle holders empty, then you can lay down a tablet or an opened laptop in front of you over the same space. With the design, you can't have a tablet and water bottle at the same time, so if that's important to you then either position your bike next to somewhere you can grab a bottle easily, or add a water bottle holder to the frame for $10-15.The pedals are very well-made and come with an adjustable toe cage. These are not clip pedals, but you can buy and swap out your own pedals as they come with the standard 9/16" thread. I use flat biking shoes that I've had for a while and don't feel the need for anything else. I definitely get a good workout on this bike.The customer service from Joroto is amazing. There is a nice one year warranty on the parts, and a 30 day return policy. I had a situation come up where I bought the bike here and then two days later the price was reduced - and just after my bike shipped out. I was thinking I'd have to reject delivery of this 100+ pound behemoth, or possibly haul it myself to the local UPS store, cancel the original order, buy a new one (which is what Amazon advised me to do), but when I reached out to Joroto their service was responsive and they had me wait for the bike, inform them it was all in proper order, and then they sent me the difference in price. Excellent!The one item I cannot praise is the monitor, which is a rather basic model to begin with, but I didn't buy this bike for it anyway. The monitor is a nice addition to have as it is there to keep track of your time in motion, your speed, your virtual distance "traveled", and your calories burned. Perhaps there is an issue just in my monitor, or in all of them, but it's just not accurate. First off, I felt on my second day using the bike that the time was a little fast. I then compared the bike's clock to several timepieces in my home and found that it is indeed fast, in that it clocks a minute every 58 seconds. So if you are on the bike for what appears to be 30 minutes, in reality you have only been riding for 29 minutes. It's probably not going to destroy your workouts, but it's something to consider. As for the other measurements, I was riding at a steady speed of 10 mph (according to the monitor), and yet after 6 minutes (or maybe I should say, after 5 minutes and 48 seconds) I was shown to have traveled only .47 miles when I should have traveled 1 mile with that speed, so the measurements don't tie out.While the monitor is not up to snuff, I'm not going to dock the product a star, as the construction of the bike and the ride you get for this price are well worth it, not to mention the very responsive customer service from Joroto - should you ever need it.If you're really interested in the metrics that are to be tracked by the monitor then you can look into supplemental products, which are often able to be integrated via bluetooth to your phone or tablet. Purchasing this quality bike and then adding on some supplemental products still leaves you well below the price of the bikes that have all of these components included.All in all, a purchase I am very happy with. For what you get this is a bargain, and in my case, my whole family is using it. Highly recommended!

Pre-covid, I rode a Peloton bike at the gym every other day for a little over a year. I loved it and it made me love to workout, which I never really liked before. But, covid hit and my gym closed and I didn't want to pay that much money for a bike. After a very long period of no riding, I decided to buy the Cyclace bike. It was great in the very begginging and started making so many squealing sounds and I had to adjust things and grease things regularly and it would still be so loud. The sound was driving me and my family crazy. I eventually sent back that bike and bought this one. I haven't had it for long, but it is just a shockingly good bike. It is very close to the Peloton in smoothness of the belt, flywheel and resistance feel. I only have a couple of issues and they are small/or can't be helped in a bike at this price range. Here they are:Handlebars: I am 5'11" with long arms and normally wouldn't even notice if something was not maybe the best for a shorter person. But, I think it is noticeable on this bike. The handlebars are set in a way that if I have the seat in the place it us supposed to be for my leg height and seat placement where it should be for my thigh length, the handlebars are about a half an inch too far away (see pic...I have it set as close to the seat as posssible). It is not a huge deal to me, but someone with shorter arms may struggle a bit. The handlebars are also a bit wider set than they other two bikes I have used. But, it has these inner bars set at an angle that I really like to use when I am in the saddle. The other thing is that instead of an iPad holder on the handlebars, it has two drink holders. I use it for my iPad anyway, but had to use two small bungee cords to secure it in place so it wouldn't fall during the more intense rides.Resistance: the Cyclace bike had felt resistance pads and I really disliked that. It made a rubbing sound and I knew after I decided to send it back, I would get a bike with magnetic resistance. This bike has that and it is very smooth and can give you as heavy resistance as you could need (our of the saddle too). My only issue is that the resistance starts heavier than the other two bikes. Not too heavy, just I never would have that feeling of my legs just flailing. Which normally doesn't matter, but sometimes at the end of a cool down, I really like to open it up. But, it isn't a big deal. But, the bigger issue to me is how many cranks it takes to get from the lower resistance levels to the higher ones. It feels like the resistance doesn't change that much for several turns and then it heats up pretty quickly. This makes some intervals a little harder when you go out of the saddle with high resistance and then a quick seated recovery. But, I am getting used to it and I am wondering if the company may know of some little tweaks. I haven't reached out to them.All in all this is a really awesome bike. It is so quiet, so smooth and very sturdy. There is no sqeaking and squealing so far. I really hope it stays that way. Peloton is nearly perfect for me, but this bike is so close behind it. When you factor in the cost of both bikes, it is a no brainer to go this route, at least if you are a thrifty person like me.I am so happy with this purchase! The only thing that could make it better is a resistance output, but at this price range, you just wont find that. I use my heart rate to guide resistance.Some things that I use to make the spin experience of even better is:Peloton app (12.99 per month without the bike. Worth it!)Wahoo cadence tracker (it displays on the Peloton app and is so easy to attach to your pedal arm)Spd pedals and clip in shoes (to me it is a must after starting at first with regular shoes).Fitbit- I set it to spinning and use it to watch my heart rate. It really helps to guide how intense I set my resistance.I also use a TV tray next to the bike to hold my a small fan, my weights and my water. It works great and you can just tuck it away when your done (see pic).I also didn't purchase a mat and it works great on hard floors. I do keep a small rug next to it so when I get on a off, I don't scratch the floor with the clips. I leave my bike in the same place, so I don't know how easy it would be to move it around, but it has the wheels on the front.That is it. If you are on the fence, I would absolutely recommend it. If anything changes, I will update my review.

I chose this bike, when I was looking for an exercise bicycle that I could connect to my own apps, preferably with a Python or Godot interface. The claim in the listing that "iConsole connects to most apps" seemed a little ambitious, but I did some (limited) poking around online, and found some people reverse engineering the iConsole protocol. This should be a red flag - the fact that they were reverse engineering this protocol indicates that it's not public, not documented.I got the bike, and proceeded to try to connect to it using the reverse engineered work of others, and ran in to difficulty, as the iConsole protocol version that my bike speaks is a different version than the reverse engineered version that I had been looking at. To date, I've been able to reverse engineer what I think is the RPM data, but not the full set of data that the console displays.I contacted Joroto, and they confirmed that iConsole is not a documented protocol, but that this bike "supports Kinomap, Zwift, Spax, and Peloton, with Kinomap being the most stable option among them". I leave it to the reader if those four apps, plus the iConsole app featured in the screenshots, constitutes "most Apps", or if they cover your own needs/satisfaction. For my part, I'm not interested in a subscription app service to track my exercise, so I feel like my hopes that this bike would be communicating over standard, open, documented protocols were misplaced.I understand that most users will not care about Python access to their exercise equipment, and for them, this might be a fine choice. But if you're looking for something with broad support, keep shopping.