SoulCycle At-Home Bike Review — Best Indoor Spin Bike
Overall Score 9.8
SoulCycle At-Home Bike Review
Our Take Overview
For SoulCycle fans and newcomers to SoulCycle, the At-Home bike is a fantastic spin bike option for soul-lifting workouts to hit your fitness goals. Best described, SoulCycle is A Cardio Dance Party on a spin bike. Live classes and on-demand Class workouts bring the energetic, choreographed routines and inspirational instructors that define SoulCycle into your home.
Is SoulCycle At-Home Bike the best choice for you?
To help you decide we look at three areas: The SoulCycle at-Home bike Experience, The At-Home Bike itself, the Equinox+ App plus we share who would most benefit most, what fans have to say, what you need to know, and why this indoor spin bike is not like a Peloton — Fans say it’s better.
SoulCycle lives up to its reputation as a “Cardio Dance on a Spin Bike and mind-altering fitness “
Hello Happy Vibe
The SoulCycle experience transcends beautifully into an at-home experience as real as if being there. The inspiring instructors and energy of the pack transport the soulful emotion into your home. As you replicate the scene with a candlelit room and lights dimmed low for good tunes and some great cardio – it just feels like you are there – the intimate vibe of the tribe riding together. Leave the world and your worries behind for 45 minutes while getting in a really good heart-pumping workout.
Powered by inspiration, joy, and heart-pounding playlists, the SoulCycle Bike delivers an experience that moves you—from the comfort of your home to the front row of the SoulCycle Studio. It is an awesome way to work out especially, as it feels less like exercise and more like a fun dance party.
A SoulCycle At-Home bike is a high-end smart indoor cycle offering a compact design and a premium look and feel with a crystal-clear display and awesome sound. It has a 21.5-inch sweat-resistant touch screen with an anti-glare coating so you can literally pour your heart out.
The powerful dual 8-watt speakers with a 15-watt woofer make for superb engaging sound. Specifically engineered just for this indoor bike, the forward orientation of the speakers focused toward the rider provides a surround sound environment. Or if you want, you can connect headphones via Bluetooth. This Spin Bike is one of the sturdiest and most comfortable smart indoor cycles we have tested —safe to say you are not going to break it!
Up-lifting Ride Experiences
“This is nothing like a Peloton”
“I’m not competitive (not even with myself lol) so I love the aspect of SC that it focuses on beat and music and listening to your body - as opposed to peloton and stats being yelled at you.””
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When testing the SoulCycle At-Home Bike, we compared it to comparable models like the Nordictrack S27i Studio Cycle, Proform Pro Studio Bike 22, NordicTrack S22i, Peloton Bike and Peloton Bike+.
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We get hands-on with gear and discuss overall design, tech, and function, including the feel, price, drilling down on components such as the Flywheel, the screen display (if applicable), Resistance, bike’s Frame, subscription content, adjustment features, ease of use, noise levels, and durability.
Based on extensive use and testing, we discuss, summarize, and compare equipment to help you determine if this item is the one for you.
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1. RIDER EXPERIENCE
SPIN CLASSES
SoulCycle classes are more about each person’s individual experience, metrics displayed are kept minimal so there is no leaderboard, no watching calories burned, overall, a much less competitive focus numbers-wise. It is up to you to strike a balance between enjoyment and exertion. If you want to view your stats, you can display them with a simple swipe down from the top. The 3 on-screen metrics displayed are cadence, power, and miles —not too distracting.
SoulCycle At-Home Bike is immersive experience & less focus on metrics - see Form Rider Window
Music is the experience driver and an integral aspect of SoulCycle and the SoulCycle At-home Bike experience with tons of playlists to keep you motivated. SoulCycle offers a meditative, dance-focused workout.
Equinox Media signed a deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) to enable Equinox+ to access UMGs vast catalog, including artists like Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West, and Beyoncé. The music selection is good, and you can preview a playlist for a particular ride before you select it from the on-demand library. We believe they have the better music when compared to Peloton spin or Nordictrack classes.
There are workouts designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced riders, so no matter your experience level, you can find a ride that has just the right amount of challenge for you. The user interface is well thought-out and easy to navigate with selection filters to use when searching for classes by the instructor, class length, difficulty, and music preference—or a combination.
ON-DEMAND CLASSES
The on-demand rides give off club vibes with the instructor often hopping off the bike to dance to the beat while still promoting inspirational mantras. Duration of on-demand classes comes in 20, 30, 45, 60, and 90-minute sessions.
With the on-demand library, you can preview exactly what you are getting with each class, including the amount of choreography, fast paces, climbs, and weights. You can also see the playlist to see if it fits your mood and energy level.
After your ride, you get a summary of your stats including a Beat-Match Score. Your metrics—cadence (rpm), power (watts), and distance (miles)—are provided at the top of the screen, but no resistance.
With a quick swipe from the left to assist you to execute the specialized movements out of the saddle correctly during a ride, you can call up a picture-in-picture view of a “form rider,” who will demo proper form and who you can follow along with throughout the session as the camera pans from the participant to the instructor. One swipe hides it all —if you don’t want to see any details during your workout—like how much time is left, how far you have pedaled, or how hard you are working.
LIVE CLASSES
Live classes are filmed in a New York City studio, with a cool energetic, and calm feel that perfectly taps into the spirit of SoulCycle.
SoulCycle films live classes from New York. When you take a live SoulCycle class, you can see who is riding with you, where they are clipping in from and any milestones they’re celebrating. You can also decide what your display name is or choose to be Anonymous. Classes are high energy; they also have an authentic vibe with a calming effect. Live classes feel much less produced than the on-demand rides, instructors are often in a dimly lit studio surrounded by candles, which makes you feel as close to the studio experience as you can get. Amazing!
Live rides are added frequently to the on-demand workout library for a limited time, usually a week. You can see which classes were super wonderful from the comments in the FB group. The At-Home pack is really active and posts constantly about which Live classes not to miss. The on-demand catalog is an entirely different set of rides, so you have lots of choices and favorites.
That means more streaming than ever, live and on demand SoulCycle rides every week.
"SoulCycle is a Cardio Dance Party on a Bike"
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2. BIKE EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
Designed for tap-backs, push-ups, sprints, and climbs, the SoulCycle At-Home Bike delivers the ultimate SoulCycle ride and looks good doing it. It is a premium, durable model with a variety of excellent interactive training options and has all the top specifications of a commercial indoor cycle that is built to last. The sturdy steel frame and commercial grade components such as the weighted flywheel and carbon-fiber belt provide a smooth and virtually silent ride.
It is designed with a wider base and adjustable feet for maximum stability with every sprint, and climb, each tap-back and push-up in mind. The steel commercial grade frame is treated with a gray powder coat for an ultra-sleek finish.
The SoulCycle Bike is made through a design and manufacturing partnership between SoulCycle and Stages and is based on the Stages SC1 bike. Stages' core strength and well-deserved reputation are in part because they have built more premium indoor bikes than any other company in this space. Stages is a global brand partnering with Team USA, 4-time Tour de France winner Team Sky and is in over 5,000 bike shops.
The SoulCycle Bike has incorporated many elements from the Stages commercial lineup and is in short, a reliable sturdy bike that offers a smooth, silent, frictionless ride offing silent electromagnetic resistance and ships with the exclusive Stages Power Meter to capture your ride metrics.
“Trading in my peloton for the soul bike today!!!! 😂 For everyone wondering… the soul bike is so much better than the peloton. I love that I can actually “feel” the pedal strokes (carbon fiber chain), it’s way sturdier and heavier, so much more customizable with positioning, way easier out of the saddle runs.”
ADJUSTABLE RESISTANCE
Quiet to use this indoor bike has an easy-to-use resistance system putting you in total control featuring a micro-adjust resistance dial and emergency push-to-stop.
The SoulCycle Bike does not offer automatic trainer-control for resistance adjustments as does the Peloton Bike+ or Nordictrack S22i bike, a feature people especially like with the Nordictrack’s series of indoor bikes. Despite SoulCycle not having this feature it does not seem to spoil the SoulCycle experience due in part to its lesser focus on competitive metrics and SoulCycle does not feature on-demand trainer-led location rides where auto-adjustments are more immersive and useful as you ride through varying terrains streamed on screen.
THE SCREEN
The 21.5-inch touchscreen is a competitive size with a sharp, crisp resolution (1920 x 1080) displaying workouts in full HD. The screen will tilt adjust up and down, but it does not rotate from side to side like the Nordictrack S27i, but neither does the Peloton Bike. The SoulCycle At-Home is a high quality and durable indoor bike with a variety of good interactive training options offered through the Equinox+ app. A nice feature of the SoulCycle Bike is that the handlebars can easily be adjusted forward and backward, in addition to up and down along with the bikes seat making the At-Home Bike flexible to fit most riders.
Sharp 21.5 Full HD touchscreen - you can adjust to move handlebars closer to or further back
Bike Seat / Saddle with 3 adjustment options
Handlebars adjusts horizontally and vertically
3. THE EQUINOX+ APP
UNLIMITED SWEAT / GREAT VALUE
For just $39.99/month, you get access a growing library of all classes across the Equinox+ app—including SoulCycle live and on-demand classes with the instructors, music, and energy generating pack you love, plus access to Equinox, Pure Yoga, Precision Run, and more. The Equinox+ App gives you access to the latest trending boutique fitness classes and adds a huge range of options to choose your off-the-bike workouts from.
The Equinox+ App is a real money saver and adds insane value to your SoulCycle bike purchase. You even get access to Headstrong for meditation sessions. The instructors are best in class.
Does Equinox+ integrate with Apple Health?
Yes, you can connect your Apple Health account to your Equinox+ account to be able to sync more detailed metrics after each ride. The Equinox+ App is integrated with Apple Health. Equinox+ will export completed class data to Apple Health, which will appear in the Apple Fitness App. Also, any other activities completed in other apps outside of Equinox+ can be imported into members’ Equinox+ Activity History. For example, if you row or run with an Apple Watch, or an Apple Health-compatible App (such as Nike Run Club), that activity will appear in the Equinox+ Activity History as well. So, for instance, if you are working with a personal trainer, you will have all your stats in one place.
As a side note if you want to track your heart rate Apple Watch does a good job, just select “Indoor Cycle” when the class starts. The Soul Cycle At-home Bike’s console does include an embedded chip to support Apple GymKit. We expect further Apple integration features in the near term.
WHAT WE LOVE
SoulCycle Vibe • 21.5” HD touchscreen • Equinox+ • Live Classes
SoulCycle rides get you moving in step with the beat of music while dancing on the bike. A SoulCycle At-Home Bike offers fun and challenging workouts that combine cardio and strength training with elements of dance and meditation.
The At-Home bike is extremely sturdy with a sweat-resistant and anti-glare touchscreen that gives you easy access to your on-demand library plus live classes from the NYC studio viewed with an excellent hi-quality resolution.
MUSIC THEMED CLASSES
The live classes really shine as the content can be a “unique” live event. For example, in May, a one-of-a-kind Lady Gaga-themed ride honored Mental Health Awareness Month and celebrated the 10th anniversary of Lady Gaga's Born This Way album, which amplifies the SoulCycle message of embracing individuality. These live events add an engaging dimension to SoulCycle live rides. Sadly, these live events are not added to the on-demand library but do add that “don’t miss” excitement and community building.
WHAT TO KNOW
✓ The SoulCycle At-Home Bike delivery will arrive within 1-3 weeks. Ships to the 48 contiguous US states and Washington, D.C.
✓ Your bike will arrive pre-assembled so there is no tricky assembly process, so you’re good to go, and they take away all the packaging. All-in-All delivery is a 20–30-minute process.
✓ Pedals are dual-sided so you can choose to clip-in with LOOK Delta or SDP cleats depending on your preference. (See our 5 Best Cycle Shoes Article)
✓ The SoulCycle at-home bike supports Bluetooth 5.0 and ANT+ to easily connect to wireless headphones and heart rate monitors along with other sensor devices.
✓ The SoulCycle At-Home bike has a footprint of 62.2" L x 22.2 W x 53.5 H. It’s recommended you leave 24 inches clearance on all sides.
✓ The At-Home Bike fully assembled weighs in at 142 lbs.
✓ The wheels on the front make it easier move your bike after workouts.
✓ The SoulCycle bike is suitable for riders with a height ranging 4'10" to 6'10" and has a user weight capacity of 350 Ibs.
✓ The SoulCycle bike comes with a 5-year warranty for the frame of the bike AND A limited 1-year warranty for the display and bike components.
✓ SoulCycle offers a 30-day trial, so if you're not happy with the bike, you can get a refund, minus a $250 shipping and handling fee.
GOOD TO KNOW
The Equinox+ app powers the classes that show up on the bike’s screen. You’ll be able to track your progress with SoulBeat —a post-ride recap that shows how you connected to the music during class and measures your distance and power. Metrics for every class you take on the bike will be added to your activity history in the Equinox+ mobile app. The Equinox+ app is $39.99 per month and includes access to unlimited on-demand and live bike classes as well as, [solidcore], Equinox, TB12, Headstrong, Pure Yoga, and Precision Run.
▪ SoulCycle recently launched a feature called Soul Arms, offering 5 to 15-minute arm workouts taught by SoulCycle instructors. These workouts are meant to be taken alone or layered on top of bike classes to give you extra upper body burn.
Soul-Arms collage illustrates the combination of arm exercise with weights while riding
▪ All SoulCycle on-demand classes are also available in the Equinox+ app, so if you need to work out on different bike equipment when traveling or at the gym, you can still train with your favorite instructors.
▪ If you would rather watch classes on a big screen, you can cast Equinox+ content from your mobile device to your TV via Apple AirPlay or Google Chromecast.
▪ If you do not feel like a trainer-led class on the bike's touchscreen, you can select the Free-Ride option that comes in two modes. 1. to listen to your custom music playlist with a screen saver rotating stunning images or 2. you can watch Amazon Prime, Disney+, even Netflix, which is a “how-to” question on indoor bikes we get asked a lot, so this is nice see as an option for riders.
““That moment when you just finished a live class, about to do a chill Free Ride... but then see another live class starts in 15 minutes and the Trainer’s Playlist is 🔥 🔥 🔥 😄 💪. I’m gonna die today” 🤣 - Alisha”
▪ The SoulCycle bike has two water bottle holders which can also work nicely as a place to set a phone down. There is a dumbbell rack behind the seat which is convenient to reach. (Weights are not included, but matching ones are available for sale in the SoulCycle shop.
POINTS OF DISTINCTION
The SoulCycle Experience, definitely.
The SoulCycle At-Home Bike is a Cardio Dance Party on a bike that lifts your Soul — We kid you not! It's intensive cardio through core-toning moves such as the “tap back” — standing and pedaling while nearly touching one’s derrière to the seat, yet surprisingly also conveys the calming aura of a yoga class.
SoulCycle is certainly a way different workout experience over Peloton or NordicTrack with much less of a metrics focus. SoulCycle unfolds in a nightclub-like atmosphere: a dark room with scented candles burning (SoulCycle’s signature grapefruit scent), rhythmic music pulsing and instructors sporting skulls and flywheels on their outfits while thundering instructions and inspirational mantras from an elevated bike in front — you simply forget you’re exercising.
“SoulCycle has the unique ability to make 45 minutes pass quicker than any other cycling class.
A candle-lit studio makes you somehow feel enclosed in your own cocooned space, focused not on those around you but purely on yourself, the great music, and the instructor. This experience easily moves into your home, you feel as if you are in the studio. So, turn the lights down, light a candle, and boom! Your SoulCycle experience begins – get ready to get positive, happy, and energized.
SoulCycle may sound more like a cult instead than a fitness option, but the impact is mental and emotional. Many say life changing. You feel better after a SoulCycle class. Empowered, confident, and stronger – the At-Home Bike makes it possible to replicate the studio seamlessly. You can get a ride in anytime and whenever you can still visit a studio when it is convenient.
Who Should buy a SoulCycle At-Home Bike?
SoulCycle At-Home Bike riders are a diverse group. If you love music & positive energy this bike is you
SoulCycle Studio Fans
Fans of Studio Cycle will love having the At-Home bike. It closely replicates the studio experience; it is easy to sense being there as part of the pack. The energy and soul vibes translate well from studio to home. Work out anytime at your convenience with the SoulCycle At-Home bike and never miss a ride.
New SoulCycle Riders
For those new to SoulCycle you will love the At-home bike to perfect moves and gain confidence when the time is right to take a ride at the studio. You get an energy boost from the pack as you learn the movements, embrace the inspiration, and get stronger. The At-Home bike offers the convenience to ride anytime especially with many still WFH. And the Equinox+ offers a wide range of options to try like boxing, yoga, HIIT, recovery, and Pilates.
People who love dancing, music, and inspirational mantras will super enjoy a SoulCycle class. If you don’t live near a studio the At-Home bike gets you almost there. You will feel the energy especially if you can down the lights and burn a scented candle! - Hopefully a Grapefruit one.
Those Looking for Something New
People who want to try different trending workouts will enjoy the Equinox+ App that powers the SoulCycle At-Home bike.
“I LOVE my bike! It was a game changer for me and will change the way I exercise long term. I’ll still go back to studios eventually, but the bike saves so much money and is an added time convenience. Especially, since I’ll eventually have to go back to the office. The instructors are amazing and there’s something for everyone.”
Soul Cycle Community -The Pack
The Community is strong around SoulCycle with plenty of support and recommendations from fellow riders. Get a feel of SoulCycle At-Home Bike Facebook group with these Best on Demand Class recommendations:
Throwback Ride: No Rules. Hands down best class! With Kathleen
I love doing free ride option to Taylor Swift Netflix concert specials and her Disney + documentary. A good alternative to a theme ride.
30 min guilty pleasure (that’s the name of it) with Val!
Val has a 30 minute one that’s really good too called sing and sweat!
Victoria’s Ride Hard, Rock Out class... it’s a must.
Just took Ross’ Pride Ride. Thing of Beauty. Thing of Joy. Do Not Miss.
PRICE OPTIONS
The Cost of SoulCycle At-Home Bike is currently $1,500 was $2,500 limited time only. Save $1,000 (plus applicable tax). This includes assembly and Free Shipping (a $250 value). The bike arrives as one piece and is hand-delivered inside your house or apartment. There is a monthly class membership of $39.99 for which you get unlimited access to live and on-demand SoulCycle classes through your bike, plus you get access to off-the-bike cross-fit classes from other brands, available exclusively on Equinox+, which is included with your membership.
Equinox Plus offers good value for its content but also because it enables you to set up as many as 4 individual SoulCycle accounts which is great for a family or shared living situation.
You can finance your bike purchase for $50/month for 39 months at 0% interest. (Financing through Bread. Check approval with no impact to your credit score.)
SO IN THE END ─ Final Thoughts
Powered by inspiration, joy, and heart-pounding playlists, the SoulCycle At-Home Bike delivers an experience that moves you—from the comfort of your home to the front row of the SoulCycle studio. It is an awesome way to work out as it feels a lot less like exercise and more like a Cardio dance on a bike. Owners’ of this spin bike are a diverse group so if you love music & positive energy this Spin Bike is for you.
The SoulCycle At-Home Spin bike is not like a Peloton, it’s way better. This bike brings the studio SoulCycle experience home so you can tap into immersive on-demand or live classes with inspiring instructors—who are authentic, unscripted, and inspirational, with tailored playlists workouts, are synchronized to the music by instructors specifically trained to teach spin.
The SoulCycle At-Home bike is a high-end, Commercial grade, smart indoor cycle offering a compact design and a premium look and feel, with a crystal-clear screen and awesome sound. Or if you want, use wireless headphones via Bluetooth. This exercise bike is one of the sturdiest and most comfortable smart indoor cycles we have tested to date —you are definitely not going to break it.
