Recumbent Bikes: What’s the Difference?

There exist several types of exercise bikes: recumbent bikes, upright bikes, and indoor cycling bikes. All of them are used for training/fitness purposes only and can be used for both home gyms and professional fitness clubs.

Recumbent bikes are just one of several types of exercise bikes. Visually it can be easily distinguished from the rest of this group. At first sight they seam a bit ridiculous and funny because the rider is placed in laid-back reclining position. But this position is considered by most riders as very ergonomic and comfortable.

Recumbent bikes (or simply recumbents) can be categorized by their wheelbase, wheel sizes, steering system, faired or unfaired, and front-wheel or rear-wheel drive.

There are so many amazing models of recumbent bikes that do not even look like bikes. They look like some extraordinary scientific inventories. For example, they can have three wheels or be made for two riders (tandem recumbents).

Recumbent bikes are not that often met in fitness clubs and home gyms as exercise bikes. Exercise bikes belong to the most popular fitness equipment today. There are several main reasons for this: price, convenience in use and storage, and high effective ness (which refers mainly to cardiovascular system strengthening, weight loss and calorie burning).