To all my Spinning® buddies and fanatics out there, don’t get too excited. I have nothing but kudos and good things to say about Spinning®, and have huge love for what Johnny G did to bring indoor cycling “to the masses”. Frankly, if it wasn’t for his work in the 80s, we would probably still be fighting to build the “perfect trainer” while a stationary bike is simply the perfect solution for both the class environment and introducing folks to cycling for the first time. If we can just stop our “us / them” thinking for a minute, we would see that whatever your style of cycling indoors, or whatever your bike manufacturer, it is all good for both the fitness and cycling industries respectively. Let’s be bigger than ourselves and help a rising tide raise ALL ships.

To that end, we have just left our Spinning® boat, and have embarked on a cruise liner to the next level. The results achieved in the Giretto proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only indoor training works, but when coupled with the right set of tools – which in today’s world must also include a power meter – can take you to multiple levels of performance above where you started. The Keiser M3 was purchased to help us train for the hardest, longest and most challenging cycling event we ever attempted, and the results convinced us to replace all our Spinner bikes with these amazing machines.

Now clearly, there are other power bikes on the market, and you can also use your own bike with a power meter and a trainer. I’m not out here selling Keiser bikes – it was simply the model that we settled on after test runs and training success. The REAL point is having proper training tools, matching class design, and a facility that demands instructors to educate as well as entertain. These are not mutually exclusive objectives. Our kick off event held 2 nights ago proved that – and the 5 minute YouTube video will give you a taste of how that went.

This is indeed the mission of Cycling Fusion; to help indoor cycling reach its full potential for both outdoor cyclists as well as dedicated indoor enthusiasts, and yet to challenge the indoor only folks to broaden their horizons by exploring the outside world on 2 wheels. We can not only all “get along” as the cliché goes, but we can actually help or at least enjoy each other’s company along the way. If you haven’t ever read the full Cycling Fusion Manifesto, please take a moment to do that. Impacting an entire industry will be difficult to do, but we can do it with a ground swell of folks who catch the same vision.

You can read the full press release of the kick off night and the departure from Spinning® by clicking on the press release hyperlink.