{"id":307946,"date":"2025-11-25T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:19:07","slug":"is-this-crazy-solid-marble-exercise-bike-black-fridays-wildest-fitness-deal-probably-so-heres-what-you-should-actually-buy-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307946\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this crazy, solid marble exercise bike Black Friday\u2019s wildest fitness deal? Probably… so here\u2019s what you should actually buy instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture an exercise bike in your head for me real quick\u2026 got an image in your head? Good. Now chuck that image away and instead picture an enormous, 85 kilogram disc of polished marble, with horns, and miraculously a saddle and pedals. Now we\u2019ve reached the very design-forward Ciclotte Exercise Bike<\/a>, which by some miracle, is discounted down from a heady \u00a314,000 to… uh, a still-unaffordable \u00a310,500.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest with you, despite a saving of \u00a33.5k this isn\u2019t a deal that\u2019s going to sneak into our Black Friday Bike Deals<\/a> hub, or even our list of the best exercise bikes<\/a>, but it has got me thinking if you did have 10 grand to drop this Black Friday, where you should splash your cash and still get an aesthetic indoor training setup that doesn\u2019t fall short when actually training.<\/p>\n

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First up, let’s start with the trainer. Looking at our list of the best smart trainers<\/a>, all of which represent quality options for getting a workout in, the Elite Justo 2 is probably the most aesthetically pleasing option, as well as being our \u2018best overall\u2019 for its balance of features and price. It\u2019s also available at Halfords currently for \u00a3849, which isn\u2019t listed as a sale, but it is cheaper than I\u2019ve ever seen it before.<\/p>\n

USA: Quick Black Friday Deals<\/p>\n

UK: Quick Black Friday Deals<\/p>\n

What you should buy instead<\/p>\n

Obviously you need something to sit on the Justo, and in order to stick to the theme, let\u2019s go for a 1st gen Specialized Aethos Comp. The white paint is minimalist and marbled, and to my mind, it\u2019s a much more attractive object than \u2018Big Rock Circle\u2019. What\u2019s more, you can use it outside, and it\u2019s at a whopping 40% off.<\/p>\n

Actually, regardless of the silly nature of this article, this Aethos deal is truly sensational and well worth a piece on its own.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I tried to find a vibey indoor mat for everything to go on, but they\u2019re either black (yawn) or hideous. The best I could manage was a marble yoga mat to keep things consistent, but you might have to freestyle this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture an exercise bike in your head for me real quick\u2026 got an image in your head? Good.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}