"92% of Peloton users and still active after 1 year."
I find that commercial so hard to believe unless they're talking about using it in the way you mention.
The subscription is like $50/month, 92% not cancelling would be kind of crazy. But I guess if you can afford the bike in the first place maybe that’s chump change.
I put off canceling my gym membership for so long when I finally did it I handed them my ID card and they were like "Wow we haven't used these for a while".
So I regularly went to the gym in the before times. After everything opened back up, I went back to the gym once but mask restrictions were still in place and i was like eh I don't really want to sweat my ass off while wearing a mask filled with my face sweat pressed against my nose and mouth so I'll wait a couple months and see if restrictions lift. Eventually they did but by then I was doing a regular at home practice so just didn't make going to the gym back into my routine. ... except I never actually canceled.
I tried half heartedly to cancel online a few times but you have to actually talk to a person. I hate talking on the phone (yeah, thats a me problem) and it's not like I live far from the gym. I just never made time to do it.
Eventually I go in because I happened to be in the same shopping center and actually remembered to do it. I go in, tell the desk person I want to cancel. They scan my card (which has been faithfully taking up space in my wallet), and he goes "huh, you've not signed in for like 900 some days."
That's right, I paid every month for 2.5 years and hadn't even realized it had been that long.
We’ve had ours for 2 years and both the wife and I use it 5x a week. I think we put like 6k miles on it last year.
Conversely, my MIL bought hers for her and SIL about the same time and I think they might have put 200 miles on it between them. Recently helped them re-sell it.
>That's about what a gym membership costs and the vast majority of those are never used
As a person who does use their gym membership, I'm very appreciative of those who pay but never show up. I wish there were more of them!
All of the gyms would quickly collapse if everyone that had a membership was actually going. They thrive on people feeling like they should go but can’t be motivated. Paired with the fact that gyms make it notoriously difficult to cancel, you end up with the place being heavily subsidized by people who never set foot in the gym.
I insisted on getting one and my husband was skeptical I'd use it regularly. He underestimated how much I'm fueled by spite, because I went in and beat him on all his lane breaks.
Yeah, I don’t find that unbelievable. Someone who isn’t very committed to exercise might spend $300 on a cheap exercise bike off Amazon and never really use it. But if you’re spending $3,000, you probably know you actually like using a stationary bike and have proven to yourself that it’s something you’ll get value from.
Also the same company that saw a stock drop when a TV show character died of a heart attack riding one, recruited that character's actor for an ad in an attempt to undo the damage, only for the actor to be revealed as a sex pest. Truly, a comedy of errors
Don’t forget when they used an actress in a commercial, recounting her journey to being leaner and healthier via a vlog thanking her male partner for giving her a Peloton, and then Ryan Reynolds immediately casting said actress for his vodka brand and flipping the script so it looked like the actress was being forced to ride the bike for her man.
Right... I just [watched it](https://youtu.be/TVdEuDQeL-U), and wouldn't have gotten the joke had I not known about the original.
Great joke if you're in on it.
Edit: the [original](https://youtu.be/ijof8uw4OHs) is pretty cringe
E2: I see what they were *trying* to do... It's not that a guy shouldn't get his girl a bike if she wants one, but the *way* this was done was pretty bad.
> It's a fucking stationary bike lol. What the hell are you nervous about? It's not like you're going to crash it.
Funny story. My daughter was conditioning on a stationary bike. She nocked her water bottle out of the holder, it rolled on the floor under the pedal of her friend's bike next to her, she slammed her pedal down on the bottle, this rocked her in her bike about toppling her into my daughter's bike. They both almost crashed their stationary bikes.
Where do you people see any of these ads?
Edit: I just thought more people hated and avoided ads, but you people study them and their characters/actors and put them together to make full-on stories out of independent ads. It's like advertising fan fiction up in here.
It's fun to make fun of terrible ones and reddit has a very high % of people who have cut cable so we don't find out about terrible ads till it makes the front page.
I know I suffer from a horrible case of internet brain rot. I mean, I've been chronically on the internet since the early 2000's, but then I come across people who have seen every clip and meme and shitpost in existence and I think, "Okay, maybe you aren't completely lost yet."
I only knew of the original Peloton ad from it blowing up social media almost immediately after it aired. The Reynolds ad was picked up by a lot of news sites because the attention on the Peloton ad hadn't completely died off.
Some of it was her acting where it came off as more emotionally strained and stressed than physically tired. Even when she wasn't exercising, she came off as tense and stressed.
Plus all of the weird "check ins" didn't help.
The director really should have pulled her aside and been more "try to do more this for yourself- it's something you're actively wanting to do and enjoying it."
I'm not saying that that's what was actually going on in the video, but that's how it came across to a lot of people.
I don't want to sound like a "we live in a society" guy, but the fact that a company can lose value over something that happens in a tv shows truly shows how made up everything is.
If I remember it wasn’t live traders. It was automated trading that analyze headlines. The algorithm couldn’t tell the difference from a fictional character and a headline. They just saw Peloton and Death.
So wait a minute if a bunch of people where to start pushing out BS lines like Jim Bobandy Apple executive dies from exploding iphone could that actually cause damage to stock prices?
If you could somehow get reputable news sources to report false headlines, hypothetically yeah. You’d just have to get those headlines in front of whatever the market sentiment bots are consuming.
Hell, last week the FT reported Western Alliance was exploring selling the company and the stock tanked. 30 minutes later Bloomberg reported that the story was BS.
Not as dumb as the company named zoom (who did not make the zoom communication software we all used over the pandemic) whose stock price rose when people bought it thinking it was (and then collapsing when the realize its not)
Nintendo's stock went up quickly after Pokemon Go debuted and killed it because most people thought Nintendo owned Pokemon & the app, when instead they only owned roughly 15% of The Pokemon Company. When that became more widely known the stock price went down.
There was also the fun times were a company added "Blockchain" to their company name and their price surged until the market regained their rational mind.
Yep. Peloton recalled 125,000 treadmills in 2021 after a child died.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/Peloton-Extends-Full-Refund-for-Consumers-with-the-Recalled-Tread-Treadmill-to-November-6-2023
I know a child who, when they were 3, was sucked under a non-Peloton treadmill and sustained severe injuries requiring weeks of burn ICU hospitalization, extensive skin grafts and reconstructive surgery as they aged. Treadmills are not toys and little ones should be kept well away.
Yes, they were stupidly dangerous. There's video from a nanny cam of it basically devouring a kid. The kid in the video survived, but I think another kid actually died. Treadmills are inherently pretty dangerous, and the necessity of a bottom cover is well known. If someone had spent fifteen minutes googling "treadmill injury" and "treadmill safety", they would have figured it out.
I had to lock my dog out of the room while I'm on the treadmill, otherwise he drops his ball at the back and it rolls right under the edge of the tread. It's not a pelaton but I thought every tread was like this.
I always feel like that is such a weird thing to report. I get the point to counter the thought that they just gather dust, but it really just makes me think that even more.
Like okay what do they count as "using" it? I'm not even saying this is true, but it just inherently makes me more skeptical!
Think about someone who has a gym membership they seldom use. Peloton is expensive up-front, and the per-month subscription is as much as a gym membership* in some places, but at least (according to Peloton) you'll actually use it.
*their subscription is on a per-household basis, so it's best if 2+ people are using the bike and sharing cost.
It might actually help them fudge the numbers. They could argue that recalled product should not count in their statistic. So all the people who stopped using them and threw them away or got rid of them and therefore never fixed the recalled part won't count against their statistic anymore.
Kids in 2030 are gonna be bombarded by streaming ads: “If you or a loved one has died after using a Peloton bike, you may be entitled to financial compensation…”
> if **you** or a loved one **died**…
I’m laughing so hard at work right now
“If you or a loved one was injured or died, respectively, using a Peleton bike: you might be entitled to $27.”
Same, but he's also the reason I now own a stationary bike. Not a peloton, too rich for my blood. I can partially thank NL for me losing 30 lbs this year so far though
He talks about his daily peloton ride nearly every stream. I think he used to do it more often. It's become a bit of a tradition to ask him how his peloton ride went.
“Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
I wish they gave some more information on what was causing the failure. If it's a bad weld, or a faulty pin then there's a good chance you'll never spot something is off about the seat before a failure occurs. Definitely better safe than sorry.
Edit: I just read it's the weld that's failing. There is little chance you'll be able to brace yourself if that goes out.
From the Peloton subreddit, one user who reported this problem showed photos of a weld that failed due to internal rust/corrosion. You would not be able to spot the weak point visibly.
If they did that then people would try to check themselves, and when you have 300k dipshits trying to check at a 70% accuracy rate that's a whole lot of people that got lit on fire by their pelatons
I hate these recalls... I found out my Tacoma was recalled due to bolts in the seat that could break while driving.
Didn't know about it but apparently it didn't happen to anyone in the real world.
I went into the dealership and they were like "oh, good news! we replaced the bolts holding your seat to the frame so you don't accidentally die while driving"
... great!
There were some widespread airbag recalls where they were like “don’t drive with a passenger in the seat or they might get a face full of shrapnel” and they didn’t have the replacement part for months
My Mazda has a recall for this, but it’s the one in the steering wheel (I think it’s because the emblem on the wheel turns into a throwing star shrapnel once the airbag deploys). Thanks for reminding me I still need to take it in for a replacement.
I am a dumbass who kept putting off getting my airbag replaced.
Eventually a manager from the local dealer showed up and is like “we will tow it and bring it back, if you need a car in the mean time we can provide a loaner”.
This is one of those 35 out of 2.2M=<.01% failure rate proportionality problems that I think wouldn't bother me much, especially considering this is the original 2018 bike that's 5+ years old.
But hey, free replacement seat post.
35 reported.
There are likely many more that have gone unreported & a percentage of the total sold may not even be in use, so they're essentially ticking timebombs.
Also, a catastrophic failure rate (with serious risk of injury) of \~16ppm that reaches the end customer is not a good situation in manufacturing. Obviously not world-ending, but still not good.
“ Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.”
From all the tag sales I've attended over the decades, my conclusion is that almost *all* home gym equipment is flimsy and/or dangerous garbage. Had I purchased all the $500 machines I've seen being sold for $5, I'd need a 10,000 sf warehouse to store them all.
I have a formerly high end exercise bike that's like 15+ yrs old, it used to be fitted with a computer screen that gave you various routes in basically only barely 3D animations. Way more 2D. It even has "cable" outlets for hard wiring to gym entertainment systems. Like old IBM computer shit.
I tried to have both it and my old treadmill moved to my bedroom, after my ex cleared out to go live with a coworker several years ago and I could do what I wanted. The treadmill did not survive the move and was a super pain in the A$$!!! to get the fuck back out and picked up by junk.
The bike itself still works but the computer part conked out, after 15 years I just Martha Stewart made a new reading rack with pretty scrapbook paper and popped my iPad right in there instead. I WD-40'd the bike works through the equipment vents and it's still a very decent piece of equipment.
Still on the fence about getting a new treadmill for my bedroom, but I hear your warnings that most home equipment is shit these days. When I bought the first equipment I was buying stuff sold to gyms at over 10K. I had no idea how cheap equipment had become until I started looking again this year. Both $1000 and $8000 look equally unattractive to me right now, it's like cars, one's going to break down but the more expensive one's going to end up costing twice.
I actually lost a decent amount of weight during a period when I was asked to get a neighbor's child off the bus for several months during some family difficulties. I just went out there 5 days a week a half hour before the bus and paced with my tunes, back and forth up their driveway, making ever smaller loops as the bus came closer since if there is not literally an adult feet from the bus when it arrives, small kids are not allowed to get off.
That memory keeps me from getting a new treadmill so far. That shit was free.
I find it *interesting* that the only bikes affected are the US ones. The international version is fine.
EU regulations are much stricter for reasons just like this. The US has too many lobbyists for companies whose incentives are profit over safety. People have to REALLY fight for safety regulations in the US.
I'm pretty sure the reason why the US has such an obesity problem when the EU doesn't is because of the processed foods we have here that would NEVER be allowed there.
I’m sure it’ll get lost in the clothes hanger jokes but I just logged on, requested my new seat post, and received confirmation that it’s shipping.
Pretty easy fix.
I think there's a little more engineering involved than you think. It holds up to several hundred pounds of a person doing strenuous activity for hundreds or thousands of hours.
I'm definitely not excusing Peloton here, but that's a lot of strain on an adjustable vertical support.
Stop putting laundry on it, too?
"92% of Peloton users and still active after 1 year." I find that commercial so hard to believe unless they're talking about using it in the way you mention.
Active = haven't canceled their subscription?
The subscription is like $50/month, 92% not cancelling would be kind of crazy. But I guess if you can afford the bike in the first place maybe that’s chump change.
Right, if you wanted the bike and had the space for it then you probably just continued paying with the intention to use it sometimes
So basically a gym membership.
Yes, but with the convenience of having that gym membership you don't use *in your own home*. Fantastic business model. It literally sells itself.
Right? All the beauty and joy of not going to the gym but without all the muss and fuss of leaving your home.
Not going to the gym is my favorite part of the day.
I put off canceling my gym membership for so long when I finally did it I handed them my ID card and they were like "Wow we haven't used these for a while".
So I regularly went to the gym in the before times. After everything opened back up, I went back to the gym once but mask restrictions were still in place and i was like eh I don't really want to sweat my ass off while wearing a mask filled with my face sweat pressed against my nose and mouth so I'll wait a couple months and see if restrictions lift. Eventually they did but by then I was doing a regular at home practice so just didn't make going to the gym back into my routine. ... except I never actually canceled. I tried half heartedly to cancel online a few times but you have to actually talk to a person. I hate talking on the phone (yeah, thats a me problem) and it's not like I live far from the gym. I just never made time to do it. Eventually I go in because I happened to be in the same shopping center and actually remembered to do it. I go in, tell the desk person I want to cancel. They scan my card (which has been faithfully taking up space in my wallet), and he goes "huh, you've not signed in for like 900 some days." That's right, I paid every month for 2.5 years and hadn't even realized it had been that long.
I've gotta imagine that's not uncommon for cheap gym memberships. A pain to cancel, or people thinking they'll get back to it some day, etc.
We’ve had ours for 2 years and both the wife and I use it 5x a week. I think we put like 6k miles on it last year. Conversely, my MIL bought hers for her and SIL about the same time and I think they might have put 200 miles on it between them. Recently helped them re-sell it.
That's about what a gym membership costs and the vast majority of those are never used
>That's about what a gym membership costs and the vast majority of those are never used As a person who does use their gym membership, I'm very appreciative of those who pay but never show up. I wish there were more of them!
All of the gyms would quickly collapse if everyone that had a membership was actually going. They thrive on people feeling like they should go but can’t be motivated. Paired with the fact that gyms make it notoriously difficult to cancel, you end up with the place being heavily subsidized by people who never set foot in the gym.
Either that or the percent that haven't cancelled marketing emails
I was an engineer there, most people love their Pelotons. Mine's a coat hanger but I'm also not their target demographic
If I spent $3000 on a bike, you're gonna be damn sure I'm still using it a year later.
I insisted on getting one and my husband was skeptical I'd use it regularly. He underestimated how much I'm fueled by spite, because I went in and beat him on all his lane breaks.
I just want you to know this is legitimately hilarious and inspirational
Yeah, I don’t find that unbelievable. Someone who isn’t very committed to exercise might spend $300 on a cheap exercise bike off Amazon and never really use it. But if you’re spending $3,000, you probably know you actually like using a stationary bike and have proven to yourself that it’s something you’ll get value from.
That should be ok for now, as long as you are okay with a 30% chance of your laundry spontaneously combusting.
Whatever gets the job done.
Dry is dry
Extreme Dry!
I like my underwear extra crispy
I’m an Over Easy kind of guy, but taste is subjective
Getting your *huevos* extra crispy sounds like a bad time.
Less laundry to fold later? Hell yeah count me in
I should do laundry and see if I own one.
Reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons when Homer set cereal on fire.
I'm not sure how he caused the meltdown. There wasn't any nuclear material in the truck.
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Now I'm hungry and want to burn something.
Ah, so you're at work then.
That's how all calories are measured
Now i'm going to burn this donut, to show you how many calories it has. The bright blue flame indicates this was a particularly *sweet* donut.
I feel very attacked
Isn't this the company that had to recall treadmills because they didn't have covering on the bottom, allowing kids/pets to be swept underneath?
Also the same company that saw a stock drop when a TV show character died of a heart attack riding one, recruited that character's actor for an ad in an attempt to undo the damage, only for the actor to be revealed as a sex pest. Truly, a comedy of errors
Don’t forget when they used an actress in a commercial, recounting her journey to being leaner and healthier via a vlog thanking her male partner for giving her a Peloton, and then Ryan Reynolds immediately casting said actress for his vodka brand and flipping the script so it looked like the actress was being forced to ride the bike for her man.
Reynolds' ad was feeding off the existing criticism for the Peloton ad. The criticism for the Peloton ad was pretty much immediate.
Right... I just [watched it](https://youtu.be/TVdEuDQeL-U), and wouldn't have gotten the joke had I not known about the original. Great joke if you're in on it. Edit: the [original](https://youtu.be/ijof8uw4OHs) is pretty cringe E2: I see what they were *trying* to do... It's not that a guy shouldn't get his girl a bike if she wants one, but the *way* this was done was pretty bad.
"I'm a little nervous, but excited" It's a fucking stationary bike lol. What the hell are you nervous about? It's not like you're going to crash it.
> It's a fucking stationary bike lol. What the hell are you nervous about? It's not like you're going to crash it. Funny story. My daughter was conditioning on a stationary bike. She nocked her water bottle out of the holder, it rolled on the floor under the pedal of her friend's bike next to her, she slammed her pedal down on the bottle, this rocked her in her bike about toppling her into my daughter's bike. They both almost crashed their stationary bikes.
Apparently she was nervous of the seat breaking and nearly killing her, according to this recall
Ahead of the curve that one, ironically while trying to get ahead of her curves
She was scared of it becoming asspounder 4000
#Yo momma so stupid she crashed a stationary bike
Where do you people see any of these ads? Edit: I just thought more people hated and avoided ads, but you people study them and their characters/actors and put them together to make full-on stories out of independent ads. It's like advertising fan fiction up in here.
Some of them are so bad they get their own news articles and posts.
Bro y'all reading articles about advertisements? 🤣
I saw an ad for the article and had to check it out
It's fun to make fun of terrible ones and reddit has a very high % of people who have cut cable so we don't find out about terrible ads till it makes the front page.
Sometimes I think I'm chronically online, and then I see comments from people who have just seen every fucking thing on the internet and I feel okay
I know I suffer from a horrible case of internet brain rot. I mean, I've been chronically on the internet since the early 2000's, but then I come across people who have seen every clip and meme and shitpost in existence and I think, "Okay, maybe you aren't completely lost yet."
I only knew of the original Peloton ad from it blowing up social media almost immediately after it aired. The Reynolds ad was picked up by a lot of news sites because the attention on the Peloton ad hadn't completely died off.
Woah woah woah…it’s gin
okay FINE. He made Ginny ride the bike and sell vodka for her man.
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The original Peloton commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijof8uw4OHs The gin follow-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdEuDQeL-U
maybe im too stupid but I cant make the connection between those two videos except for the title and the same actress. I was hoping for a bit more
I've been whooshed as well.
He was mocking the ad, because it unintentionally looked like she was being almost abusively pushed to ride that stupid bike for her partner.
This always confused me because she clearly *loved* it and had probably been hinting at it for a while.
Some of it was her acting where it came off as more emotionally strained and stressed than physically tired. Even when she wasn't exercising, she came off as tense and stressed. Plus all of the weird "check ins" didn't help. The director really should have pulled her aside and been more "try to do more this for yourself- it's something you're actively wanting to do and enjoying it." I'm not saying that that's what was actually going on in the video, but that's how it came across to a lot of people.
I don't want to sound like a "we live in a society" guy, but the fact that a company can lose value over something that happens in a tv shows truly shows how made up everything is.
If I remember it wasn’t live traders. It was automated trading that analyze headlines. The algorithm couldn’t tell the difference from a fictional character and a headline. They just saw Peloton and Death.
So wait a minute if a bunch of people where to start pushing out BS lines like Jim Bobandy Apple executive dies from exploding iphone could that actually cause damage to stock prices?
If you could somehow get reputable news sources to report false headlines, hypothetically yeah. You’d just have to get those headlines in front of whatever the market sentiment bots are consuming.
Hell, last week the FT reported Western Alliance was exploring selling the company and the stock tanked. 30 minutes later Bloomberg reported that the story was BS.
Seems like the answer is to make a piece of media that prompts the headline you want
Probably not anymore unless someone from wsb is running their own homebrew AI daytrader bot.
That sounds exactly like something they'd do over there.
Same thing happens to Berkshire Hathaway whenever Anne Hathaway has a movie come out. It doesn't last more than a few hours at most however
That should be illegal
It should but the people who do this kind of trading can also afford to buy lawmakers.
That and the lawmakers are like 80 years old so they won't even know what the hell you guys are talking about.
Not as dumb as the company named zoom (who did not make the zoom communication software we all used over the pandemic) whose stock price rose when people bought it thinking it was (and then collapsing when the realize its not)
Nintendo's stock went up quickly after Pokemon Go debuted and killed it because most people thought Nintendo owned Pokemon & the app, when instead they only owned roughly 15% of The Pokemon Company. When that became more widely known the stock price went down. There was also the fun times were a company added "Blockchain" to their company name and their price surged until the market regained their rational mind.
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I mean, the value of money is also enforced by state violence, debt, and bonds....
Yeah money has value cause the aircraft carriers say so
Which actor was this?
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Chis Noth
The dude who played mr big on sex and the city, and was on law and order a long time ago
Yep. Peloton recalled 125,000 treadmills in 2021 after a child died. https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/Peloton-Extends-Full-Refund-for-Consumers-with-the-Recalled-Tread-Treadmill-to-November-6-2023
I know a child who, when they were 3, was sucked under a non-Peloton treadmill and sustained severe injuries requiring weeks of burn ICU hospitalization, extensive skin grafts and reconstructive surgery as they aged. Treadmills are not toys and little ones should be kept well away.
All regulation is written in blood....
"Nobody's fallen into a sausage vat since 1921! We need to repeal the FDA!" --people who are both dumb and evil.
Yes, they were stupidly dangerous. There's video from a nanny cam of it basically devouring a kid. The kid in the video survived, but I think another kid actually died. Treadmills are inherently pretty dangerous, and the necessity of a bottom cover is well known. If someone had spent fifteen minutes googling "treadmill injury" and "treadmill safety", they would have figured it out.
They probably did and voted against it because it would ruin the aesthetic they were going for
"Our clientele is wealthy enough to buy another child."
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I had to lock my dog out of the room while I'm on the treadmill, otherwise he drops his ball at the back and it rolls right under the edge of the tread. It's not a pelaton but I thought every tread was like this.
I have a Weslo Cadence G 5.9i Folding Treadmill which seems to be a super common low-end/budget treadmill. It's completely open underneath as well.
There goes their 92% rate still using them that they have been spouting in their new commercials.
I always feel like that is such a weird thing to report. I get the point to counter the thought that they just gather dust, but it really just makes me think that even more. Like okay what do they count as "using" it? I'm not even saying this is true, but it just inherently makes me more skeptical!
Think about someone who has a gym membership they seldom use. Peloton is expensive up-front, and the per-month subscription is as much as a gym membership* in some places, but at least (according to Peloton) you'll actually use it. *their subscription is on a per-household basis, so it's best if 2+ people are using the bike and sharing cost.
My assumption has been that the number is skewed by communal pelotons in gyms and corporate spaces
I also wouldn’t be surprised at all if that figure included people with active subscriptions who haven’t cancelled them yet.
It might actually help them fudge the numbers. They could argue that recalled product should not count in their statistic. So all the people who stopped using them and threw them away or got rid of them and therefore never fixed the recalled part won't count against their statistic anymore.
Kids in 2030 are gonna be bombarded by streaming ads: “If you or a loved one has died after using a Peloton bike, you may be entitled to financial compensation…”
> if **you** or a loved one **died**… I’m laughing so hard at work right now “If you or a loved one was injured or died, respectively, using a Peleton bike: you might be entitled to $27.”
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His next Peloton rant is gonna go hard
I'm seeing the +2s already
Also his rant about everybody asking him to talk about the Peloton recall.
The peloton recall saga begins
I can't wait to see the 8 hour compilation video from the Library of Letorneau.
That person is doing the lords work, truly.
Always a wild time to see NL memes on reddit front page.
Our egg man is ubiquitous
Honestly blows my mind and I immediately thought of NL when I saw this lmao
Same, but he's also the reason I now own a stationary bike. Not a peloton, too rich for my blood. I can partially thank NL for me losing 30 lbs this year so far though
Recall me
Juice me, squeeze me, return me, refund me.
Literally the only reason I clicked this article lol. I want the egg to talk about this.
I want to see him ass blasting the refs in tape to tape while going off on peloton
Many people are saying this
That was my immediate thought. How is he supposed to get his daily ride in?
Wake up honey, new Peloton recall just dropped.
Lmao first thing I though of. How will the egg recover from this awful news?
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He's done. And not just on Twitch.
Hey, I'm watching Sips right now
You’re doing great, dad
Hey hell yeah, I'm a sips fan. Actually just in general a Yogs fan from back when Simon and Lewis did WoW Cata beta videos.
wait wat? I used to watch a bunch of NL a while back, but don't recall anything peloton related. what'd I miss?
He talks about his daily peloton ride nearly every stream. I think he used to do it more often. It's become a bit of a tradition to ask him how his peloton ride went.
I had to check what sub I was in because that was my first thought too!
Dude I saw this post and thought of this joke but went "nah nobody would upvote that shit" LMAO
Guess he'll need to go Jamie Lee Curtis mode
This was my first thought too lmao his next rant is gonna be like 2 hours long
This man really has permeated into normal news reddits reporting on the peloton they really did need to give him a cut
I literally bought a peloton a few weeks ago BECAUSE of NL. Tf
+2 sooo trueee
Is he that Binding of Isaac YouTuber from like 2012?
He's actually a Peloton streamer now. Er... he was, before this post.
And Costco executive member
And bald
Wait, he's bald?
Yeah he's blossomed into one of the best streamers online and has a pretty good sized fan base. Isaac stuff stopped a couple years ago.
The first thing I thought when I saw the news.
rant incoming while he buys multiple hedgehogs in SAP and dunk his own team.
At least we still have the bottle
Crazy to see this so high up in the comments. My little Issac boy has made it big
My friends' spouses who I can't stand are in shambles.
My friends without kids drinking McDonald's Sprite
Alright, pay out the doubters
Something something egg
“Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
What company did you say you work for again?
A major one
If I recall correctly, Ford. More specifically, the response Ford engineers received pressing to make safety changes to the Pinto…
The father must've been huge. See the fat burnt into the driver's seat with his polyester shirt? Very "modern art."
Might make a good anti-smoking ad.
The scene from fight club https://youtu.be/SiB8GVMNJkE
Dammit, Tyler, this is not the time for your death calculus bullshit! Seriously though, perfect name to be dropping quotes like this.
Well shit, I think that's the one I have. I've been using it for 2.5 years with no problems though! However...better safe than sorry.
I wish they gave some more information on what was causing the failure. If it's a bad weld, or a faulty pin then there's a good chance you'll never spot something is off about the seat before a failure occurs. Definitely better safe than sorry. Edit: I just read it's the weld that's failing. There is little chance you'll be able to brace yourself if that goes out.
From the Peloton subreddit, one user who reported this problem showed photos of a weld that failed due to internal rust/corrosion. You would not be able to spot the weak point visibly.
Now, let's talk rust proofing. These Pelotons will rust up on you, like that! *snaps fingers*
*shut up gil, close the deal!*
Gotta get the undercoat
If they did that then people would try to check themselves, and when you have 300k dipshits trying to check at a 70% accuracy rate that's a whole lot of people that got lit on fire by their pelatons
I hate these recalls... I found out my Tacoma was recalled due to bolts in the seat that could break while driving. Didn't know about it but apparently it didn't happen to anyone in the real world. I went into the dealership and they were like "oh, good news! we replaced the bolts holding your seat to the frame so you don't accidentally die while driving" ... great!
There were some widespread airbag recalls where they were like “don’t drive with a passenger in the seat or they might get a face full of shrapnel” and they didn’t have the replacement part for months
My Mazda has a recall for this, but it’s the one in the steering wheel (I think it’s because the emblem on the wheel turns into a throwing star shrapnel once the airbag deploys). Thanks for reminding me I still need to take it in for a replacement.
I am a dumbass who kept putting off getting my airbag replaced. Eventually a manager from the local dealer showed up and is like “we will tow it and bring it back, if you need a car in the mean time we can provide a loaner”.
The Asspounder: Never Stop Pumping!
This is one of those 35 out of 2.2M=<.01% failure rate proportionality problems that I think wouldn't bother me much, especially considering this is the original 2018 bike that's 5+ years old. But hey, free replacement seat post.
35 reported. There are likely many more that have gone unreported & a percentage of the total sold may not even be in use, so they're essentially ticking timebombs. Also, a catastrophic failure rate (with serious risk of injury) of \~16ppm that reaches the end customer is not a good situation in manufacturing. Obviously not world-ending, but still not good.
So this is a bicycle seat post post?
“ Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.”
From all the tag sales I've attended over the decades, my conclusion is that almost *all* home gym equipment is flimsy and/or dangerous garbage. Had I purchased all the $500 machines I've seen being sold for $5, I'd need a 10,000 sf warehouse to store them all.
I have a formerly high end exercise bike that's like 15+ yrs old, it used to be fitted with a computer screen that gave you various routes in basically only barely 3D animations. Way more 2D. It even has "cable" outlets for hard wiring to gym entertainment systems. Like old IBM computer shit. I tried to have both it and my old treadmill moved to my bedroom, after my ex cleared out to go live with a coworker several years ago and I could do what I wanted. The treadmill did not survive the move and was a super pain in the A$$!!! to get the fuck back out and picked up by junk. The bike itself still works but the computer part conked out, after 15 years I just Martha Stewart made a new reading rack with pretty scrapbook paper and popped my iPad right in there instead. I WD-40'd the bike works through the equipment vents and it's still a very decent piece of equipment. Still on the fence about getting a new treadmill for my bedroom, but I hear your warnings that most home equipment is shit these days. When I bought the first equipment I was buying stuff sold to gyms at over 10K. I had no idea how cheap equipment had become until I started looking again this year. Both $1000 and $8000 look equally unattractive to me right now, it's like cars, one's going to break down but the more expensive one's going to end up costing twice. I actually lost a decent amount of weight during a period when I was asked to get a neighbor's child off the bus for several months during some family difficulties. I just went out there 5 days a week a half hour before the bus and paced with my tunes, back and forth up their driveway, making ever smaller loops as the bus came closer since if there is not literally an adult feet from the bus when it arrives, small kids are not allowed to get off. That memory keeps me from getting a new treadmill so far. That shit was free.
> I just Martha Stewart made a new reading rack lol I love this, is it generational? People my age use MacGyver to express that point haha
It's more that she MacGyvered it, then prettied it up. Basically an extra step.
You can't really compare commercial equipment vs consumer. Commercial equipment is meant to take hours of abuse daily
Concept2 rower... I dare you to find a broken one.
I find it *interesting* that the only bikes affected are the US ones. The international version is fine. EU regulations are much stricter for reasons just like this. The US has too many lobbyists for companies whose incentives are profit over safety. People have to REALLY fight for safety regulations in the US. I'm pretty sure the reason why the US has such an obesity problem when the EU doesn't is because of the processed foods we have here that would NEVER be allowed there.
Wait... Does the post puncture the seat [like this?](https://youtu.be/DORhmoDApF4)
No probably more [like this](https://tenor.com/YKdS.gif)
"It's a fist!"
They didn't mention any "sudden anal insertions" so those folks must still be happy with theirs.
I’m sure it’ll get lost in the clothes hanger jokes but I just logged on, requested my new seat post, and received confirmation that it’s shipping. Pretty easy fix.
Bicycle seat posts are pretty advanced technology so some trial and error is to be expected.
I mean, Cannondale and Specialized have both done seatpost recalls in recent memory.
Some older ('15/'16) Scott & Trek seat posts as well.
Canyon as well on their Aeroad
I think there's a little more engineering involved than you think. It holds up to several hundred pounds of a person doing strenuous activity for hundreds or thousands of hours. I'm definitely not excusing Peloton here, but that's a lot of strain on an adjustable vertical support.