Exercise bike hire in Brisbane and the Gold Coast

People usually arrive knowing they want an exercise bike and not much more than that. The difference between the three matters, and it is mostly about your back and how hard you want to work.

A heavy flywheel and a road-bike riding position, built to be ridden hard out of the saddle. Fully adjustable seat and bars so you can set a proper position.

Cyclists, interval training, spin class at home

Hire terms are 1, 3 or 6 months. Prices below are for the machine delivered, assembled and collected — there is nothing else to pay.

Keep it longer, buy it and have the hire come off the price, or we collect it — collection is covered by the charge you already paid.

An exercise bike is the machine people most often buy and then stop using. Hiring one for three months tells you whether you will actually ride it, and if you decide to keep it we take the hire you have already paid off the purchase price. That applies to every hire, not just some of them.

Rent to own is arranged through humm. You apply through us, humm assesses it, and the machine is yours at the end of the term. Weekly rates over 24 months:

Aussie Fit JS-2000 — $10.00 a week
Aussie Fit JS-3500 Recumbent — $14.00 a week
F1 318 Commercial Spin Bike — $14.00 a week
Aussie Fit R9500 Recumbent — $15.00 a week
F1-8318LB Commercial Upright — $21.00 a week

The Aussie Fit U9000 is available to hire rather than rent to own. How rent to own works

Our own van, out of Yatala between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, usually within a few days. The bike comes in assembled and ready to ride, and we take it away again at the end at no charge. Outlying areas can still be covered — we will tell you what applies before anything is booked. Check your suburb

One, three or six months, and you can extend at any point. Most people start with three — long enough to know whether it has become part of the week or a clothes horse.

An upright is the classic stationary bike and takes the least space. A recumbent reclines you into a supported seat with a back rest, which suits bad backs and longer rides. A spin bike has a heavy flywheel and a road-bike position, made to be ridden hard.

A recumbent, almost always. The back rest takes the load off your lower back and the reclined position is far easier to get on and off. The JS-3500 is the one we send out most for rehab work.

Yes — the F1 318, a commercial spin bike with a 21kg flywheel, from $200 a month. It is the same bike a gym would put on its floor.

Less than people expect. An upright is roughly a metre by six hundred, a recumbent a little longer at about 1.4 metres. Leave a bit of room to get on and off. Not sure? Send us a photo of the room.

The F1-8318LB commercial bike is self-generating and needs no power at all. The others plug into an ordinary wall socket — nothing special, no extra wiring. Tell us the model and we will confirm exactly what it needs.

Yes, and the hire you have already paid comes off the price. We will either sell you the machine you have or swap it for a brand new one.

Yes, over 12 or 24 months through humm, from $10 a week. It is a purchase rather than a hire — you are paying the bike off and it is yours at the end.

It depends on your weight and how hard you are working, so rather than quote an average that fits nobody, we built a tool. The daily calorie calculator shows what a 30, 45 or 60 minute ride burns at your body weight, next to the same figures for a treadmill, rower and cross trainer.

Tell us the room, what you are training for and whether anything hurts. We have been matching people to machines since 2000 and we will tell you honestly which one suits.