Got a New BODi Bike? Here’s How to Set It Up

Ultimately, your glossy, new BODi Bike has arrived. Your footwear are on tight, your towel and water bottle are shut at hand. You’re one hundred pc able to expertise the superior, completely personalised, studio-quality at-home biking expertise that solely the BODi Bike and BODi Bike Studio biking can ship.

However earlier than you hit the digital street, you’ll wish to take a few minutes to verify your new bike is correctly arrange and adjusted for you. This ensures you get an awesome exercise, most consolation, and diminished threat of damage.

Find out how to Set Up Your New MYX Bike

Should you’re going to spend hours within the saddle every week, it’ll assist to verify your bike’s seat and handlebars are positioned correctly. Right here’s the right way to totally customise your bike so it’s the proper match for you.

Seat top

The aim on this step is to set your seat to the peak of your hip bone.

• Stand subsequent to your bike seat along with your ft flat on the ground. Then, elevate the knee that’s closest to the seat, and place your palm on the highest of your thigh, at your hip.

In case your seat is increased or decrease than your palm, you’ll wish to modify your seat top accordingly.

To regulate seat top:

• Discover the pin situated on the base of the slide bar, and switch the knob till the seat submit loosens. Ensure that to assist the seat along with your different hand as you pull out the pin and modify the seat top.
• When you’ve discovered your required top, launch the pin so it engages within the appropriate place gap, and tighten the knob till you hear a click on to safe it in place.

Seat depth

Place your elbow on the nostril of the seat (the half dealing with ahead) and lengthen your forearm to the entrance — your fingertips ought to simply barely graze the bottom of your handlebars.

To regulate the seat ahead or backward:

• Find the knob beneath the seat and loosen it to maneuver the seat to your required depth.
• Repeat the fingertip take a look at to verify the seat is correctly adjusted, then retighten the knob to verify your seat is safe.

Handlebar top

The handlebars ought to be at seat top or increased. Should you favor a extra upright place (or for those who’re pregnant), you may wish to place your handlebars increased for better consolation.

To regulate the handlebar top:

• Have one other particular person assist the load of the handlebars from beneath, then loosen the knob and pull the pin outward to disengage it from the place gap.
• Increase or decrease the bars to a snug place, then launch the pin to have interaction within the place gap on the top of your selection, and tighten the knob to safe it in place.

Handlebar depth

To your consolation, you could wish to modify the depth of your handlebars utilizing the knob within the middle of the bars.

To regulate the handlebar depth:

• Loosen the knob and slide the handlebars into the place that feels greatest to you.
• As soon as you discover the proper spot, flip the knob again to safe the handlebars in place.

Earlier than Getting on the Bike

One essential security reminder: Ensure that the realm round your bike is evident of any obstacles that would get in the best way. Hold kids, pets, and any objects away from the bike. Once you’re pedaling, the wheels transfer quick and may be harmful if obstructed.

The BODi Bike’s pedals are twin entry. One facet options cages, which is able to work with any train shoe, whereas the opposite facet is embedded with SPD clips, that are made particularly for biking footwear.

In relation to your footwear, we advocate biking footwear for his or her improved stability and safety on the bike. Earlier than buying biking footwear, make certain they’re suitable with SPD clips, and remember to observe the directions that got here with them to correctly set up the cleats to the underside of every shoe.

Should you’re not carrying biking footwear, stiff-soled sneakers strapped into the cages is an efficient various. Should you’re carrying sneakers with laces, make certain the laces are tied and tucked away. When all that’s performed, you’re able to get on the bike.

Find out how to Safely Clip or Strap Into Your BODi Bike

The BODi Bike helps using both biking footwear or regular exercise footwear. Right here’s the right way to safe your ft to the pedals.

Clipping in with biking footwear

• Stand over the bike along with your ft on both facet of it. Ensure that the pedal you’re clipping in to is in its lowest place, flat, and clip-side up.
• Together with your foot on the pedal, slide the lip of the cleat down into the pedal, till you hear a click on, then press your heel down.
• When you hear a second click on, you recognize the cleat is safe. As soon as that’s performed, have a seat and safe the opposite shoe the identical approach.

Strapping in with sneakers

• Stand over the bike along with your ft on both facet of it.
• Place one foot within the pedal’s cage, with the widest a part of your foot over the axis of the pedal, then sit down in your bike. Place the opposite foot within the different cage.
• One by one, slowly attain down and pull the straps to tighten the pedal’s cage. You’ll desire a cosy match, but it surely shouldn’t really feel uncomfortably tight.
• Thread the surplus strap by means of the clip and, if desired, tuck it away.

Testing Your Bike’s Settings

These are some cues to search for when figuring out the proper really feel of your bike.

Seat top

As soon as your ft are safe, lengthen one leg in order that that pedal is on the six o’clock place. What you’re in search of is a slight bend within the knee of your prolonged leg.

• If the bend in your leg is simply too huge, you’ll want to lift the seat.
• In case your leg is straight with no bend in your knee, you’ll must decrease the seat.

Seat depth

As soon as your ft are safe, convey one foot to a ahead, three o’clock place — your kneecap ought to be over the middle of your foot.

• In case your knee is in entrance of the ball of your foot, you’ll want to maneuver the seat again.
• If the ball of your foot is in entrance of your knee, you’ll want to maneuver the seat ahead.

Handlebar place

Place your fingers on the surface corners of the handlebars and test to be sure you have a slight bend in your elbows.

• In case your arms are straight, elevate the handlebars.
• In case your arms are too bent, decrease the handlebars.

Should you’re tall and your seat is all the best way again and you are feeling you could transfer the handlebars farther away from you, you may make that adjustment by loosening the knob on prime of the handlebars and sliding them away from you to succeed in your required depth. As soon as it’s in place, retighten the knob.

Getting off Your Bike

To get off your bike safely, unclip or uncage one foot at a time.

Should you’re unclipping your biking footwear:

• Ensure that one pedal is at its lowest place. Twist your heel outward, then pull your foot up and away from the pedal.
• Subsequent, pedal your different foot to the bottom place, inserting the primary foot flat on the bottom. From there, you’ll unclip your different foot.

Should you’re carrying common sneakers,

• Ensure that one pedal is at its lowest place. Loosen the cage’s strap, then slowly slip your foot out and to the bottom.
• Repeat this on the opposite facet.

Congratulations! That’s every part you could know to begin driving your new BODi Bike! Should you’re sharing this bike, we advocate noting your settings so you may shortly and simply reset your bike earlier than use.

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