Originally Posted by
Zachary Hoyt
We have an exercise bike that someone dumped in a ditch along our road frontage years ago. It works. I've never done any maintenance to it other than I might have oiled the chain when we first found it, I don't remember. It gets used occasionally in the winter. I don't find the seat comfortable, it's huge and wide. I agree with Jim Becker's suggestion, and the benefits of an actual bike. I am much more comfortable on my real bicycle, and like to ride it when practical, though there are months in the winter when I don't ride at all because of the snow and ice on the roads. In August of 2019 I had my longest bicycle day, 13 hours and 129 miles towing a trailer with a canoe on it, and camping things in the canoe. I had a fair wind that day which helped a lot, especially since I was gaining some altitude on my way from near Lake Ontario up into the Adirondacks.