At final, your modern, new BODi Bike has arrived. Your sneakers are on tight, your towel and water bottle are shut at hand. You’re one hundred pc able to expertise the superior, completely customized, studio-quality at-home biking expertise that solely the BODi Bike and BODi Bike Studio biking can ship.
But earlier than you hit the digital street, you’ll wish to take a few minutes to ensure your new bike is correctly arrange and adjusted for you. This ensures you get an amazing exercise, most consolation, and diminished threat of harm.
How to Set Up Your New MYX Bike
If you’re going to spend hours within the saddle every week, it’ll assist to ensure your bike’s seat and handlebars are positioned correctly. Here’s absolutely customise your bike so it’s the proper match for you.
Seat top
The objective 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.
If your seat is greater or decrease than your palm, you’ll wish to alter your seat top accordingly.
To alter seat top:
- Find the pin situated on the base of the slide bar, and switch the knob till the seat put up loosens. Make positive to assist the seat along with your different hand as you pull out the pin and alter the seat top.
- Once you’ve discovered your required top, launch the pin so it engages within the right 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 going through ahead) and prolong your forearm to the entrance — your fingertips ought to simply barely graze the bottom of your handlebars.
To alter the seat ahead or backward:
- Locate the knob beneath the seat and loosen it to maneuver the seat to your required depth.
- Repeat the fingertip check to ensure the seat is correctly adjusted, then retighten the knob to ensure your seat is safe.
Handlebar top
The handlebars must be at seat top or greater. If you like a extra upright place (or if you happen to’re pregnant), you may wish to place your handlebars greater for higher consolation.
To alter the handlebar top:
- Have one other particular person assist the burden of the handlebars from beneath, then loosen the knob and pull the pin outward to disengage it from the place gap.
- Raise or decrease the bars to a cushty 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
For your consolation, you could wish to alter the depth of your handlebars utilizing the knob within the middle of the bars.
To alter the handlebar depth:
- Loosen the knob and slide the handlebars into the place that feels greatest to you.
- Once you discover the best spot, flip the knob again to safe the handlebars in place.
Before Getting on the Bike
One necessary security reminder: Make positive the realm round your bike is obvious of any obstacles that might get in the way in which. Keep kids, pets, and any objects away from the bike. When you’re pedaling, the wheels transfer quick and might 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 sneakers.
When it involves your footwear, we suggest biking sneakers for his or her improved stability and safety on the bike. Before buying biking sneakers, be sure that 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.
If you’re not sporting biking sneakers, stiff-soled sneakers strapped into the cages is an efficient different. If you’re sporting sneakers with laces, be sure that the laces are tied and tucked away. When all that’s performed, you’re able to get on the bike.
How to Safely Clip or Strap Into Your BODi Bike
The BODi Bike helps using both biking sneakers or regular exercise sneakers. Here’s safe your ft to the pedals.
Clipping in with biking sneakers
- Stand over the bike along with your ft on both facet of it. Make positive the pedal you’re clipping in to is in its lowest place, flat, and clip-side up.
- 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.
- Once you hear a second click on, you realize the cleat is safe. Once that’s performed, have a seat and safe the opposite shoe the identical method.
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 at a time, slowly attain down and pull the straps to tighten the pedal’s cage. You’ll need a comfortable match, however it 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 best really feel of your bike.
Seat top
Once your ft are safe, prolong one leg in order that that pedal is on the six o’clock place. What you’re on the lookout for is a slight bend within the knee of your prolonged leg.
- If the bend in your leg is just too huge, you’ll want to lift the seat.
- If your leg is straight with no bend in your knee, you’ll must decrease the seat.
Seat depth
Once your ft are safe, convey one foot to a ahead, three o’clock place — your kneecap must be over the middle of your foot.
- If 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 arms on the surface corners of the handlebars and examine to ensure you have a slight bend in your elbows.
- If your arms are straight, elevate the handlebars.
- If your arms are too bent, decrease the handlebars.
If you’re tall and your seat is all the way in which again and you are feeling you must 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. Once 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.
If you’re unclipping your biking sneakers:
- Make positive one pedal is at its lowest place. Twist your heel outward, then pull your foot up and away from the pedal.
- Next, pedal your different foot to the bottom place, inserting the primary foot flat on the bottom. From there, you’ll unclip your different foot.
If you’re sporting common sneakers,
- Make positive 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 all the pieces you must know to start out using your new BODi Bike! If you’re sharing this bike, we suggest noting your settings so you may shortly and simply reset your bike earlier than use.
See you at school!