How we work
Rock The Bike can work with existing spin classes, either by using our bikes or retrofitting yours. By retrofitting your bikes, the experience of pedaling is the same as what you’re familiar with, but a sizable portion of the energy goes back into the grid.
However, there is a critical difference between a regular spin bike and the kind that Rock The Bike uses. Spin bikes generate heat by squeezing the wheel with what are essentially large, smooth brake pads. Participants make it feel harder or easier by adjusting a knob on their handlebars. In a Pedal Powered Spin Class, you can use any of our bicycle generators to allow participants to crank out usable DC power from the bikes. What makes it feel harder or easier is varying the amount of output load that is connected to the system. This can be as simple as flipping a switch and adding more wattage to the load at key moments.
You can either turn on additional lighting or dump increasing amounts of power back into the grid to vary the load. The latter allows pedalers to directly offset the energy consumption of the gym. As soon as you flip on that additional load, the Pedalometer will drop. Pedalers have to work harder to keep it in the green. Simple as that.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR EVENT
Cost
To do our best work, we need to know about your event. We calibrate our sound system, lights, and choose the number of bikes based on your audience size and age group. With your info we can offer our assurance that we’ll be able to create the event that you are looking for.
Please give us as much advance notice as possible. Our calendar fills quickly at certain times of year.