Does the Yosuda indoor cycling bike hold up for daily use?

It does the job for under two hundred, but the seat is the compromise and nobody selling it wants to say that out loud. The Yosuda indoor exercise bike, the 002, went into the spare room after I gave up on finding a used one that wasnt either seized solid or three hours away.

Assembly ran about an hour for me, which is longer than the fifteen minutes some people claim, though most of that was me checking the numbered parts twice over. Packaging was genuinely good, everything labelled, no missing hardware. The whole thing weighs a fair bit, somewhere around twenty seven kilos, so get the box into the room you actually want it in before you open anything.

Pedalling is smooth and quiet, quiet enough that I ride early without waking the house, which was the main thing I was after. Resistance is friction rather than magnetic, so there is a faint rubbing noise as you wind it up, and i think that will only get louder as the pad wears down. The frame is stable under me and it is rated to three hundred pounds, so no drama there.

The seat is the problem. Fine for twenty minutes, uncomfortable past forty, and the reviews are full of exactly the same complaint. A gel cover got bought for mine in the end and I would factor that in rather than pretend it away. It takes up very little floor space for what it is, which surprised me, since the photos make it look like a full studio setup.

Putting it next to a Peloton is silly and I dont know why people keep doing it. This is a basic stationary bike for home workouts with a bracket for your phone, no touchscreen, no classes, and the display it does have is the usual cheap LCD. For the money that trade seems fair to me, but going in expecting a studio bike is how you end up annoyed.

Anyone found a saddle that fits this frame properly?