First time visitors to this site,

Hello and welcome! StudioCycles.com. was started to bring education and solutions to an industry that is ripe with needs that are for the most part, are being ignored. How can something as simple as a commercial indoor exercise bike be such a pain in the ass? If they shrouded the entire bike in plastic like a treadmill, would things be different? If only the members would do a better job of cleaning the bikes after the class is over. If only the maintenance guy would learn how to repair and care for the bikes! We need new bikes! We need new bikes! We just got new bikes and they feel worse than the old ones!!!!! The pedals need to be adjusted! The seats are broken; the water cages are busted off!! The comments I hear could go on and on. I do what I do because I love to make a difference.

I was working at Beverly Hills Bike Shop back in the late 80's when I first met Johnny G, the actual creator of Spinning. He was a celebrity trainer and was himself training for the RAAM (Race across America). He was out on his bike constantly, away from his wife Jodie and their kids, and one day he decided he would find a way to train and still be close to his family. He got an old Schwinn exerciser and spent countless hours modifying the thing to replicate the feel of his actual road bike. He would come to the bike shop like a scientist with his laundry list; saying; "I need this" and "I need that". The man had a vision; he knew what he was shooting for. One day he finally found it. His baby was built. He got his deal with Schwinn, they perfected his vision and the Johnny G Spinner was born.

I immediately saw something apparently no one else did. I knew these bikes would not run perfectly without attention, care and proper maintenance. I started compiling data and info about the most common failures and occurrences with the bikes. I made my first maintenance check lists. Then Reebok came on board with their own bike, I did the same thing and provided tech support to Umbert at Fitness Associates, the creators of the "Cycle Reebok" program. I knew I had to put this information in a manual format. I added and subtracted information until I had what I thought was a basis for my first project. Then I got started. My manuals started as abstract concepts. As I picked up more and more work in clubs I saw a common thread. These facilities were treating their bikes like self cleaning ovens.

The solutions that you find in my manuals were not picked out of thin air. In most cases I developed these manuals through trial and tribulation. I've broken a lot of tools and made some mistakes along the way. But the content that you'll find in our manuals and on this site is tried and true. I look at a bike problem like you might at the Rubik's cube. I look at it from all angles, and try everything possible to boil the problem to its simplest form. Then it's on to the solution. What is the simplest, most effective way to deal with the issue at hand? And how can I convey this to a person who visits our site and reads our manuals? I've found a way and when I finished Volume 1 of "The Ultimate Tech Manual Series" I knew I was on to something big. Next came "The Smart Release Field Service Manual". There no one on the planet that I'm aware of that knows the ins and outs of the clutch system and its inherent personalities like I do.

I've been called to MAJOR fitness companies to teach their engineers how to work on this very system that's incorporated into their bikes. What does that tell you? We know our stuff. Volume 2 was put together for the newest offerings from Nautilus Schwinn Fitness. Volume 3 which was finished in late December/Early January 2004 covers the Star Trac V- bike as well as the newest Johnny G spinners by Star Trac. Volume 4 will be exclusive to the latest generation Star Tracs including the all new, all aluminum NXT's as well as the new Spinner Pro's and Spinner Elites. Volume 5, which is due out in the Spring/Summer of 2006 will deal with the Lemond Revmaster series of bikes. Finally, the "New Bike Set Up and Service Guide" will tackle the problems associated with "Slam Bam" assemblies and the break in period "Gremlins". I have a simple offer; if my products are NOT satisfactory to my customers, let me know and I'll cheerfully refund your money! There is a reason why some of the busiest facilities and the best companies choose us to find solutions to their problems. Come find out why!