Unboxing the VeloNix Smart Bike

Decent peel. It's for you

Pressure. Pressure? Jeff wants pressure. So you guys might recall recently I made a video on a Speedians product

These guys do high-tech fitness gear. It was called the Gym Monster 2 and it was a resistance-based system

Very sleek, high-tech, a display with guided workouts. This is their exercise bike. Same company

This is called the Velenix and it has some pretty high tech stuff with it, including to start this magnetic drive unit, which might make it a little bit safer in environments where you have young kids and you don't want to have any kind of moving parts

The entire thing has a really modern look to it. One of the nice touches is the fact that you can plug the power cord either into the back or the front

As far as the unboxing experience is concerned, it's really easy to put together. It starts upside down

You put the feet on the main unit. Essentially you screw in the feet, flip it over, and that's pretty much it

I mean you have to clamp this display on as well. Screw that down and you're pretty much good to go

From an ergonomics perspective, there's a lot of different places to grip up front

You have adjustments for your gear ratio as well as your gradient or your incline

Some other cool things about the hardware, obviously adjustable seat and also adjustable front to back

The pedals you might notice are pretty streamlined for an exercise bike

However, those are replaceable as well if you wanted to go with something custom or something that can keep your foot held in place

We've also got adjustment up front for the handlebars if you want to elevate those

Another cool thing, this LED light, which is responsive to the power output

So the amount of input that's coming from your legs will actually change the color of this light all the way up to red for like the maximum amount of power input

You probably also notice that you have a quarter inch thread here. This is so you can mount your own devices whether it be a phone or your very own tablet and there a USB on the front which you can plug into in order to keep that device charged up considering the fact that this one is plugged into the wall you also have a water bottle holder the display is large 21 inches with a big speaker unit on the bottom and it going to surprise you

the amount of sound output that you get out of this speaker the other thing about this display

is that it swivels you can see i can adjust the angle here whatever is comfortable for me power

button but it puts the display to sleep and then it wakes up really quick if you hit it again so

So it's not like a complete shutdown. You can tap the screen to wake it up as well. And you've also got dedicated volume buttons here for that speaker

In some circumstances, if you're doing one of these rides, like cycling in Northern Europe

then the gradient or the incline is determined by the actual scenic ride

You have these races that you can participate in. And then obviously you have your guided exercise as well

Well, let's just jump on it and I'll show you guys what it's like to ride. Decent peel

It's for you. So here's my coach, Coach Jeff in this case

This is pretty straightforward stuff. Here we get it going, get it spinning. You can see my heart rate is now displayed on the screen

and on the Apple Watch. So this is the Speedience app on the Apple Watch

It'll show my distance, travel, calories burned, and BPM as well. So we got a lot of data down here on the bottom

that we can follow, and you can't really hear him that much. I'm gonna swipe down from the top

Here we have our total sound output. Now we can adjust the amount of voice guidance relative to music

Pressure. Pressure. Jeff wants pressure. Decreasing sprint intervals, sprints to climbs now

You'll also notice that there's a pro badge on some of these. So they do have a subscription, but the subscription just enhances the bike

It's not necessary to use it, which is good considering the bike itself already has an

expensive price tag to begin with. So you can use it out of the box as it is

And what you notice is like this one sprints to climbs 28 minute intermediate workout it included This is not part of the pro subscription So there options there for you If you don want to have a subscription if you do it like 15 bucks a month So in here we can see the recommended cadence

for this workout, the training gradient, the calories will burn, and obviously the duration of that workout as well

There's a few different instructors to choose from. And as you scroll, it just populates. Like you can basically pick

whatever type of workout you want to do. The scenic rides are also cool. And what's cool about these is the amount of power

that you're putting into the bike is reflected in the scenic ride so you're actually moving more

quickly through that ride the frames are refreshing faster in order to mimic what it would be like to

be going faster on that particular ride so i'm just noticing here it has the automatic

gradient it sets auto mode so the resistance is changing throughout the ride without me doing so

but i can turn that off and then just select manually if i prefer and these are actual rides

And so Greenheart Cycling Adventure is a beginner exercise in the Netherlands

You can see the actual map of where this has been recorded. From there, we have a separate section for stages

We could do group competitions in here. You can see these are like massive 13,000 foot climb

And then there's like leaderboards and you can compete with people. We can pick France, Spain, Italy

So if you're a more advanced cyclist, you're probably going to like this section. I like this section because I'm more of a beginner when it comes to cycling

and I like the idea of being able to watch my own content too. And that's where this differentiates itself

from some other popular brands. You can see you have a whole YouTube page. You can watch YouTube, you can watch Netflix

and just get your ride going. Now, this is in full screen mode

If I'm doing the Apple Watch integration, I can still see those specifics while I'm watching my video

And obviously I can still manually control the amount of resistance. I can still see my metrics displayed down below

So I can have that menu drop down if I choose and then I just got some quick settings to choose from

or I can bump it back up and I can see my speed, cadence

the training zone that I in my power watts the gradient gear ratio and even my left and right leg output And then I can just drop that down if I want to maximize my video that I watching

but at least I'm getting a little bit of feedback to let me know that I'm actually working hard

while I'm watching whatever it is that I want to watch. Obviously, the display is completely touchscreen

so even things like gear ratio and gradient, we can control directly on the screen

instead of using the hardware buttons if that's easier. There's also integration with Zwift

which is not something that I've used, but it's kind of like a video game for cycling

So you can download that, install it on here. Basically, you have like a virtual cycling game that you can compete with friends in

And obviously your inputs here are reflected within the game. So that's pretty cool

Last up, you have your progress over time, different badges that you can unlock. It'll show you the total amount of ascent that you've traveled

your total power output, calories burned, things like this. You can set goals for yourself

You can share this progression with others, challenge others based on it

Basically keeps tabs on everything that you've accomplished in order for you to, I guess

better set your goals into the future. So you have it. That is the Speedians Velonix

Actually kind of a beautiful design. It really looks inspired by road bikes

And if you've got something in your space, you're going to stare at it all the time. It's nice that it's sleek

And the other thing I like about it is it doesn't require a subscription. That's key. In 2025, we have so many subscriptions

I like the way they've done it where it's an extra. If you want the extra stuff, you can pay for it

but the thing is full featured out of the box without the need to sign up for anything more

And that's kind of nice and unusual in 2025. Now this thing is targeted at professionals

It has all that really enhanced data, if that's what you're looking for

but it also works perfectly fine for beginners too. People like myself that might want to watch

our own content on the display, Netflix, YouTube, all that streaming stuff is in there

And then of course you've got the more advanced stuff like those guided workouts. And of course the countryside rides

there's a lot of stuff to explore in there. Anyway, there it is. That is the Speedians Velenix