When we first heard about the Treadmill Bike we were convinced it was a joke. After all, why the need to combine a treadmill with a bike? Couldn’t you just run outside? Running on a tread to move a device not only seem counter productive but it sort of seems incredibly silly too. But in fact it is a real device, and one that has been getting a fair amount of attention lately.
The truth is that most stories about it ask the same exact questions we’re asking, which is why you couldn’t just go running instead. Apparently the benefits of the device are that it offers (according to the official website) “the benefits of running on a convention treadmill but outside.” The Treadmill Bike thus further protects “your feet from dirt and other contaminants commonly found on the earth’s surface.”
So in other words it is meant for those extreme germ-phobes and those small minority of people who don’t see a treadmill as a sad alternative to running outside. We’re fans of innovation and technology, but there is a reason there are bicycles and there are running shoes. The two have worked fine on their own for years, and are activities that just seem so mutually exclusive to do at the same time. The result is that this is one technological advance that doesn’t put its best foot forward.
Treadmill Bike at the Bicycle Forest
[Via: American Health & Beauty: The Latest (and Weirdest) Fitness Gadgets]