{"id":560,"date":"2011-06-22T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:54:35","slug":"elliptical-bike-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Elliptical Bike Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a whole new and exciting category of bikes available thanks to a need and some good old fashioned yankee ingenuity!\u00a0 Elliptigo&#8217;s <strong>Outdoor Elliptical Bikes<\/strong> are now being manufacured and sold online and at selected retail outlets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_561\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Elliptigo_Elliptical_Bikes_sml.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-561\" title=\"Elliptigo_Elliptical_Bikes_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Elliptigo_Elliptical_Bikes_sml-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliptigo Elliptical Bicycles<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These machines can truely be called &#8220;bikes&#8221; or &#8220;bicycles&#8221; (they have 2 wheels and are self propelled) but they are really quite different than just about any other bike that has come before them. <strong>Elliptical Bikes<\/strong>\u00a0use the same design as indoor <strong>Elliptical Trainers<\/strong> but the pedals are attached to\u00a0the bike crank, chain, gears and wheel of a bicycle to allow you to get an excellent aerobic Elliptical Trainer\/ Running\u00a0style of workout &#8211; outdoors!<\/p>\n<p>I had an opportunity to ride and review the<strong> Elliptigo Elliptical Bikes<\/strong> recently and have just posted a couple of reviews on these new machines. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about-bicycles.com\/Elliptical-Bike-Reviews\/Elliptigo8C_Elliptical_Bike.html\">Elliptigo 8C\u00a0Review<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about-bicycles.com\/Elliptical-Bike-Reviews\/Elliptigo3C_Elliptical_Bike.html\">Elliptigo 3C review<\/a> for the details.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, these bikes are very easy to ride and provide an excellent, low impact, runner style workout. These bikes are especially well suited for <strong><em>cross training<\/em><\/strong> but I can see how some people may even like this kind of bike\u00a0just for the excitement of\u00a0trying something completely new and different and\/or for casual trips around town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was very impressed with the Elliptigo Elliptical Bikes and I think that we will be starting to see a lot more of these around very soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a whole new and exciting category of bikes available thanks to a need and some good old fashioned yankee ingenuity!\u00a0 Elliptigo&#8217;s Outdoor Elliptical Bikes are now being manufacured and sold online and at selected retail outlets. These &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,20,6,10,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}