Okay, so, I probably screwed up this morning. I was answering overnight work emails (usually my least favorite part of the day which I was I just get it over with but I'm in a bad mood while doing it) and my wife approaches me with a grin saying she found something for her birthday.* She tells me it'll benefit both of us. I immediately think, "it's some sex thing (obviously that's fine) or, wait, watch it be some really expensive thing her sister has that we'll never use." Sure enough, it's the latter. And I make the mistake of scoffing and I say something like, "no, that's crazy expensive and I have no confidence in us that we'll ever use it."
Obviously I immediately regretted the response but I couldn't take it back and she complains that I'm not being supportive of her efforts to be healthier. I try to rationalize with her and point out that we have multiple gym memberships (yes, multiple, by her choosing - that she doesn't use and I use sometimes but not enough to justify two) as well as actual bikes and we live in an area that has some of the best biking/running trails in the country. These points go over like lead bricks.
So, I have pretty much deduced that I need to go home and have a better conversation about this peloton. My wife, who I love dearly, does have a history of requesting relatively pricey things for her birthday/Christmas that don't get a lot of use (e.g. fancy sewing machine, fancy KitchenAid mixing bowl, a previous treadmill) and, unfortunately, I have little to no faith that this bike will be regularly used by either of us and when I ask to cancel the monthly subscription it'll be ridden the next day or two to prove me wrong and then it'll stop again and the cycle (ha!) continues. And I'm just going to be mad that basically a few billable increments per month are a complete waste of time for me.
So, with the above in mind, I did some homework here at work and an Echelon EX3 seems like a happy medium where it's about 1/2 the price and the yearly membership is about the same as a one month to peloton. Anybody have experience with this particular or, on this topic, advice in general?
*I'd note that: 1) We generally don't do birthday gifts - or, at least, we don't do material things; and 2) We're already going on a family trip with her family that isn't cheap (and is a trip that she knows is generally unfun for me) but is what she wanted to do for her birthday. Just pointing this out so it doesn't sound like I'm some sort of an *******.