
#IS SPACEPLAN WORTH IT UPGRADE#
Still, the Tread is our Upgrade Pick over our Best Overall NordicTrack 1750, as it has a bigger screen and better studio-style programming, offers a more elegant, user-friendly design, and costs about $600 more. The Tread’s max speed is 12.5 miles per hour (mph), or about a 4:48 minute-per-mile pace, and its max incline is 12.5%-the same as the Tread+'s max speed and a little less than its 15% max incline. Both the Tread and the Tread+ have a max user weight of 300 pounds. This is a nice bonus for activating different muscles and varying the Tread+ workouts, but nothing most people expect from their treadmills.
#IS SPACEPLAN WORTH IT FREE#
The Tread is also missing one of the Tread+’s features, Free Mode, which allows you to disengage the motor and power the belt with your own feet by bracing your hands on the handlebars. Instead, it’s more “pared-down” than scrimped, with a slightly smaller screen at 23.8 inches (still more generous than most other treadmills) and a standard continuous nylon, 20-inch wide, 59-inch long belt (shorter, but not any less wide, than the Tread+’s belt). To call the $2,495 Tread a “downgrade” is not quite accurate, as pretty much all things Peloton creates are inherently fancy (and have the price tags to match). Last summer, the company announced that this treadmill would be rebranded as the Tread+ and introduced a lower-cost option as the new Tread. Peloton has sold a treadmill since 2018-a $4,295, spaceship-esque behemoth with a high-end, slatted 20-inch wide, 67-inch long running belt and a 32-inch touchscreen. Here’s what you should know about it, and if it could be worth it for you. Ultimately, we named it our Best Upgrade pick in our review of the best treadmills. In advance of the launch, Peloton sent one of its new Treads to Reviewed’s office, where I got a chance to run on it for a few weeks. The Tread+ is still pending investigation and remains off the market.įor most people, the word “ Peloton” means just one thing: That sleek, expensive, connected exercise bike that seems to show up everywhere, from your Instagram feed to the latest season of “ The Bachelor.” But the fitness brand has other things to offer too, like its standalone app, its high-tech, high-cost Tread+-and its slightly less expensive Tread. After a three-month wait, the Tread goes on sale on Monday, August 30 with an updated screen design to ensure it stays in place and a new passcode feature designed to prevent users from accidentally starting the machine-we haven't tested these features, but the rest of this review stands. But due to concerns concerns regarding the security and stability of the screen and a safety recall on the Tread+, Peloton delayed the release of the newer model. Editor's note: AugWhen we first published this in April 2021, the release of Tread was imminent.
