# Do you use your exercise bike as a clothes horse? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416 "2010-11-21T05:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/1 "2010-11-21T05:40:07Z")
Admit it, you lazy slobs! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/2 "2010-11-21T05:46:17Z")
When my grandmother got to sick to use her exercise bike and treadmill she offered them up to her kids. My aunt took the treadmill, she figured she could keep more clothes on it then the bikeā€¦it later wound up as a storage area in my houseā€¦Itā€™s now comfortably holding clothes in my pregnant friendā€™s house. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/3 "2010-11-21T08:16:20Z")
Not even as a clothes horse. More like a dust collector. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/4 "2010-11-21T08:33:36Z")
Iā€™ve never seen one that wasnā€™t. Iā€™ve never seen one that has been used for more than 2 days either. Mine went into the newspaper small ads. (Instead I have a real bike that actually takes me places.) ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/5 "2010-11-21T08:42:25Z")
You donā€™t have an option for ā€œwhatā€™s an exercise bike?ā€ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/6 "2010-11-21T09:02:57Z")
Itā€™s not my exercise bike, itā€™s my husbandā€™s. But he doesnā€™t use it, and itā€™s close to the laundry room, soā€¦ Lovely place to hang a duvet to let it finish drying. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/7 "2010-11-21T11:26:04Z")
I store my exercise clothes on the seat, and my sweatbands on the handlebars, and even keep a few free-weights on the clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/8 "2010-11-21T14:44:50Z")
As someone who has exercised many hours almost every day for the last 45 years or so, Iā€™m getting a kick out these answers. I only feel good when Iā€™m moving. Everything else is waiting to get to the starting line. I never advise people to exercise. If people donā€™t enjoy it, donā€™t feel it in their bones, donā€™t torture yourself bothering with it. Sometimes people need to try exercising on a schedule to see whether they like it or not because a positive reaction could be triggered when they see and feel the benefits. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/9 "2010-11-21T15:29:55Z")
Nope. My husband tried to hang his jacket and hat regularly on my cardio cruiser, because he never saw me using it. I tried hanging his jacket and hat up, and telling my husband not to do that any more, and explaining that I usually use the thing in the dead of night or the middle of the day, when heā€™s not home. Still, he persisted. Until I took to dumping his jacket and hat on the floor. Then he mostly remembered, but he put his beloved NRA jacket on that CC one time too many, so I put the jacket in the trash. Bill does not understand subtlety. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/10 "2010-11-21T20:15:48Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Iā€™ve never seen one that wasnā€™t. Iā€™ve never seen one that has been used for more than 2 days either. Mine went into the newspaper small ads. (Instead I have a real bike that actually takes me places.) Come on over to my house. We have a spin bike that doesnā€™t get used every day, but during certain times of the year - like right now - gets used enough that Mr. Athena and I have to coordinate who gets to use it when. Itā€™s a great workout for when itā€™s too cold out to ride bikes outside and not enough snow to ski or snowshoe. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-your-exercise-bike-as-a-clothes-horse/561416/11 "2010-11-21T23:29:14Z")
Nope. Itā€™s in the basement nowhere near either the bedrooms nor the laundry room, so itā€™s not a convenient place for clothes. Plus we use it sometimes. Less in winter though, because the basementā€™s cold!