Exercise Bikes — Plan Views, One Elevation and Two Riders

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The row holds fifteen inserts spread across 25.2 m of drawing space: thirteen top views of exercise bikes — uprights with a small saddle and narrow bars, recumbents with a long wheelbase and a backrest, spin bikes carrying a heavy front flywheel, and dual-action machines whose handlebars swing — plus a side elevation of an upright bike with its spoked flywheel, and two elevations of riders, a woman leaning into a cross trainer and a man crouched over a spin bike. One stray line and a single note finish the file.

Cardio rows are the easiest part of a gym layout to get wrong, because a bike needs far less depth than a treadmill yet the same side clearance for mounting. Set these out at 1:50 in a fitness-suite plan, or at 1:100 across a whole floor, keeping roughly 600 mm between machines. The rider elevations earn their place in a section through a cardio deck, or in a presentation view where the equipment has to look occupied rather than empty.

Copy one bike out of the row rather than inserting the whole sheet; every machine is an independent insert and lifts cleanly. The header unit flag reads inches while the drawing is really millimetres, so a bike about 1.2 m long arrives as 1200 units. Rotate copies about a base point at the rear wheel to fan spin bikes around a studio floor, and delete the loose line first, or it will follow any crossing selection you make.

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