Pre-orderNewAirStorm A1 Air Bike
An assault-style air bike where the fan is the resistance: pedal harder and it fights back harder, with no ceiling. Full-body intervals, arms and legs together.
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Air bikes: the fan is the resistance
An air bike makes resistance with a fan. Pedal harder, and the air pushes back harder: there are no levels to set and no ceiling to hit, which is why this style of bike, also called an assault bike or fan bike, is the standard tool for hard interval training. Moving handlebars bring your arms into every effort, so it works the whole body at once. This page explains the mechanic, is honest about the noise, and compares it properly to a spin bike, which we also sell. Our first air bike, the AirStorm A1, is on order now at £449 including VAT.
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The air bike in our range
Pre-orderNewThe AirStorm A1 is £449 including VAT and is available to pre-order: the first units are on order and it is not in stock today. Free UK delivery when it ships, a 2 year warranty and 14 day returns, and you can spread the cost with interest-free instalments with Klarna or Clearpay, subject to status.
What is an air bike?
An air bike is an exercise bike where the fan is the resistance. Your pedals and the moving handlebars spin a large fan wheel, and the air itself resists the blades: the faster you try to spin it, the harder the air fights back. Effort in, resistance out, with nothing to adjust.
That one mechanic explains everything else about the machine. There are no resistance levels, because your own effort is the dial. The resistance is unlimited, because air never runs out of fight. And the same bike suits a beginner and a hard trainer at the same time, because each rider meets exactly the resistance their own effort creates. On our AirStorm A1, a chain and belt drive carries that effort to the fan, and an LED display tracks time, distance, calories, speed and heart rate.
Is an air bike a good workout?
Yes, for short, hard work it is one of the best machines there is. Because the resistance meets your effort instantly, an all-out sprint gets an all-out fight back, and the moving handlebars mean your arms, shoulders and back share the work with your legs. That full-body demand is why air bikes are a fixture in CrossFit boxes and interval programmes.
The honest other half: it is not the machine for long, gentle, steady cardio. It is loud, the riding position is upright and workmanlike, and pedalling softly rather defeats the point of a bike whose resistance is your effort. For quiet daily cardio in front of the television, our classic upright bikes and space-saving folding bikes do that job better, for less money.
Is an air bike better than a spin bike?
Neither is better. They are two different machines for two different kinds of training, and we sell both, so we have no reason to flatter either one. The air bike is for full-body intervals: unlimited resistance, arms and legs together, short efforts that leave nothing behind. The spin bike is for riding: our Studio Pro S3 carries an 11 kg weighted flywheel that gives a smooth, road-like pedal stroke, and it is built to be climbed on out of the saddle to a class on your phone.
So the question to ask is not which bike is better, but which training is yours. If it is classes, longer rides, standing climbs and a road feel, buy the spin bike: browse our indoor cycling bikes and you will spend £170 less. If it is intervals, sprints and whole-body conditioning, the air bike is the right tool, and nothing else in our range replaces it. The table further down puts the two side by side.
Is a 10 minute air bike workout good?
Yes. Ten minutes on an air bike is a real workout, and that is the machine's whole argument: because the resistance scales with your effort, the intensity is available from the first second, with no levels to climb through. A simple honest session looks like this: 2 minutes easy to warm up, then 20 seconds hard and 40 seconds easy repeated 6 to 8 times, then 2 minutes easy to finish.
Keep the hard efforts genuinely hard, where a few words are all you can manage, and the easy spins genuinely easy. If you want more structure than that, our guide to exercise bike workouts builds the same interval logic into full weekly plans that work on any bike, this one included.
Can an air bike lose belly fat?
It can help you lose fat overall, but no machine can target belly fat, because you cannot spot-reduce: fat comes off the whole body through a calorie deficit kept up over weeks. An air bike's contribution is burning calories quickly in short sessions. For how the deficit actually works, read our guide to using an exercise bike for weight loss.
Who is an air bike for, and who should avoid it?
Buy an air bike if your training is intervals, conditioning or CrossFit-style sessions, if you want arms and legs working together, or if you are strong enough that ordinary home bikes run out of resistance on you. The AirStorm A1's steel frame is rated to 150 kg, the joint highest in our range alongside the bikes on our high weight-capacity page, and air bikes are common in gym and studio settings for exactly these reasons.
Avoid one if you need quiet. A fan bike is the noisiest style of cardio machine there is: moving air is the resistance, so the noise is the mechanism working and there is no quiet setting. It is also a big, fixed machine, 1293 x 592 x 1229 mm in the AirStorm A1's case, and it does not fold. In a flat, a shared house, or anywhere a sleeping child shares a wall, a near-silent magnetic bike is the honest recommendation, and we sell three: see the quiet magnetic bikes or browse the full range.
One more honest note. We ride every bike we sell and publish first-hand notes, and the AirStorm A1 has not landed yet, so this page makes no claims about how it feels to ride. When the first units arrive, our owner will ride it and we will add real testing notes here, exactly as we did for the other five bikes.
Air bike and spin bike, side by side
| Air bike (AirStorm A1) | Spin bike (Studio Pro S3) | |
|---|---|---|
| How the resistance works | A fan: air resists the blades, so effort in means resistance back | An 11 kg weighted flywheel you ride against |
| Resistance ceiling | None: it scales with you | Set by the bike's resistance range |
| Upper body | Yes: moving handlebars work arms and shoulders | No: fixed bars, legs do the work |
| Feel | Workmanlike: built to be attacked in bursts | Road-like: smooth stroke, stands up to climbs |
| Noise | Loud: moving air is the mechanism | Quiet |
| Best for | Intervals, sprints, full-body conditioning | Classes, longer rides, out-of-the-saddle riding |
| Price | £449 inc VAT, available to pre-order | £279 inc VAT, in stock |
Compare the whole range
Every bike we stock, side by side. All prices include VAT.
| Model | Type | Resistance | Max user weight | Folds | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FoldFit X1 Folding Exercise Bike | Folding | Magnetic, 16 levels | 120 kg | Yes | £179.99 | View bike |
| CityRide U2 Upright Exercise Bike | Upright | Magnetic | 120 kg | Yes | £149.99 | View bike |
| Studio Pro S3 Indoor Spin Bike | Spin | Weighted flywheel | 150 kg | No | £279.00 | View bike |
| DeskFit Mini Pedal Exerciser | Mini pedal | Adjustable knob | To be confirmed | Yes | £59.99 | View bike |
| ComfortGlide R500 Recumbent Exercise Bike | Recumbent | Magnetic | 150 kg | No | £549.00 | View bike |
| AirStorm A1 Air Bike | Air | Air / fan, unlimited | 150 kg | No | £449.00 | View bike |
All prices include VAT. Max user weight is taken from the supplier specification. Where a figure still reads "To be confirmed", we will publish it as soon as the supplier confirms it.
Air bike questions, answered
What is an air bike?
An air bike is an exercise bike where a large fan is the resistance. Pedalling and pushing the moving handlebars spins the fan, and the air resists the blades, so the harder you work, the harder it pushes back. There are no resistance levels to set, and the handlebars mean it works your arms and legs together.
Is an air bike a good workout?
Yes, for hard interval work it is one of the best there is. The resistance scales with your effort, so all-out sprints meet all-out resistance, and the moving handlebars pull your upper body into every rep. It is less suited to gentle steady cardio, where a quieter upright or recumbent bike is more comfortable.
Is an air bike better than a spin bike?
Neither is better; they are built for different training. An air bike suits full-body intervals with unlimited resistance. A spin bike, like our Studio Pro S3, suits out-of-the-saddle studio riding with a smooth, road-like feel from its weighted flywheel. Buy on the training you actually do.
Is a 10 minute air bike workout good?
Yes, and that is the point of the machine. Because the resistance meets your effort instantly, ten minutes of intervals on an air bike is genuinely hard work: for example 20 seconds hard and 40 seconds easy, repeated ten times, inside a short warm-up and cool-down.
Are air bikes loud?
Yes. A fan bike is the noisiest style of cardio machine, because moving air is the resistance: the noise is the mechanism working, and there is no quiet setting. If you need quiet, a magnetic exercise bike is near-silent and the better choice for a flat or shared house.
Can an air bike help you lose belly fat?
It can help you lose fat overall, and no machine can target belly fat alone: you cannot spot-reduce. An air bike burns calories quickly, and weight loss comes from a calorie deficit kept up over weeks. Our exercise bike weight loss guide covers how that works.