SADDL

SADDL is a mobile fitness application that combines the world of skill-based gaming with stationary exercise bikes—users can win prize money while getting fit. The application collects data from the bike via Bluetooth (power, cadence) and translates it to a racing environment on screen where users compete with one another from their respective locations. As fitness equipment has developed to become compatible with apps, the evolution of “connected” exercise experiences—to hardware and to... community—has become possible. Initially available on the Keiser M3i and Echelon Smart Connect bike platforms, SADDL provides the users with a multitude of racing options: public racing competition, challenges with friends, and a training feature. Challenges let users select up to 9 friends to send a direct cash challenge and each of them have the option to accept or decline. Through an easy-to-use and intuitive user experience, they can select their race parameters including race title, entry fee, track, race distance, payout structure, and how long the participants have to complete their race. After all users have accepted the challenge the race opens for this predetermined amount of time, allowing participants to submit their times on their own schedule. Users that have submitted their times will show up on the screens of subsequent participants as “replay riders” for them to race against, creating an immersive and competitive asynchronous racing environment. Our public race technology will offer a similar but different user experience. Subscribers can register to enter a public race against unknown participants and must submit their time within the allotted duration or face a cash penalty. If they beat their personal time (shown as a replay rider on screen) then they are entitled to an evenly distributed portion of the cash penalties of those participants that failed to submit their time. These pieces of our technology come together to solve the customers’ demand for alternative fitness. By building this platform we put the power of competition in the users’ hands and they’ll be excited to see the results.More