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Anonymous10/01/25, 20:09No.2948203upstairs neighbor's exersize bike vibrating the house
upstairs neighbor bought an exercise bike that is vibrating the whole house and my ears for 90minutes at a time.
i live in a 100year old house/apartment with roommates and we are underneath another 5roommate apartment/flat. the house has really good sound proofing as i almost never hear the neighbors upstairs, maybe i hear their dog trampling around from time to time. well i woke up at 8am one morning to loud cyclic vibrating above my bed. sounds a lot like a fridge with a bad compressor ...or a flywheel. i had to get out of bed and do my morning routine in living room. very annoyed, i searched reddit for folks with similar issues, it seems a lot of people complain about neighbors upstairs making noises with treadmills and exercise cycles as well as a lot of upstairs folks asking if its okay to buy/use treadmill/cycle and the general consensus was that its an asshole move.
when the noise ended i knocked on neighbors door and told her its really loud and very bothersome, she seemed somewhat responsivell and sympathetic. i suggested returning it and buying one without a loud flywheel - she said she would just not use it first thing in the morning, i then asked if she could at least heavily pad under the machine. well its the next day and it sounds she has ass padding dulled the noise a bit but the vibration is still incredibly bothersome.
any suggestions on how to proceed forward? i can try an drown out the noise with loud music but that will affect other folks in the house hold. i was thinking i could ask her to stand in my bedroom/livingroom while her roommate pedals the bike so she knows how loud it is. is it the flywheel making the noise? is anyone here educated in flywheels, house vibrations, etc? are there exercise bikes that dont have loud flywheels? id reallly hope i could convince her to trade it in for a different model. is this something i could ask my landlord to intervene with? do i have a valid complaint or do i just need to get over it?
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Anon10/01/25, 20:19No.2948204
also when i first moved in, i was drunk and loudly made a comment about her bicycle being walmart quality and shes been stank eying me since *cry* ive tried to be polite as possible since. her car is covered in duct tape from windows to headlights and seemingly everything inbetween.bonus question. when i google search images of a exersize bike, the pages slowed down my phone to a crawl. how did that happen? massive website bloat?
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Anon10/01/25, 20:29No.2948205
I'm not sure if this is the case but it is possible the vibrations from the flywheel are being translated to the floor and then to you. I kind of doubt it but the solution isn't expensive. Get a specific mat for under exercise bikes. They are a stiff foam mat that has just the right amount of bounce to absorb the vibrations. Thick cotton like a quilt won't do it as I believe your neighbor tried. Split the cost with her (they are like $40 last I looked) and you will make a friend. A friend who will soon have a very nice butt for you to stare at.
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Anon10/01/25, 21:16No.2948212
Maybe she could get one with magnetic resistance but I've had one similar to what you've got pictured and it wasn't very quiet after the bearing failed. My current Schwinn has a pad for resistance and squeals a lot even if I try to maintain/oil it. The belt also shredded and started causing a clunk when the bad part hit the pulleysand I had to change it because it got annoying for me.
In short, aside from Kaiser and maybe Peloton, they're all trash and I'd give up on improving it and instead try to decouple it from the floor, even if I had to test and build a platform for it.
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Anon10/02/25, 00:57No.2948254
>op thinks it's the exercise bike
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Anon10/02/25, 16:02No.2948347
Buy a thick yoga mat and put the bike on the yoga mat. I always did that with my rower. Might have helped but never asked the people downstairs. They never complained though.
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Anon10/09/25, 00:26No.2949716
>upstairs neighbor bought an exercise bike that is vibrating the whole house
I saw that movie, it was a funny
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Anon10/15/25, 04:32No.2950917
neighbor did something that made it a bit quieter and then a few days later did something to it where it was much much quieter. still cant be in my room when it happens, but i can drown it out with moderate/loud music in the living room