Welcome to Episode 16 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week, we interview Dov Katz (#DovOps), who has made some open source tools for the Peloton community and lost 50 pounds over the last year, and cover the the following topics:

• Peloton will celebrate Thanksgiving with their annual Turkey Burn rides and runs. They will have special workouts all week for “Gratitude Week 2020”, as well as a virtual Turkey Trot this year
• Peloton is now teaching live Bike Bootcamps, and have made them their own category
• Peloton appears to have acquired technology and employees from Peerfit
• A class action lawsuit over the purge of classes in 2019 is being allowed to continue
• A new lawsuit against ICON (makers of NordicTrac) was filed by Peloton alleging theft of trade secrets
• Peloton’s other manufacturing partner, Rexon, is also building a new factory
• The “Not Taken By Me” filter was added to iOS, Bike, and Tread this week
• Android users got the ability to share workouts to their Instagram Stories
• A Metallica featured artist series occurred
• The first German-language artist series took place with Tim Bendkzo
• Peloton’s Head of Music, Gwen Riley, discussed how artist collaborations take place in an interview with Rolling Stone
• Jenn Sherman has a new signature series called “Cover to Cover”
• Leanne Hainsby also has her first signature series, called “Work It Out”
• A new collaboration with the Spotify “Hot Country” playlist took place
• Cody Rigsby, Ben Alldis, and Tunde Oyeneyin all have signed with agents
• Cody Rigsby has an interview with PopSugar
• Alex Toussaint had a promo video air at the start of NFL KickOff on Fox last weekend
• Emma Lovewell announced she is buying a new house
• Peloton has announced their Sessions beta trial is ending, but it should be back at some undisclosed date in the future
• We interview Dov Katz (#DovOps), who has made some open source tools for the Peloton community and lost 50 pounds over the last year

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 15 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week, we interview Barbara Wanner (#Wundermam), who was recently featured in the "We All Have Our Reasons" Peloton ad campaign, and cover the the following topics:

• Official availability dates for the new lower cost Tread were announced
• Amanda gets a demo of the new Tread – hear her review and comparison to the Tread+
• Tread is now available in showrooms for demo nationwide
• A Beyoncé featured artist series took place
• Beyoncé will form a multi year partnership with Peloton, including gifting free memberships to students at 10 HBCUs
• Peloton celebrated Veteran’s Day with some special classes on Tuesday
• Peloton has detailed some of the specific steps they are taking to address the Bike & Bike+ shipping delays
• A new trademark was filed that would allow Peloton branded cosmetics, cleaners, or other similar products
• Peloton further confirmed there would be no hardware discounts for Black Friday in the US & Canada through an email to some members
• Hannah Frankson and Sam Yo celebrated their one year Pelo-versary
• Ally Love had another interview with PopSugar, this time about her friendship with the other instructors, and what her favorite workout type is
• Aditi Shah celebrated a birthday this week
• Peloton Germany will celebrate their official one year anniversary this upcoming week on November 20th
• There’s speculation if Irene’s live ride on the schedule Friday will end up being an artist series ride
• There is a now a toll-free number (freephone) for Peloton Germany customer support
• We interview Barbara Wanner (#Wundermam), who was recently featured in the “We All Have Our Reasons” Peloton ad campaign

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 14 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week, we have an interview with Gareth Jones (#funkytastic), founder of the Leanne Hainsby facebook group “Yes 2 You Crew”, and cover the the following topics:

• Peloton has released a new “Sessions” feature, that allows friends to ride together and take any on-demand class with a fresh leaderboard, similar to how an encore class works.
• The company’s Q1 2021 earnings call & report were released on Thursday
• The new lower cost Peloton Tread should be available to try out in showrooms before Thanksgiving
• Peloton is suing the US government to try to be excluded from paying some tariffs on goods & parts made in China
• UK & German classes were still having buffering issues, and a community member started a project to try to gather & share data about the issue
• UK Showrooms will be closing due to the upcoming Lockdown 2.0 in the UK
• Live classes from the US were cancelled on Tuesday, and showrooms & support were closed, due to the US election
• Peloton Digital Android Users can now see workout graphs of completed classes through their app
• Themed music classes are coming to power zone rides in the next few weeks
• Chase Tucker celebrated a birthday
• Ben Alldis announced he was going to start hosting his own podcast
• Ally Love was featured in PopSugar again
• Jess Sims celebrated her 2 year anniversary with Peloton this week
• Leanne Hainsby was featured in YOU magazine
• We give a demo of the new Sessions feature in our Pelo Tips segment
• We interview Gareth Jones (#funkytastic), founder of the Leanne Hainsby facebook group “Yes 2 You Crew”

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 13 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week, we have an interview with Jaclyn McMillen (#JacMac_2020) of the Super Newbie Peloton Riders Facebook group, and cover the the following topics:

• Members in the UK & Germany have been running into buffering & network issues
• Peloton has shared the US & Canada won’t have Black Friday sales on the Peloton Bike, Bike+, or Tread
• A holiday season apparel drop took place this weekend
• Peloton’s annual shareholder meeting will take place on December 9th, with a proxy vote for 3 different items
• Chase & Peloton have teamed up to offer statement credits for Chase Sapphire cardholders
• The Kempinski hotel chain in Germany will have Peloton bikes available for guests upon request
• A new “Not Taken By Me” class filter showed up for Android users
• Peloton instructors are going all-in for Halloween this year, both during classes and on social media
• The new flash challenge “In The Zone” is taking place to get a badge for doing power zone training classes
• Kendall Toole held the first class of her new “Movie Buff” monthly series
• Peloton held 6 different classes for the “Bon Jovi” artist series
• Jenn Sherman & Denis Morton will teach a second set of classes for a Grateful Dead artist series
• Comedian & Musician Steve Martin had his bluegrass music featured on a yoga featured artist series with Kristin McGee
• Peloton CEO John Foley gave a brief interview at the Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Summit
• “Built in NYC” had a feature on what it took to design the Peloton Bike
• We interview Jaclyn McMillen (#JacMac_2020) of the Super Newbie Peloton Riders Facebook group

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 12 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week, we have an interview with Julia Katharina (#Jules_Katharina), founder of the GermanLadies Peloton Group, and cover the the following topics:

• Peloton is having delivery & shipping issues for the new Bike+
• The date for the Q1 2021 earnings call was announced this week
• The PSNY studio, as well as retail stores, will close for the US election
• A new partnership was announced with the DFB (German Football) Academy
• There’s a number of Halloween themed classes taking place next week
• The Jess King Experience is back for Season 2
• More Peloton Barre classes will be available, but not until 2021
• The “Train Smart” collection was updated to have meditation classes
• A new Emeli Sande artist series ride was announced
• Peloton is in court over their trademark with a coffee company
• Head of Marketing, Dara Treseder, was interviewed by LinkedIn
• Peloton lost out on the grand prize award for the AFP Pinnacle award to Drager
• A new “The Season To Move” apparel line launched last week
• Ally Love discussed a near fatal car accident she had as a child in Women’s Health
• Hannah Corbin discusses some different Barre workouts with InStyle
• Jess King was interviewed on “A Sweat Life” podcast
• Emma Lovewell made a short video for Thrive Global discussing her routine
• Both Matt Wilpers & Emma Lovewell are celebrating birthdays this week
• We interview Julia Katharina (#Jules_Katharina), founder of the GermanLadies Peloton Group

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 11 of Pelo Buddy TV. This week, we have an interview with Peloton community member Maggie Craig, and cover the the following topics:

• We received a tip new coaches will likely be announced in the next few weeks, and one of them is likely to be German instructor Cliff Dwenger
• ICON Fitness (maker of NordicTrack) has filed a lawsuit against Peloton
• A new Broadway Series was announced, and the first installment was the Hamilton Peloton classes
• Several other special classes were announced – Sundays with Love Season 2, the third chapter of “Ministry of Sound”, and a Viva Latino Spotify collaboration
• First generation Peloton pedals (on bikes purchased before June 2016) were recalled over a safety issue
• Peloton support stated that Bluetooth cadence sensors would stop working on Peloton digital, but that statement was later retracted
• Cody sat down for an interview with Hurdle podcast
• We interview Peloton community member Maggie Craig

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 10 of Pelo Buddy TV. This week, we have an interview with German Paralympic gold Medal winner and current Handbike world champion Annika Zeyen, and cover the the following topics:

• Peloton has a new ‘Field Testing’ Program/Community, for beta testing new features & products
• Jenn Sherman’s Yacht Rock ride was removed last weekend
• Peloton is growing their Mergers & Acquisitions team
• A new “Skip Intro” button is rolling out to the Bike, Tread, and web classes
• Apple TV app can now quickly swap between users
• Bluetooth heart rate monitor support was added to Amazon Fire TV and Android TV
• A few other small updates – new post-workout UI for rating classes, new class filters, and bike bootcamps no longer drop your average output during the floor sections
• Peloton UK will celebrate Black History Month
• Peloton’s first new ad campaign in months, “We All Have Our Reasons”, rolled out this week
• Official instructor GIFs were created this week
• Christine D’Ercole was featured on Insider.com in an article about 25 women accomplishing extraordinary goals
• Anna Greenberg has created a new yoga series on how to master the crow pose
• New featured artist series were announced – Alicia Keys and Celia Cruz
• Peloton celebrated German Unity Day with two special rides and a badge
• Interview with German Paralympic gold Medal winner and current Handbike world champion Annika Zeyen

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 9 of Pelo Buddy TV. This week, we have an interview with Daniel Lopez-Bonaglia (#DeutschlandPelo), and we cover the the following topics:

• Jess King is officially announced as a Peloton Tread instructor, confirming our reports from last month on Episode 3
• Peloton made several updates to their Strength program this week, including adding Ben Alldis to the team, and creating workouts from their new studio
• There was a new “Raise the Barre” Flash Challenge to promote Peloton’s new Barre classes
• A new iOS feature was added to allow you to see what workouts members of your leaderboard tags are currently taking
• A new “Stronger” apparel line was launched in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month
• Peloton has a new CIO, Shobhana Ahluwalia
• VP/Instructor Robin Arzon and Head of Music Gwen Bethel Riley sat down for a video interview with the Wall Street Journal
• The Association of Financial Professionals has Peloton as a finalist in their annual award
• GQ interviewed Alex Toussaint
• Cycling News has an article comparing Zwift and Peloton
• Leanne Hainsby celebrated a birthday this past week
• We interview Daniel Lopez-Bonaglia (#DeutschlandPelo) – Founder of Unofficial Peloton Deutschland FB Group

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 8 of Pelo Buddy TV. This week, we have an interview with Tony Sinkinson (#Sinko), and we cover the the following topics:

• Peloton has added Barre classes! We also discuss if Peloton boxing or kickboxing could be next
• Echelon claimed they were working with Amazon for an Amazon Prime Bike, but Amazon says that isn’t the case
• Several featured artist series workouts took place this week, including Keith Urban, Gregory Porter, and Anitta
• 4 new Bike Bootcamp classes were added to the library
• The Leaderboard has been added to classes taken via the Peloton website
• On the bike & tread, Peloton temporarily started removing people from the “Here Now” leaderboard as they finished their classes, but that change was reversed
• Robin Arzon has an interview with People magazine about her fit pregnancy
• Jess King is engaged
• Robin Arzon, Anna Greenberg, and Erick Jäger celebrated birthdays
• Peloton Germany had an Oktoberfest party
• We demonstrate how to watch YouTube videos on your Peloton bike or tread
• We interview Tony Sinkinson (#Sinko) about his weight loss journey with Peloton

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 7 of Pelo Buddy TV. This week, we have an interview with Christie Witherell (#CaffeineMama_RN), and we cover the following topics:

• Peloton held an investor & analyst call last week. Several interesting topics were discussed from possible new instructors, new workout types, the certified pre-owned program, UK & German Tread classes, and more!
• Bike bootcamps have launched with Jess Sims, Cody Rigsby, and Robin Arzon
• Apple is officially a Peloton competitor with their new Apple Fitness+ service that was announced with the new Apple Watch Series 6
• J Balvin is the next featured artist
• A new “Train Smart” strength collection has appeared to get people started with strength training & classes
• Peloton will be celebrating LatinX heritage month
• Former Peloton competitor FlyWheel filed for bankruptcy
• Peloton has extended the amount of warranty included in the Tread+
• Product review of the KBow Archery leaderboard names
• We interview Peloton rider Christie Witherell (#CaffeineMama_RN)

Let us know your feedback! You can contact us at [email protected] – we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways to improve the show, or what guests to feature in future weeks. Also, if you get a shoutout and would like to be featured in the community shoutouts segment of the show, send in a video clip of your shoutout to [email protected].