OpenRide

OpenRide is a free, independent workout app for the Peloton Bike (Gen 2). It replaces the screen you normally see when you turn on the bike with a similar-feeling experience — live stats while you ride, a library of free cycling videos, and a history of all your past rides — without needing a Peloton subscription.

It's installed using a free tool called OpenPelo, which lets you add apps to the bike's tablet. This doesn't require rooting the device or unlocking anything permanently.

What it does

• Live stats while you ride — cadence, resistance, power, and speed, pulled straight from the bike itself, with no subscription required
• A profile for everyone in the house — each rider gets their own name, picture, and workout history
• A library of free classes — a constantly-updating selection of cycling videos pulled in automatically, so there's always something new to ride to
• Ride history and personal bests — a calendar of every past ride, plus your all-time best output, cadence, and duration
• Export your ride data — download any ride as a file (FIT, TCX, or CSV) to keep or use elsewhere, so your data is always yours
• Heart-rate strap and Bluetooth headphone support — pair a heart-rate monitor, and headphone audio just works once paired

Getting the app

OpenRide isn't available in an app store — you install it onto the bike's tablet yourself, either by downloading a ready-built APK from GitHub or by building it from this repo. This does take a little technical setup, but the steps below walk through everything.

What you'll need

• A Peloton Bike (Gen 2), with OpenPelo already set up on it. OpenPelo is what gives your computer the ability to talk to the bike's tablet — set that up first, following its own instructions.
• A computer with adb installed (this is Android's device-connection tool, part of the free "Android SDK platform-tools" download).

Step 1: Get the APK

Option A — download it (recommended): grab the latest openride-real-*.apk from the Releases page and save it somewhere on your computer.

Option B — build it yourself: if you'd rather build from source, you'll also need Java 21 and a copy of this repo (git clone, or download it as a ZIP from GitHub and unzip it). Then, in a terminal opened to that folder:

./gradlew :app:assembleDebugReal

This compiles OpenRide into an installable file at app/build/outputs/apk/debugReal/app-debugReal.apk.

Step 2: Install it on the bike

Connect to the bike's tablet with adb (per OpenPelo's instructions), then run (substituting whichever APK path you ended up with above):

adb install -r app-debugReal.apk
adb shell am start -n dev.digitalducktape.openride.real/dev.digitalducktape.openride.MainActivity

The app should open to a profile selection screen — you're in.

From here, making OpenRide the screen that greets you when the bike turns on, and making sure a software update doesn't undo any of this, are covered step-by-step in docs/INSTALL.md. Please read it in full before going further — the order of steps there matters.

Staying up to date

Once it's installed, OpenRide checks this repo's Releases on its own each time it launches, and shows a banner on the Home screen when a newer build is available — tap it (or go to Profile → App updates) to download and install, no adb required. See docs/INSTALL.md for details.

For developers

The rest of this section is technical detail for anyone contributing to the code — feel free to skip it otherwise.

• Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, single-activity, minSdk 30 (the tablet's Android 11), package dev.digitalducktape.openride
• Sensor access sits behind a BikeDataSource abstraction with a MockBikeDataSource (simulated ride) so all UI/logic development runs in a standard emulator; only the real system-service binding needs the physical bike
• Room database: Profile / Ride / RideSample (per-second samples — required for FIT/TCX export)
• Content browser fetches per-channel YouTube RSS (/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=…) on-device: no API key, no quota, no backend

License

OpenRide is released under the Apache License 2.0. Attributions for prior community work and bundled dependencies are in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Independent project — not affiliated with Peloton

OpenRide is an independent, non-commercial project. It is not affiliated with, authorized, sponsored, or endorsed by Peloton Interactive, Inc. "Peloton" and "Peloton Bike" are trademarks of their owner, used here only to describe the hardware OpenRide runs on.

OpenRide ships no Peloton source code, artwork, branding, audio, video, or class content. It reads the bike's own sensor values through an existing, unprotected on-device service (no root, no firmware modification) purely for interoperability, and streams third-party workout videos through YouTube's official player. Any UI resemblance is limited to common layout and interaction patterns. For the reverse-engineering and trademark basis, see docs/INTEROP.md.