The brakes are located on the arm cycle handles and in a position which would be similar to a normal drop bar on a road bike. The brakes are the usual road caliper brakes. The cables don’t get mangled up as they are attached to arm cycling handles which are always horizontal and connected to your hands… they simply move up and down.

There is absolutely no special coordination required to ride a leg and arm cycle!

When given to absolute beginners, in our tests, ALL were able to use our arms and legs exercise bike immediately on the first go. See this short video of one of the open days here (click to see)

Because the upper body cycling handlebars are parallel, it comes very natural to first time users and no different to riding a normal bike.

Learning to skate, skateboard, ski, waterski etc are all much much harder to learn yet people learn that in matter of hours or minutes. Twicycle is incredibly easy to use.

There is a Chest PAD where the rider is resting thier chest on. The pad is in such a position that it keeps one’s face a considerable distance away from the chain/chainring so that it can’t come into contact with one another.

An optional chain guard can also be fitted for those who feel the added accessory would benefit them and can be purchased as the extra accessory directly from us. Locking Mechanism / Chainguard

The chain can ONLY turn if the rider is turning it. The moment the rider stops turning the bars, the chain stops turning too… And the time you’re turning the hand cycle handlebars, your fingers can not possibly be anywhere near the chain as they would be firmly on the actual handles.

Yes it does!

There is a separate optional accesory which when engaged locks the hand cycling handlebars in “drop bar” position and allows TwiCycle to be used like a normal road bike. Note that the hand grips will still have some movement but the whole arm cycling crank system will not be able to turn.

The Locking Mechanism / Chainguard accessory is available from our shop.

You can do only leg cycling… only arm cycling…or any combination of those aka full body cycling. The arms drive the front wheel and the legs drive the back wheel completely independently of each other making it an ideal 2wd bicycle.

The system currently used on the hand cycling handlebars is the standard ‘freewheel’ system which means that you can stop spinning the arm pedals at any time and just coast…

Watch when the back chain gets caught too!

The front wheel drive mechanism is no different to a normal rear wheel mechanism and this has been tried and tested for over a 100 years. The risks on a 2wd bicycle are the same as for any other standard bicycle.

And with Twicycle, even if the front chain derails it still only drops a few inches and then stops at hand cycling handlebars so it’s even safer than the rear drive chain as it doesn’t flap around but stays under tension from derailleur.

Yes you can. See our Arm and leg bike use cases page for even more ways to use Twicycle full body cycle.

The great thing about Twicycle is that you can actually separate your workout into different muscle groups on different days.

For example:

Mondays: you can use the ‘Pushing’ motion on the hand cycle handlebars for half of the turn exercising your chest and triceps only.. The 2wd bike keeps coasting so you don’t have to provide power on the remaining ‘pull’ stroke… or you can help out for that half of the stroke with your legs. You can also wind the handlebars BACK to reset for another PUSH only motion using it like a BENCH PRESS machine.

Tuesdays: you can use the PULL motion only for half the turn exercising only your lats and biceps. This would be like using a row machine or a row bike!

Wednesdays: Use your legs only as a normal bicycle.

The riding position is no different than any other road/race bicycle. Professional athletes have been using bikes with even lower aero positions with no evidence of any side effects.

Included Chest Pad on which the rider rests all of their upper body weight, alleviates the stress from the back therefore making Twicycle much more comfortable than a normal road bike.

You can do either. Depending on how hard you push. Handling on the arm and leg bike is just like a regular bike once you get used to it which takes a few minutes only. Please see this use case for using our full body bike for commuting.

Yes, Just like a 4WD car, Twicycle, 2 wheel drive bike, is the bike equivalent to that. Having drive on both wheels increases traction two fold so you no longer have to have the rear wheel just spin and give no drive, forcing you to walk the rest of the uphill.

Yes, we tried this. 180 degree offset cranks work well for legs but are not desirable for arms as it’s not great for steering or stability… The current version with handles parallel as on every other bike is completely stable and feels immediately natural to first time users.

Yes, absolutely. You can mount Twicycle on any standard turbo trainer and use it in place of a hand bicycle machine. The front wheel has the same spacing as the rear so you can put the turbo trainer on either one (or both if you have 2). See Twicycle instagram page for how we did it at Eurobike.

The original Twicycle, 2wd cycle for arms and legs, comes with 23c tyres as standard.

The original can easily fit 25c and most possibly 28c tyres (at least on the front without issues). For the rear you may need to check when in a bike shop as sizes can differ from brand to brand.

If you need exact dimensions from the axle to the nearest point on either fork or frame on our arm and leg bike, please contact us.

The rider weight on the current full body bicycle is limited by wheels mainly, which are rated at 110kg. There is no height limit. Feel free to contact us if you’re really tall and unsure.

The leg and arm bike was designed to be used with the large 53t chainring only as you will have less need to change gears with the ability to add arm cycling power instead. We originally intended to include only the 53t but the price difference to add another 39t was minimal so we added it. If you live in a really hilly environment, then you may opt to use the smaller 39t on the hills. They need to be changed by hand.

The “hand and foot bike”, “hand and foot pedal bike”, “H&F bike” is a term more popularly used in Germany. It is essentially the same thing as an arm and leg bike and basically describes a full body bicycle which has an arm cycling mechanism as well as a leg mechanism. We chose the call our Twicycle an Arm and Leg bike as it describes more accurately the limbs and muscle groups being used and exercised to propel the bike. A full body bicycle is probably the most correct term as the bike like Twicycle really engages all muscles in your body.