Peloton Treadmill Review

This is the brand new Peloton Tread and it costs $2,495, which sounds like a lot of money because it is – but it’s actually a lot less expensive than the $4,295 Peloton Tread Plus.

I made a trip down to our local Peloton store in Santa Monica, California, to visit our friend Jerry, who we purchased our Peloton Bike Plus from a few months ago. And Jerry was nice enough to give me a full tour of the new Tread and explain all of its features and how it works.

In the next few minutes I’m going to show you everything I learned on my visit, including the new Peloton Treads:

Max Speed
Max Incline
How the adjustment knobs work
How it compares to the more expensive Tread Plus.

One of the first things I noticed walking into the Peloton showroom is the smaller profile and the smaller size of the new Peloton Tread. In general, the new Peloton Tread looks kind of just like a normal treadmill, and it doesn’t look nearly as gigantic as the Peloton Tread Plus.

So one of the first things Jerry showed me is on the left side and the right side, you have control knobs to adjust the incline and the speed of the Peloton Tread.

He showed me that on the left side, you can rotate the knob forward to increase the speed with micro adjustments and also in the center of the knob, there’s a button you can press and it’ll bump the incline up much faster.

It jumps you up 1%. See, it reflects the change on the screen, so I’ll show you what the max incline looks like here in just a moment. But over on the right side of the Peloton Tread, there is a knob that is used to adjust the speed.

The knob for speed works very similar to the incline knob on the left side. Basically, you just rotate the knob forward and you can micro adjust your speed increments. Then in the center of the rotating knob, there’s a button that you can press and that’ll increase your speed at a much faster rate.

You can adjust the speed of the treadmill by turning the rolling wheel, and it’ll adjust by 0.1 MPH at a time. Whereas if you press the button, it will bump you up a full 1 MPH at a time.

Jerry explain to me that both the Tread and the Tread Plus have a max speed of 12.5 miles per hour.

So of course, the first thing I did was smash on those buttons, and this thing really started picking up speed a lot faster than I was expecting my first impressions of the Peloton tread.

My first impressions of the Peloton Tread is it’s a nice feeling treadmill, however, I have to admit it’s not nearly as nice as the Peloton Tread Plus.

Last time I was at the Peloton store, I gave the Peloton Tread Plus a test, and honestly, the Peloton Tread+ feels amazing. When I started running on the Peloton Tread+, it reminded me of running on a really nice track in high school. However, obviously, the Peloton Tread+ is a lot more expensive and also a much bigger machine.

So the Peloton Tread is a nice feeling treadmill and it’s much more affordable. And on top of that, it’s also a much smaller profile. So if you don’t have a giant place to put your Peloton Tread+ in, the Peloton Tread is a little bit smaller and about 30% smaller than the Tread.

Plus, Jerry took the time to show me around the Peloton Tread and how high the incline goes and what the side profile looks like in comparison to the side profile on the Peloton Plus. And what is like the max incline on the 12.5% the maximum incline on the Tread is 12.5%.

As comparison the Peloton Tread Plus maximum incline is 15%. Using the rolling wheel on the left side will increase the incline by 0.5% at a time, whereas pressing the button will make it jump 1% at a time. The standard Peloton Tread doesn’t sit nearly as high off the ground as the Peloton Tread Plus, and also the actual belt on the Peloton Tread is a little bit shorter in length than the Peloton Tread Plus, in addition to the belt system being completely different on the Peloton Tread Plus versus the Tread.

Also, there is a red line down the center of the Peloton Tread, whereas on the plus there’s simply just an indentation.

Jerry also explained to me that the screen that comes on the new Peloton Tread is the same exact screen that you get on the Peloton Bike+.

The new Peloton Tread does have a little bit of a better speaker system than the Tread+, it does have a subwoofer, a speaker in the back. So even though the screen on the new Tread is a little bit smaller, you get a little bit better sound on the new Tread. It has a nice set of speakers. Jerry explained to me that the speaker system that you’ll find on the Peloton Tread is actually a lot better than on the Peloton Tread+.

So this makes me kind of wonder if they’re going to end up upgrading the Peloton Tread+ to keep up with the standard Peloton Tread in terms of the speaker system. Jerry also explained to me that on the Peloton Tread+, there is a button you can press that disengage as the belt from the motor on the Peloton Tread Plus, a free mode basically unlocks the belt here.

You can power it yourself if you want to do a free run kind of thing where you don’t have the belt connected to the motor. You can only do that on the Peloton Tread Plus and not on the new standard.

Peloton Tread in terms of the noise of the Peloton Tread makes Jerry explain to me that the footsteps will probably make a lot more noise in comparison to the Peloton Tread Plus, because those thick aluminum slats really absorb the impact of your step on the Peloton Tread+.

What does a sound and max speed of this one compared to like on the sound of your Tread+? It’s definitely a lot louder than this because you don’t have those rubber slats. I guess that sort of is the need for more sound suppression.

If you’re concerned about the amount of noise that a Peloton Tread makes, you’re probably going to want to take into consideration. There is a significant noise difference from the Tread+ versus the Tread. Overall, I’d have to say the Peloton Tread+ is definitely the nicer treadmill of the two.

However, it cost way more and obviously an $800 price difference is pretty big. Like I mentioned before, my experience and treadmills is pretty limited. But my first impressions is the Peloton Tread+ definitely has a more forgiving running surface.

And like I mentioned before, the Tread+ reminds me of like running on a really nice track in high school. The new Peloton Tread does feel like a very nice piece of machinery, and if you live anywhere near a Peloton store, I’d highly encourage you to go on down there and check it out for yourself so you can experience the differences and the different decks on the Peloton Tread and the Tread Plus, the difference in the deck on each the tread and the Trend Plus is actually pretty significant, and so is the price tag.

And like I mentioned before, I do have the Peloton Bike Plus and I also have about six other indoor cycling bikes in my apartment right now. So if you’re interested in the Peloton Bike Plus or how it stacks up and compares to other less expensive indoor cycling bikes, I have a lot of videos on my channel about that sort of stuff, including a summary of the best Peloton alternative under $500.