Handles of exercise bike in garage working well as extension cord hooks

In one Applewood garage, an exercise bike that hasn’t seen a serious workout in years has found a second life. The bike’s sturdy handlebars—once meant to steady the rider through long, sweaty sessions—are now employed as hooks for a tangle of orange extension cords.

The discovery was accidental: while rearranging tools, the homeowner draped a coil of cord over the bars and realized it hung perfectly. Since then, the bike has become a reliable organizing station. Neighbors have praised the simple hack, noting that it saves them from buying extra wall mounts or hooks.

The lesson? Fitness equipment might not always help with cardio, but it can still carry its weight in unexpected ways.

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G Papa Tango, if we stacked all the world's exercise cycles and treadmills currently gathering dust, would we reach the moon?

Short answer: almost certainly not — unless we’re wildly underestimating how many dusty machines there are. Below I show the arithmetic (step-by-step) so you can see how the estimate is built.

Assumptions

• Average distance to the Moon (mean): 384,400 km = 384,400,000 m.

• Three plausible counts of unused exercise devices worldwide (treadmills + exercise bikes + ellipticals etc.):

  • Low: 150,000,000 units

  • Mid: 300,000,000 units (my central estimate)

  • High: 1,000,000,000 units (very generous)

• Average stack height per machine when stacked one on top of another (average thickness): 0.25 m (25 cm).

Step-by-step arithmetic

1) Mid estimate (300 million machines)

• Units: 300,000,000

• Multiply by 0.25 m per unit:

  300,000,000 × 0.25 = 300,000,000 × ¼ = 75,000,000 m

• Convert to kilometres: 75,000,000 m ÷ 1,000 = 75,000 km

• Fraction of way to the Moon: 75,000 km ÷ 384,400 km ≈ 0.1951 = 19.5% of the distance.

2) Low estimate (150 million machines)

• 150,000,000 × 0.25 = 37,500,000 m = 37,500 km

• Fraction of Moon distance: 37,500 ÷ 384,400 ≈ 9.8%.

3) High estimate (1 billion machines)

• 1,000,000,000 × 0.25 = 250,000,000 m = 250,000 km

• Fraction of Moon distance: 250,000 ÷ 384,400 ≈ 65.0%.

Conclusion

With a reasonable mid estimate (≈300 million unused machines) and 0.25 m per stacked unit, the pile would reach about 75,000 km, roughly one-fifth of the way to the Moon. Even with a wildly generous billion-unit supply, you’d still only get to about 65% of the way. So — no, we wouldn’t reach the Moon unless there are far more forgotten exercise machines than seems plausible.

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