Spin cycle vs life fitness stationary cycle

Do you know the models of the spin bike and Life Fitness bike? Just to make sure we're looking at the same thing. I *think* one gym uses a recumbent Life Fitness bike, but would have to check. I've used a few spin bikes at several different gyms and they are definitely not the same.

Generally speaking, I think you would be better off on the spin bike. IME, you can get your position on that bike to more closely match your position on a "real" bike - not perfect, maybe, but pretty close - and certainly closer than on the Life Cycle type bikes, which tend to be much more upright - more like riding a beach cruiser than a road or tri bike... And you can pretty much ignore what the computer on the Life Cycle. It bears very little resemblance to reality. For example, speed and distance computations are based solely on your RPM - so you could spin at 120 RPM with no resistance, and it would show you going very fast and very far, but that would do very little to improve your bike fitness. Use the spin bike and do some hard interval training. Using RPE will be fine. You can add heart rate when you get your garmin if you want to.