If you tried to continuously pedal probably not. However, I'm not familiar with this particular product but every exercise bike I've used you can just instantly stop for a second or two and then start back up. So if you intermittently needed to precisely click on things it would probably be fine. I'm not sure what type of work depends on continuous, precise mouse use other than maybe graphics or professional gaming. I'm sure there's others that I just haven't considered.

Throw the mouse out and just use emacs!

As a bonus you get more fine hand exercise -- on both hands!

Be sure to remap Caps Lock to work as CTRL, or else you may overtrain your left pinkie.

Or to alt, as the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended. Earlier keyboards had ctrl next to the space, which is why it's such a used modifier key (thumb is stronger than pinky, and is quite easy to use both left and right keys).

Not that I personally do that, I'm too used to ctrl mapped to caps lock. If I could go back in time to before I started using emacs though... I would learn emacs with vim bindings.

As a more general recommendation, getting used to both right and left control (whatever it's mapped to) is a huge ergonomic improvement. When you need to use Ctrl with a key in the left side of the keyboard, use right ctrl, and left ctrl when using a key in the right side. This avoid having to crumple your hand to reach, eg., ctrl+a.

Tempting. For those who have never used emacs or vim, how long would it take to get up to speed?

If you are seriously interested (which I highly recommend) just throw yourself into it. In the case of emacs, effort put in is directly correlated to efficiency gained. I was proficient in basic text/code editing in a few hours and incrementally tried to shoehorn most editing/scripting problems to be solved with emacs. There is an emacs wiki[0], the tutorial built into emacs[1], and a stack exchange network (mostly for questions related to emacs lisp which you will want to tinker in pretty soon after using the tool) [2].

Just a note, emacs could be a full desktop experience, supporting reading/writing email, web browsing, document browsing (pdfs, html, etc.), picture viewing, text editing, automation guru, etc etc etc. Some caution against some of these features but I use it mainly for text editing and automation support. It has a very robust keyboard-macro-recording tool, for example.

[0] https://www.emacswiki.org/ [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTutorial [2] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/

Additional reading

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

I’ve found the emacs manual to be superior to the emacs wiki pretty much always (three months into my emacs journey here), fwiw.

I was quite surprised to find that I could code and type normally while pedaling. I did expect this to be for just checking email, etc.

I don't think that you want to do fine mouse work at the same time as any physical activity.

I use a treadmill desk - I've found that 1.4mph works well. Pixel perfect work is a problem, but everything else is pretty okay.

No, but many people spend a great deal of time reading, and it is possible to do that while cycling.

Vertical scrolling could be bound to the direction of pedaling as well.

depends what type you use. trackpoints or rollerball mouse would work better since your hand movement isn't translated as much or at all