### Comment:
Yes. They are real. There are bikes in the showrooms that are constantly running but unless someone is riding it, the output is zero on the leaderboard and the username clearly states it's a showroom bike. And I think the ability to filter by age/gender helps people at the bottom to not get discouraged.

### REPLY:
That makes sense, but how can you tell whether 'penn_mom_91' is a real person if they are supposedly riding at home and never turn on the video chat function?

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