article_snippet.sent: Finding the time to exercise when you've got heaps of housework - and laundry - piling up can be difficult, but this piece of gym kit means you've got no excuse not to work up a sweat.
article_snippet.sent: Chinese designers,  based at Dalian Nationalities University, do not say whether the bike will automatically fill and drain with water too.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, the detergent and water may need to be added and then drained before more water being added for a rinse cycle.
article_snippet.sent: the detergent and water say, however, that the device could be a solution for those who want both a washing machine and an exercise bike but cannot find space for both.
article_snippet.sent: Alternatively the device could also help shave a few pounds off your electricity bill by using pedal power to do the laundry.
article_snippet.sent: Students at the university said: 'Riding a bike is a popular exercise, washing laundry is something that you might do on daily basis or at least once a week, unless you keep buying new clothes and underwear, so why not combine you keep buying new clothes and underwear into a single useful equipment/appliance?
article_snippet.sent: The designers say the device is perfect for those struggling to find space for both a washing machine and an exercise bike . '
article_snippet.sent: Bike Washing Machine combines a stationary bicycle and washing machine, you can exercise while at the same time simultaneously washing your clothes. '
article_snippet.sent: It is not the first time cycling and the weekly wash have been combined.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011 Richard Hewitt, a design student at Sheffield Hallam University, announced he had developed a similar device that washes and dries clothes using pedal power.
article_snippet.sent: Riding the bike for 10 minutes would wash the clothes before the water needed to be drained and refilled before another 10 minute cycle rinsed the clothes.
article_snippet.sent: If cycling and doing your washing at the same time does not appeal, then perhaps another device that combines a treadmill with a washing machine.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Bike Washing Machine means cyclists can save electricity by washing clothes as cyclists exercise .