re: Gym instructor sued for "bullying" after not taking breaks

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But perhaps the most colorful spinning-centric lawsuit is the one filed against Equinox Holdings, SoulCycle's parent company, stemming from an incident of "spin rage" in 2007. Stuart Sugarman was spinning along, cheering and shouting things like "You go, girl!" in a Manhattan Equinox gym. Christopher Carter, who was a few bikes down, quickly became agitated. Sugarman claims Carter verbally assaulted him before he dismounted from his bike and in a "spin rage" picked up the front of Sugarman's cycle and threw him into the wall of the classroom, "leaving a hole in the sheetrock where his cycle penetrated." The New York Post described it as a "psycho spin out." Carter was acquitted, but Sugarman sued him and the gym, claiming "mental and physical anguish, economic loss, pain and suffering, humiliation and damage to reputation" as a result of the incident.

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