Exercise Bikes Item ID: #108Schwinn Active 10 Series Upright Exercise Bike
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Item DescriptionThis Schwinn upright exercise bike has a multi-functional console display that provides feedback that you need for the results you want. The integrated target heart rate programs keep you at the heart rate you choose. The BioFit¿ seat design has a 9 position height adjustment and contoured seat for a comfortable ride. There are 11 programs to keep you motivated and challenged. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Schwinn Active 10 Series Upright Exercise Bike”Leave a Reply |
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Pros
Takes up a relatively minor footprint in terms of space
Easy to move
Adequate resistance levels
Cons
Seat wobbles loose after a couple of rides and we have to screw it back in
Most of the parameters on our electronic console don’t work (speed, distance, calories burned), but I don’t think that we’ll really bother with the hassle of sending it back because we’re more concerned with time than anything else
Seat height is not super easy to adjust
Seat is a bit hard
In general I would say it’s a pretty decent bike for a cycling novice like me and I can’t really complain.
Would be the best if not the seat. Its to hard,but bike is a dream so far;)
It is not as difficult to assemble this as some reviews indicate, it only took me an hour and 20 minutes and a little bit of bleeding to get it up and running. The problem is that it stayed up and running only about a week, when it began to make a clanking noise and the crank the pedals are attached to seemed to be getting loose. Then after a couple more days, quite suddenly the crank (or whatever it is called) seemed to break loose from its moorings inside the plastic housing such that you can’t turn the pedals without them wobbling and sticking. Instantly unusable. I have not subjected this machine to hard use (whatever that might be) and I am not heavy–I am a 160 pound man. At this point Amazon may or may not refund my money (I have a problem of finding a box for it.) Regardless of whether I get my money back from Amazon, this is clearly a very poorly engineered item and I recommend on the basis of my experience that any potential purchaser not buy it.
Update: Rather than spend half a day locating an appropriate box and then disassembling the bike and shipping it back, I elected to take the refund ($60 on my $200) that Amazon offered because I was not satisfied with the product, and then out of curiosity I removed the screws on the housing of the pedal crank (much easier than assembling or disassembling the bicycle itself) to find out what was wrong with it. What was wrong with it was simple. The bearings are so shoddily made that they had gotten torqued out of alignment by my one week of use, and the bearing assembly had simply come apart. Literally. I suspect this will happen sooner or later to other bikes of this model. I still suggest not buying it. So off to the landfill it goes.
I’ve only had this for a couple months now, but I’ve been using it about 3x per week, and it’s been great. Assembly was simple. The bike has plenty of resistance for me, and I’m a 150-lb 5′8″ guy in reasonably good shape. It’s very compact and easy to move; in fact I move it out of the corner into the middle of the room (to watch TV) every time I use it. The computer is not intuitive to use, so you need to read 1 or 2 pages of the manual the first couple times you use it; but after that you remember, so it’s no problem. That’s my only real complaint so far. Would buy again.
We bought this to use it at home. The product is good and easy to assemble. I like the programs and functions provided. We can easily set the exercise levels and goals. Now we use it every day, especially when we are watching TV. i would recommend this product to my friend.