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09-13-08, 05:07 PM
Hi. Just wondering if anyone else out there rides a stationary. I just started riding mine last month to get back into shape while I save up for a good bike. I've got a Marcy recumbent magnetic bike, and I love it. I'm 6'3" and 333 pounds, and it's solid as a rock under me, and whisper quiet. I had to drill an extra hole to extend it out for my height, and even with that it's still solid. I picked it after reading some good reviews on amazon, definitely worth the $200 I paid(Save those pennies people, I paid for this almost entirely with a coffee can full of spare change). This seems to have gone up $50 since my order, but it's still got free shipping.
What to say about the display? Well, it keeps good time. This is the only place where the low price tag shows. There are four modes with no memory or log settings. Not sure if you can switch between mile and kilometers, but as they bare little resemblance to reality, it doesn't really matter.
Time: a clock which starts when you peddle, stops when you stop, and resets to zero after a couple minutes.
Speed: a speedometer with little relation to reality, 90rpm = 20 mph no matter what resistance the machine is set to. Useful for charting your cadence, if you don't mind building a chart first.
Distance: multiply Time by Speed to get distance, useful if you keep a steady cadence the whole time, or if you just want to say you rode x amount of miles.
Calorie: theoretically this calculates how many calories you've burned, possibly following an arcane formula derived for someone a third my size. No adjustments for this setting, and I doubt it matters, since as far as I can tell it just randomly counts up from zero.
Overall it's a great budget machine well suited for a big guy like me.
What to say about the display? Well, it keeps good time. This is the only place where the low price tag shows. There are four modes with no memory or log settings. Not sure if you can switch between mile and kilometers, but as they bare little resemblance to reality, it doesn't really matter.
Time: a clock which starts when you peddle, stops when you stop, and resets to zero after a couple minutes.
Speed: a speedometer with little relation to reality, 90rpm = 20 mph no matter what resistance the machine is set to. Useful for charting your cadence, if you don't mind building a chart first.
Distance: multiply Time by Speed to get distance, useful if you keep a steady cadence the whole time, or if you just want to say you rode x amount of miles.
Calorie: theoretically this calculates how many calories you've burned, possibly following an arcane formula derived for someone a third my size. No adjustments for this setting, and I doubt it matters, since as far as I can tell it just randomly counts up from zero.
Overall it's a great budget machine well suited for a big guy like me.