Got this bike as a replacement for my old one.
Found most of its features quite useful and practical especially the
- presets for resistance profiles
- speed, calories, distance and pule rate meters, oplus several others i haven't used as yet.
- almost noiseless operation.
- The display is well-marked
- the back-and-silver finish looks great
The assembly process was not quite as hard as other previews seemed to indicate (this delayed my purchase decision somewhat). Managed to setup the entire thing in one afternoon.
There are however a few points I should bring up as irritants.
1. SEAT: The seat has been a pain to fix. It took a lot of effort to tighten the screws and keep in one position. Keeps sliding to an inclined position everytime the user sits on it, uless you carefully lean forward and avoid placing too much weight on the back-end of the seat. Perhaps Schwinn should consider redesigning the way the seat-bracket fits onto the bike frame. The cusion is generally acceptable and was not too hard, as some reviews indicated.
2. HANDLE-BAR: The pulse-rate sensor is located flush on the extended arms of the U-shaped handlebar. The handlebar itself though quite stable, tends to rotate forward when you use it to support a forward leaning rider. I use a work-around by using the horizontal piece of the U-shape to rest my hands while riding, and grip the U-extensions only for short periods to check pulse-rate-careful not to put too much forward-leaning weight. Again nothing that Schwinn cannot easily fix by minor design tweaks.
All in all, I think this was great value-for-money at $199.
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