We took delivery of our new Schwinn 270 recumbent bike two days ago.
Purchasing from Amazon.com gave us a price well below MSRP. Assembly
took a few hours but I did not rush it; probably I could have done it in
2 h. In a few of the steps, my wife provided a spare set of hands which
was essential.
The fasteners are all metric. The console's program allows the user to
select miles or kilometer in its setup sequence. (One can change it
later, and old data gets converted.) Of course, I chose kilometers. I
was pleasantly surprised to see, when entering user profile data, that
the program then asked for height in centimeters and mass (they called
it weight) in kilograms.
I would rate this machine 4.9 out of 5 stars so far. The embedded
heart-rate monitor (working off contacts in the hand grips) appears to
double-count the pulse. We have not yet tried the MP3 player connection,
the USB data download port, or the resistance programs (varying
resistance as a function of time in emulation of terrain topography).
The machine is extremely quiet if the fan is off. And it is not at all
noisy.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stoney Point Mountain Road
Doyle TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
