Jim (Frysinger), For recumbent cycling, I would prefer setting the spedometer to meters per second.
Is that an option? Gene ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of James [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:00 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53678] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike One oddity noted on this recumbent bike: The speed reads out numerically with the unit symbol km/h. But the distance reads out numerically with the unit symbol KM. Jim -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road Doyle TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108 On 2014-04-02 12:55, James wrote: > 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 >
