I wanted to have a few months and a little bit of experience with my bike before I wrote this, so here's what I've learned:
To start, everything I write is a little tainted because I'm really excited to have finally been able to get an exercise bike, so just know that first. Now:
*I love it. Love, love, love it!
*Ridiculously easy to put together.
*Fits into an impressively small space.
*It would be nice if the resistance knob had some sort of measurement or even just an incremental marking to know where you left off.
*The seat is soft but firm, but honestly, after 15 minutes, hurts my backside so much, that it still hurts the next day if I keep going longer than that.
*I am 5'5.5" and pretty proportionally average in every other way. The seat is so high that for me, when I put it on the lowest adjustment peg, I literally had to have a short box to climb onto it. I rectified that by not using the adjustment pegs and just "setting" the seat post into it's place. That let me get rid of the box that I was using as a stepping stool, but I still have to be rather cautious climbing onto the bike. (The middle of the bike, [I don't know what it's called but it connects the front wheel to the back wheel] is about half an inch higher than my knee, so I really have to lift my leg high to get it over. In doing so, I (don't laugh), have on occasion, have lost my balance and tipped over in the opposite direction. Once standing over the bike, I have to "hop" up to the seat.
*Likely due to the seat issues (being both high and uncomfortable), I try to adjust the way I'm seated, so I put my hands on the handle bars instead of just sitting upright and peddling. It is a tad far away. I've fixed this by raising the handlebars as far up as I could, which has helped, but I'm still rather awkwardly reaching to it. I wish that is was either closer by an inch, or that the post with peg holes on the handlebar was higher, so I could raise it one or two pegs more.
*It is quiet. After two months, a "Shshshshsh" scratching/scraping sound formed with each rotation of the wheel, but it's not obnoxious or loud or anything. Recently, a "tick-tick-tick" sound has formed with each rotation of the right pedal, I haven't figured that out yet.
*The only other thing of note is the bolts that connect the body of the boke to the cross bars on the floor that make it stable. I would guess that for ease of assembly, they made them go from the bottom, up. Unfortunately, the result is that cosmetically, it looks dumb, but more importantly, it is a nasty thing to kick when barefoot or sleepy. I tried to flip the bolt so that the smooth side would be on top; it's absolutely doable as far as the length of the bolt and the space from the floor, and doable as far as ability to maneuver the parts during assembly. Unfortunately, only the hole at the bottom of the base is cut out to fit a square base, the top hole is not. So if you flip the bolts, the base isn't secure (and rattles). **Note to the manufacturer, please flip the bolt. Thank you.
Anyway, I am so happy to have this, I don't greatly care about the bitty stuff that I've written. The bike is very stable both while getting on and off, and while riding (which was my biggest concern). It doesn't make a ton of noise. It fits into a very small space, and I'm grateful to have it.
