Outstanding Excercise Bicycle!. I did extensive research before I bought this bike. I’ve ridden Schwinn 240 Recumbent Exercise Bike for about ten hours since assembly and am simply delighted with it. I am a good mechanic and assembled it by myself in about three hours. The assembly manual has little text, mostly illustrations; but they marginally suffice, more text would be very helpful.
The console electronic cable going the top of the front wheel hardware has connectors at both ends — they must be connected to the proper connectors, they are not the same configuration and are not interchangeable. So beware, the bike parts I received had this cable reversed so I was unable to connect the connectors until I removed the cable and reversed its “to — from” direction.
The text regarding the programming of a user is unsatisfactory, confusing, does not effective communicate to a reader.
When registering the bike, you must have its serial number, the serial number is located on the bottom of the front stabilizer, record it before you assemble the bike.
In sum, if you are looking for an outstanding recumbent exercise bike at a most reasonable price, I urge you to purchase this bike.
An evolving review…. This review will ne changed (and stars will go up) over time.
Today, I’m starting out with the shipping. The main reason I got this from Amazon was to avoid the MA sales tax and get free shipping. Buying it locally would have added $100 to the price. Wasn’t willing to pay that.
Unlike others, I wasn’t called by a shipping company to arrange a deliver time. In all fairness, however, I ordered this on a Monday and it was scheduled to be delivered by Fedex on a Friday, so that’s is a great turnaround time.
It was ultimately delivered a day earlier. However, it was left in my driveway, near the garage door, and wasn’t signed for. My neighborhood is infested with trash pickers, so this would have been easy pickins’ for some burly guys with a pickup truck. Fortunately, I was monitoring Fedex and the minute I saw it was delivered I rushed home to bring it inside.
First thing I noticed was that there was a 3″ diameter hole in the side of the box. (I later called Fedex to make sure they added this to their delivery report, in case I need to return).
I managed to get the thing inside the house. And there it sits, waiting for assembly this weekend. Stay tuned.
So far, the experience rates two stars, with the damage and lack of a phone call or signed receipt knocking it down to one, and then adding a star for the fast delivery time. Hope that everything will be fine and I will be able to raise the rating way up.
Just what I hoped for. I did alot of research before I decided to get this machine. It is everything I hoped for and needed. I had a friend put it together and it was up and running in 1.5 hours. I love it, use it two times a day and find it ‘easy’ on my knees and back. Very, very happy with this purchase.