Stamina Products r360s recumbent bicycle Review

Overall 4.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

miscmayzee
East Dubuque, IL

This bike was a good deal for the money.

health conscious

MAR

2009

The Stamina r360s Recumbent bicyle was a real bargain at $110.00 at my local Wal-Mart store. If you go to almost any department store or sporting good store a stationary bike is going to run you around 300-400 with minimal accesory. Recumbents are ususually more than that right off the top! I was delighted to find a decent product at a manageable price!

This bike has a padded adjustable seat with two side-mounted bars. Each bar has a built-in heart rate monitor as well as a control for the resistance. One side is to up the resistance the other side is to down it. The portion of the bars with the heart rate monitor and resistance controls is also covered with material to prevent you from having to grab cold metal at any point.

The panel display of the bike is somewhat small, but it is more than adequate for tracking your workout. You can set the display on scan which will rotate through the menu at a steady pace or pick what you want to track and it will remain at this point. The display will inform you of: distance traveled, your mph, heart rate, calories burned, and workout-time. The panel also features a tray, but it is mostly inadequate for holding just about anything!

The bike was very quite for the first three months of its life with me, but it recently developed an inexplicable whirring sound. As the three month warranty on parts had it expired, my husband and I dissected and where not able to pinpoint the problem precisely, but we have a sneaking suspicion it is the idler wheel. The light noise it makes now is not irritating, but it is a departure from the perfect quite this machine left the box with.

Despite this flaw I would still recommend the bike! I can put up with a little bit of noise for a price reduction of $200-plus!

Last edited on Mar 06, 2009