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Schwinn 240 Recumbent Exercise Bike | 
| Brand: Schwinn
Category: Sports
List Price: $599.00
Buy New: $449.00
as of 11/27/2009 13:54 CST details
You Save: $150.00 (25%)
New (2) from $449.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 562
Shipping Weight (lbs): 117
Dimensions (in): 67 x 13 x 26
Model: 100170
UPC: 708447506009
EAN: 0708447506009
ASIN: B00275R23E
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Recumbent exercise bike for the home with 16 resistance levels and 20-pound flywheel | | • | 17 workout programs, including 8 course profiles, target heart rate, 2 user profiles with custom workouts | | • | Telemetry-enabled, integrated grip heart rate system for easy fitness monitoring | | • | Seating system with padded ergonomic seat and dual-position lumbar support | | • | 300-pound maximum user weight; 5-year warranty on frame, 1 year on parts and electronics |
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Product Description
The Schwinn® 240 recumbent bike delivers a challenging workout in a relaxed position, with dual-position lumbar support. It features BioFit comfort with a padded ergonomic seat and an adjustable console. BioDyne performance offers a perimeter-weighted flywheel for a true road feel and smooth, consistent workouts, while oversized stabilizers and levelers are built-in for a solid workout platform.
Amazon.com Product Description
Save money on monthly gym fees and get in shape at the same time with the comfortable Schwinn 240 recumbent exercise bike. It offers a compact design and the feel of a more traditional outdoor bike while relying on core, stabilizing muscles to balance your body weight. Features include a 20-pound flywheel, 16 resistance levels, 17 programs, adjustable seat, and both telemetry and contact heart rate monitoring. It also includes the following exclusive Schwinn features: BioFit Comfort: - Seating system with padded ergonomic seat and dual-position lumbar support
- Adjustable console and seat
The Schwinn 240 upright exercise bike for the home. | BioDyne Performance: - Perimeter weighted flywheel for a true road feel, and smooth, consistent workouts
- Oversized stabilizers and levelers that are built-in for a solid workout platform
BioConnect Feedback: - 17 workout programs, including 8 course profiles, target heart rate, 2 user profiles with custom workouts
- Backlit, multi-color console for easy viewing
- Schwinn Advantage workout tracking, an easy way to set fitness goals and measure your progress right on the console
- Telemetry-enabled, integrated grip heart rate system for easy fitness monitoring
Features & Specifications: - 16 resistance levels
- 20-pound flywheel
- Eddy Current Brake (ECB) resistance system
- Adjustable handlebars and console
- Walk-through frame
- Water bottle holder
- Reading rack
- Magazine storage rack under the seat
- Transport wheels
- Switchable from miles to kilometers (KM)
- Maximum user weight: 300 pounds
The Schwinn 240's exercise console (see larger image). | 
The 240 features a walk-through frame, allowing for easy access. | Manufacturer's Warranty
5 years on the frame, 1 year on parts and electronics, 3 months on wear parts, 3 months on labor About Exercise Bikes
Despite the competition from trendy new fitness inventions, exercise bikes continue to be popular options for home exercise. They offer the same aerobic benefits of riding a bicycle at any time, in any weather, without leaving the comfort and safety of home. Exercise bikes don't take up much space, require little or no balance or coordination, and can provide an effective workout for all levels of users, from beginners to serious competitors. While the same could be said for a number of other types of home fitness equipment, the exercise bike is one of the few that allows you to watch television or read a magazine while you work out. For many people, having convenient access to quality exercise equipment is critical to sticking with a long-term exercise program.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Outstanding Excercise Bicycle! November 20, 2009
Larry B. Hughes (Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I did extensive research before I bought this bike. I've ridden it 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.
Another review of a FREE SHIPPING... it was a good one... November 19, 2009
KSIOP-19 (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, this is my story.
The delivery for my bike took 2 weeks (I bought it form Amazon and selected a free shipping).
Now, the process of delivery:
1) I received a post card in my mail box from "CEVA" (the delivery company).
The card said that my shipment had arrived from Amazon and they wanted me to call them back to schedule a delivery appointment.
They provided their phone and my tracking #.
2) I called them back the same day (around 7:15 PM !). The reception person was very nice to me: I gave her my cell number and requested that the best time would be a next day.
NOTE: She was very nice and she said that they would call me tomorrow ONE HOUR before arriving to my house.
3) The next day I've got the phone call from a delivery guy to confirm my delivery in one hour.
4) I asked my boss a permission to leave 30 min later and by the time I've got home (approximately in 20 min), the delivery guy was already there
peacefully waiting for me.
5) The box was BIG and IN PERFECT CONDITION !!! So, all events happened so smoothly: no drama, no heart pain - just the way things should be done in the USA (21 century).
I'll update in a month how the bike goes. But prior of buying it from Amazon, I went to a local sport store and tried the floor model: that was UNBELIEVABLE BIKE: I just felt in love with it :)))
The price was $599. So, I realized that paying $449 was very appealing...
I hope my comment will help someone to make a right decision...
 A review of the *free* shipping November 19, 2009
bikeless in chicago
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been an amazon customer for almost 12 years, and whenever I buy something, I always check amazon first.
No surprise, Amazon had the recumbent bike I was looking for, and nearly $100 cheaper than the local big box sports store where I tested it out.
Shipping is the factor here in the competitive price. Regular shipping was around $70 for this bike through amazon, and if I was paying that, then probably easier to just pick up the bike locally. But free shipping, well then it's a no-brainer, right? I can wait a couple of weeks for the bike...
So I ordered the bike through amazon on 10/25. Almost a month has passed. According to tracking, the bike arrived in Chicago (local hub) on 11/6. No call from the shipper, no way to contact them (CEVA?). Amazon wants me to wait until tomorrow to either cancel or have them ship another one. Ahh, just in time for the Christmas shipping rush. What are the odds I'll get it this time? And apparently I just gave a $400 short term loan to amazon if all I do is get a refund.
Bottom line, in this case, amazon free shipping appears to be free because the package never arrives. Maybe not such a good deal. I think I'm going back to the big box.
Really good, quiet machine November 17, 2009
Brian J. Behling
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is easy to assemble and very quiet, making it easy to watch TV or hear what's going on.
 Schwinn 240 is GREAT! November 10, 2009
Anthony N. (Michigan, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just purchased the Schwinn 240. It is the first exercise bike I have ever owned but have used others my friends had. This machine is light years ahead of what I've used before.
After having tried other brands I settled on this one due to how well it is constructed, ease of use etc.
I gave it 4 out of 5 stars because the instructions as to how to use it to get the most out of it SUCK! I wrote the company concerning this. It was *kind of* easy to initially set it up. (Don't set it up for Guest if you are the primary user or it won't save your workouts.) It is alot of guess work for me to go from going to my name then getting to the actual workout screen.
I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually but, why should I have to? That should be Schwinn's responsibility to have already figured it out for me to make my life a little more simpler!
Also, all the parts to put it together come on two pieces of card board with plastic over them to keep them in place. There are numbers etc. under each nut and bolt but none of these letters and numbers match up with the book to put the machine together. You have to figure that out for yourself by looking at the pictures in the book. Another Schwinn blunder. They could very easily have put a number under each nut and put that **same** number in the book.
Other than these blunders, I really love the machine and am getting lots of use from it! I hope to have it many years and extend my quality of life for many years to come.
Schwinn, get a clue. We don't want to learn this machine by trial and error. Put together a better manual on how to use this machine. Don't make me have to put one together for you!
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