4.0AR Exercise bike

Submitted by Tiffani on Apr, 2012

We purchased the 4.0AR to help me get down to a reasonable weight and just have good general fitness.
The first 'work out' I had on it was at my local fitness store, about 15 minutes just to see how I felt on it.
Tonight we got it home, set it up in an hour (hubby is pretty handy assembling things) and I had my first real workout, on random, varying from levels 1 to 3. The heartrate monitors are located on the handles which as you can see in the pictures, are out in front of you.
I have to admit, the first time I sat on it, I put my hands up on the arm rests and giggled saying "Pew! Pew!!" I feel like I'm in starwars on a starship! HA!

Anyway, the workout was for 30 minutes, and my heartrate got up in the the ideal range for my age. I sweated pretty good, huffed and puffed some and when I was done my legs felt nice and wobbly!

I also think since it's in the tv room, I can set it to level 1 and just pedal so that I'm not just laying around all the time.

It's well built, no squeaks or creaks or clunks or grinding noises. It is a bit wide though and we had to rearrange our already crammed tv room to fit it in there (but this is a smal house with a funky layout).

It's super cool that there is no console right in front of you blocking your view. I was aimed right at the screen and enjoyed the movie :)
My plans are to use it daily, and after my 30 minute ride, my fanny was a bit sore, but I hope that will get better once the pounds come off.

Love this and highly recommend this bike!

Submitted by Pete (Sacramento, CA) on Dec, 2012

I am an avid cyclist looking for off-season training. The plan was to work out on the 4.0AR in the garage while it is raining outside. There are 4 basic reasons why I sent it back:
1. The wheels that allow of the seat adjustment mean that the seat is inherently loose on the tracts.This results in significant side-to-side rocking while pedaling.
2. The pedals are significantly further apart than are bicycle pedals. This interferes with spinning at a high cadence.
3 The computer programming if very limited. All the pre programmed options start with a 4 minute warmup. You can program your own, but you can't change the resistance more than once per 60 seconds.
4. Many of the plastic parts of the bike are too easily breakable. My bike arrived with a broken front wheel. The idea is that one person can move the bike by lifting the back and rolling on these small front wheels. They are made of thin fragile plastic that can't handle that sort of weight.

The computer off to the side and the 23 pound flywheel are good things, but I can't get around the flaws.