Orite....basically....just doing some cardio on my x-trainer watching England V NZL highlights.....and you wouldnt beleive...but one of the steel bits that supports your weight has just effing snapped in half!!!!!!!! Now i'm the lightest I've been in a while...so a bit miffed. this thing is about 2 months old as well...

So anyway does anyone have any recomedations for some decent home cardio equipment? dont want to spend a fortune and it has to be foldable......and sturdy!

Thanks

thinking about this: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 199542.htm

OR

http://www.jjbsports.com/exercise-bikes ... 12686.aspx

not sure how effective/useful this would be: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 199542.htm

gotta go get it tommorow

Is it not covered by warranty?

Personally if you are looking at a bike I'd get a turbo trainer and stick your racer in it as that would be much better.

Just googled turbo trainer and this came up

Didnt have a warranty...since it was a friend who bought it new and I bought it off him coz he decided after a week he didnt want it lol.

i thought about one of those folding bikes. Shame you cant trail 1 in the shops

lollll! more like this!

Get the warrenty off the mate

^^ agree - or Mike did you do a runner from Argos at the counter?

the bikes they sell are meant to hang clothes on nothing else- new year resolutions that dont happen

if you are going to purchase a bike- get it from costco or makro- if it goes tits up, no quibbling- money back straight away, plus with vat going down they will be a few quid cheaper now.

since you got your student lan and you will be putting 3 yrs in mike, why not spend a bit more on something that will last? google x-bike, more of a real feel as the handlebars move and stuff- about £600-£700, or as GB said, get a cheap iron horse and get a turbotrainer- get a tacx one that hook up to a pc and do some vuelta, or tour de france stages.

what did you go for Mike?

SCOTT GALTON wrote:what did you go for Mike?

Well just got back from JJB and they had a sale on...first I wanted this £200 Olympus bike that was on sale for 08 quid...but didnt have stock...then I asked for this £200 x-trainer which was on sale for £100 but they didnt have stock of that either!!! so.....no cardio in the morning for me gunna try go to Argos 2mrw and get something...

could you let me know what you get? Im looking for some home cardio so im interested in your purchase

Run there Mike and you'll get in some morning cardio

As I said in Scott's thread, I wouldn't trust the cheap Argos bikes. Housemate got one recently, and it's not very sturdy, and generally quite shit.

You could try the 2nd hand ads, can get some real bargains there. Especially if you can wait a couple of months until the new-year resolutions have failed.

SCOTT GALTON wrote:could you let me know what you get? Im looking for some home cardio so im interested in your purchase

sure thing mate i'll post up what I get...may even take some pix

Alex wrote:Run there Mike and you'll get in some morning cardio

lmao yeah!! Got a netball match tommorow morning so may just starve myself until thats over...

buy cheap and you'll buy twice
question is why dont gym's all have argos and jjb bikes-and there lies your answer

How much would you's say you have to pay for a half decent x-trainer for a small spare room of the house? I would like something but dont really want to spend a lot being a tight arse Jock

julesm wrote:buy cheap and you'll buy twice
question is why dont gym's all have argos and jjb bikes-and there lies your answer

I think its slightly different if you have different people using the same equipment like 50-100 times per day, than say, one person using it for 1 hour per day...maybe 2 at a push.

The equipment I looked at in JJB was down in price, originally marked up at £200, and was Olympus not JJB or Argos branded. As long as it can support my weight I'm happy. Paying £600 for a peice of cardio equipment for the hosue is ridiculous, unless your an elite athlete with loads of spare room (and money!)

Of course I coudl just go running....but...its too damn cold for that nonesense!

Rab wrote:How much would you's say you have to pay for a half decent x-trainer for a small spare room of the house? I would like something but dont really want to spend a lot being a tight arse Jock

I dont think you can put a figure on it and say 'if you paid that much it'll be good'.....you could go out and buy a v-fit xtrainer for £300.....quite some money. would it be any good? probably not. You could spend £500 on a rebook one.....might be orite, but not really hard wearing. I'd say just try and use the equipment first to see if its sturdy and well built. then look at the features. then see how practical it is - some of these xtrainers are ridiculous in size and would take up a whole room.

look around, try them out if poss. The one I bought I didnt try it. I got it from a mate for next to nothing and it broke. Not bothered really just more pissed I cant get my morning cardio in for 2 days now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok £600 may be a tad excessive- but since you are away for 3 yrs at uni-equates to 200 a year, or 4 a week
how much do you pay for your gym a week?

with the credit crunch afoot, there will be a lot of the smaller privately owned gyms going to the wall me thinks,so keep an eye on the papers for bankruptcy sales etc- you may be able to pick up an "industrial use" bike quite cheap

I dont think many bikes you get in a gym are foldable and Mike said he need the equipment to fold.
I must admit going out to wander the street for cardio when it's dark,cold and wet in no fun at all. IF Mike find something in the 150 quid ball park that is foldable i will be getting one as well

Ok well here is the bike I bought...



and folded:



Its very sturdy and best of all is silent! The xtrainer tended to be quit clunky and noisy. Cost me £80

nice bike Mike. I might be getting one in the sales!

ARe you watching a Dugdale dvd?

Mike is this bike still ok? Any faults occured?