Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Folks, don’t believe everything you read. Especially online. The guy who said assembly of this puppy is a breeze must have worked in the factory where it was made. Assembly is an absolute 3-hour nightmare requiring two people and the patience of Job. Parts are incorrectly identified, the instruction manual is written in an inscrutable facsimile of English, and some of the required internal connections are virtually impossible to accomplish for adult fingers. Then, when you’re finally finished, what you’ve got is a shoddily-constructed, miserably uncomfortable, rickety exercise bike with uneven tension on the pedals and a bunch of California warning stickers that some components are extremely flammable. Even worse, if you are buying this bike for yourself and a partner, adjusting it for different leg lengths requires an Herculean effort — you more of less have to lift the bike off the ground (it’s quite heavy) and get down on your hands and knees before you can adjust the seat position for a different leg length. No thanks — it’s headed back to China where it came from. And by the way, it occurs to me that in addition to reviews, Amazon might want to publish one other essential piece of information that would be hugely helpful to customers in making a purchase decision — simple statistics on what percentage of sold units are returned. That’s the ultimate review.