Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am 5'8" with a 31" inseam, which you would think was pretty average for the range of person you think they would have designed this bike for. However it has a huge design flaw! You cannot move the seat back or forth without raising and lowering it also. As a result, if I have it far enough back to have just a little bend in my knee at the farthest point of the pedal (the way you are suppose to adjust a bike to ride) then the pedal at it's highest and closest point to me is hitting me in the chest! If I have it back far enough that my knees are not knocking the air out of me as I ride then I cannot reach the pedal at it's lowest and farthest point. It won't adjust because you cannot simply raise or lower the seat or move it forward or backward. It has to be moved back and up at the same time or forward and down at the same time. It is the triangular type of base that creates this flaw and I cannot believe this went through any testing. The girl on the phone admitted she couldn't ride it either, she said she was 5'2" and said a guy 6'2" who worked there could not ride it also. I had to send it back. Probably someone who never rode a recumbent bike in his/her life but had big engineering degrees designed this. If you look close enough at the male model riding it you can see his knees are way up to high for anyone realistically to be able to ride this without developing knee problems, or to have the breathe to get a good cardio workout. If you look at the girl model closely you can see she can barely reach the bottom pedal. The male's top knee is too flexioned and he will end up with pain in the front of his kneecap. The female's knee is too straight on the lower pedal and she will end up with pain in the back of her knee. If either rode this bike regularly as shown they would end up needing to have their knees replaced.