- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys.
Most weekday mornings, I go over to the YMCA gym and spend
30 or 40 minutes on an exercise bicycle, watching the TV,
which is full of commercials for this, the sitNcycle.
This basically says, you could
be doing this at home you know.
So I thought I'd get one and give it a try.
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The sitNcycle appears to arrive
with some assembly required.
I'll see how long it's going to take to put this together.
You can buy it form the website,
or you can call the number when you watch the TV ad.
And you'll pay the better part of $300 for this.
I looked on Amazon and found I could get one for $180.
So that's what I did, and I'll put a
link to that down below this video.
These are the pieces that came in the box.
Between the stark black and white colors,
I feel like I'm going to be assembling
something from Star Wars here.
This seems to be the main chunk of it all. (groans)
It has the cranks, where you'll put the pedals on.
And I believe in here is where the resistance is created
when you're pedaling.
And up here is where the seat's going to attach.
Remember, with this, there's no
handlebars or any other kind of support.
The seat is right here.
I can tell you already, I don't know.
It doesn't have quite the kind of cushion where,
really in that nice bicycle seat.
I've seen comments, a few people have mentioned,
seat could do with some more cush,
and the pedals could do with a better way to attach.
They tend to come loose with pedaling and come off,
and you have to reattach them.
And, some base piece here.
And some heavy metal piece here.
And the instructions.
A couple of things I found here,
reading through the instructions.
The first is, the weight limit for this is 300 pounds.
If you weigh more than 300 pounds,
they don't recommend using it.
The other is, the assembly looks like
it's going to take 20, 30 minutes.
But you don't need to have any special tools.
They include the Allen wrenches,
and little deal that you'll need.
I'm going to show you a close up here,
of a couple of the instruction pages.
If you've ever bought things at Ikea, or anything like that,
I think you'll have an idea of how this works.
But let me show you how complicated it is.
So here's some of the assembly.
If you feel you can't do this, you may be able to find
a neighbor or somebody who for real big pitcher of lemonade,
will sit down and put this together for you.
I'm not going to go through showing
you the steps of assembling it.
Hopefully when I come back shortly,
it will be all assembled.
I will though, make a note.
It's about 10 after two right now.
I'll let you know how long it took
me to get it all put together.
45 minutes later, here is the sitNcycle fully assembled.
I didn't run into any major problems with it.
I did go and get my own Phillips screw driver.
That made it easier.
But everything fit together pretty well.
There were no missing pieces.
And you sit up here.
Pedals are here.
This is the base that keeps you stable.
Hopefully, I'm going to find out
about that momentarily here.
I did want to mention,you can get this in other colors,
red, blue, purple,
They have a bunch of colors.
I went went with the least expensive,
which was black and white.
But I really think they could ask more for this one,
with Star Wars coming out in the near future.
They could have just called this the Storm Trooper edition.
The seat height is adjustable somewhat,
with a release mechanism here.
And right here, is the resistance setting for the pedaling.
Now this is supposed to be
a low resistance exercise bicycle.
So I think it's going to be different
than the ones at the YMCA.
Those have a pretty full seat that you sit in.
You can actually push against
the back of it to pedal and so forth.
I usually put the resistance up very high on those,
near the maximum, because I want to sweat.
I don't think this one is so much for sweating,
as just for keeping you burning some calories,
getting some exercise, keeping the blood flow in your legs,
while you would normally be sitting somewhere,
whether watching TV, or reading something.
And I've got a special plan for this.
I'm going to see if I can use it with my trek desk.
Which is a stand up desk, that fits over a treadmill.
Before I move this to the floor, I wanted to show you
kind of a close up of the pedaling mechanism here,
and let you hear the amount of sound that it makes,
at least at low resistance.
(low whirring)
There is some sound, but I don't find it
to be too distracting or too loud.
I've moved the sitNcycle to the floor here,
right behind the desk.
I'm going to just try sitting on it here and see whether
I fall off the seat, the whole thing falls over, whatever.
Okay.
I'm a little afraid to get both feet up off the floor.
It feels like it holds me okay.
I'm not near 300 pounds.
I'm wearing socks, I think they say
don't wear socks, you should wear shoes.
This is really low resistance.
This is on number two out of eight I think.
Okay, it's not bad.
I was a little paranoid about falling over earlier,
but it feels like it's holding me
pretty securely in this position.
I'll have to see what it's like when I put the
resistance up more, which is what I would like to do.
Let me take this out, the living room or somewhere else,
so you can see the whole thing.
I have set this up, with the seat
as high as it will possibly go.
Now what I was hoping, is that when I'm using
this bicycling, that my legs in the process of pedaling,
would go out pretty much straight.
But that's not going to happen,
with the seat at the highest.
When it's at the bottom of the pedal,
I've still got a lot of bend in the leg.
So this is just how this works.
It may not be possible to have it
so your legs go out straight each time around.
Because you'd be sitting so far up,
you would hurt if you fell off.
Now I've got the resistance set at four.
So that's right in the middle.
Still doesn't feel like much resistance to me.
Going to go a little faster here.
Put my shoes on, like I'm supposed to.
Now there's no back support.
I don't know how this would be over time.
I guess it makes you sit up straighter.
Going fast at a higher resistance,
I'm going to sweat on this, I can tell.
Of course it's, I think I've got
the thermostat set for 77 in here.
Middle of September, it's still hot in Texas.
It's like 95 degrees out.
Trying it out now at maximum resistance.
Oh, that's some resistance.
It's actually so much that it's
hard to pedal smoothly through it.
It's actually hurting my knee a little.
Need to go get my knee support that I just reviewed,
for going to the YMCA.
For it to have this much resistance, I would need to be
able to stretch my legs out.
Be able to push through, and make it work smoothly.
It's too high a resistance for me, at my height,
about six foot, one,
to be able to pedal through and make it smooth.
So yeah it's bothering my knee.
That was at level eight, now I'm at level one.
Lowest resistance.
It's like I'm not doing anything.
I think you could work up a sweat,
even at this level, just by pedaling this fast.
And I can watch TV, well I can hear myself clearly.
There's not so much sound, even going this fast,
to bother listening to the TV,
the radio, or something like that.
I put it back to four, now it's just nice.
So the sitNcycle, $180 isn't too bad for
a portable exercise bike.
This is very portable.
If you need to take it to another room,
when you're assembling it, you put a little
handle on the back, and it's got wheels.
So it's that easy to move around.
Sort of like a vacuum cleaner.
Feels pretty stable, reasonably well constructed.
I did the constructing but,
it doesn't feel like it's going to fall apart.
Doesn't feel like a $1,200 machine
that they have over at the YMCA gym.
Well I'll just have to test it out
to see how long it's going to last.
I'll do an update video, or in a week or two
after the kids have had a chance to try it.
I've tried it with the treadmill desk that I have.
I can tell you one concern that I had,
which was not being able to work up a sweat on this.
I'm not worrying about that anymore.
I think within a few minutes, you'll be
working up a sweat if you find the right resistance for you.
Now will this replace what I get out of going to the YMCA
and using that machine, that really high resistance?
I'll just have to have a few weeks of trying it out to tell.
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