I bought a rowing machine yesterday from Rebel Sport. It's a York turbine and looks like this:
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Out of the box it looked like this after I'd put the more obvious major pieces together.:
But fortunately it came with a 'helpful' assembly diagram Here:
Bugger me. I'm hopeless at assembling Ikea-type furniture and hate having to put together virtually anything you buy nowadays. I battled away for a couple of hours, having to install industrial-like lighting so as to see the tiny bolt and screw holes and to find the bolts, screws and washers that I invariably dropped on to the floor.
I only had one panic situation though as about a third of the way in I discovered that I was missing an axle, some vital bolts and washers and some foot-pads. Bummer. I searched through everything that I'd unpacked including going through the mountain of cardboard, plastic and styrofoam and couldn't find them. I laid out everything I had, photographed them and was about to ring Rebel Sport when I had one last look in the outer cardboard box. The missing items were shrink-wrapped onto a piece of flat cardboard that had been put into the carton upside down so all you could see was a bit of flat cardboard that merged with the bottom of the carton. Whew!
I eventually got it assembled and working.
The next step will be to get rid of a bed in one of the guest rooms (we don't get many guests nowadays), and set it up as a mini-gym.
7 comments:
Bring back the gardening posts.
$1,199. I was going to ask you how much it cost but instead I googled it.
I initially wanted to buy the $799 one but they were out of stock. I bought the top model they had because Lynn wants to get her fitness up as quick as possible before she leaves for London and it would have meant waiting a couple of weeks.
The more expensive model is a better machine though so hopefully will prove itself over time.
How much feedback do you get on the screen? Does it have simulated speed?
The screen measures time, distance, calories, stroke count (speed) and pulse.
I haven't used it yet but Lynn says it's very good - easily as good as the one we were using at the local gym.
Why didn't you just buy a little row boat? There is plenty of water near your place.
Mate, it's winter up here - down to 14 degrees!
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