Love the bike.
Everything people are saying is true. Level 2 - 3 is a good level to begin with. Works well sitting on a lounger couch. First day I did 35 minutes at level 2.
Very had to understand display meaning from manual.
I just set it on time, and used that. The number on top? I guess that is RPM ( revolutions per minute).
When I set it to distance, I would say it is WAY too optimistic. I peddled 5 minutes and it seemed to say I had gone over a mile. I'm sure I just don't understand how it works.
It seems it does both miles and kilometers; but I see no way to choose between the two (manual mentions both, but no mention of how).
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I have had some time to test it; and I've been trying to correlate the value they give you to actual realistic values of Miles/Hour. I went cross-country by bicycle, twice, over 8800 miles so I know what the equivalent number of miles feels like.
I measured the RPM and determined that 73 RPM equates to the number 17 (which should be either KM/Hour or Miles/Hour).
Knowing how far I tend to go on a bicycle at that rotation speed, I'd say the number can't possibly be Miles/Hour
If you convert 17 Km / Hour to Miles / Hour... you get 10.6 miles / Hour.
However, I would say that isn't even realistic. I would say, if a person wants to, truthfully, get a reading out of this machine. Take the reading it gives on the Odometer, convert it from KM to Miles, then multiply by .7.
Thus, in about 2 hours the odometer said 33.6. I convert that to 20.8 and multiply by .7, meaning I certainly did not do 33.6 miles... I probably did more like 14.6 miles. Thus, if you want to estimate how many miles/hour you did from the Odometer reading, just divide it by 2.
Thus, 33.6 / 2 = 16.8 miles. That's rather close, and is probably a pretty good approximate without having to do intricate math.
Seeing that, in reality, the number you set it on has a lot to do with how many miles you really went (on a real bike) this is probably a good estimate (better than thinking you went 33.6 miles, when you really only went about half that).
In the end? The way they originally figured on, I think, was for it to read-out in KM/Hour. However, the equation they are using seems to overestimate how far you went, though. Moral of the story, divide the total odometer number by 2 and you'll have a pretty good estimate of how far you have been in miles-per-hour.
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