Sunny Pro Indoor Cycling Bike

5 Responses to “Sunny Health & Fitness Pro Indoor Cycling Bike”

1. SeeYouToo says:

   June 13, 2010 at 12:00 am

   This is an excellent buy for the price. Easy to assemble. I have been working out on it for more than a month now and I get a great workout. It works like this: A company in China mass produces this bike. Color schemes and names may change but its the exact same bike. Pro Form has this bike for over 500.00. The only difference is color and name. I bought this bike because going to the gym starting becoming time consuming. I can jump on this baby while watching sports and before I know it, a couple of hours have gone buy. Dripping sweat just like I did at the gym. I originally thought that I may not have to discipline to keep it up but its actually easier when the equipment is right there. No more talking yourself into and burning extra gas and paying for extra gym membership for a quality aerobics exercise. You will have to buy bike gloves, shorts, and sweat bands. I bought a seat cushion but it didn’t make it more comfortable. Seat will be uncomfortable but I guess that just the way it is. Bike shorts help a ton and alternating between sitting and climbing helps a lot. I have done 2 hour rides on it. If you don’t have a lot of money to burn, buy it. Oh yeah… after assembling and riding it a few times. Go back and tighten everything again or check to make sure its still tight. There is like a break in period. I am very satisfied with this purchase. [...]

   Go to this link and you will see exact same bike.

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2. J. Williams says:

   June 6, 2010 at 12:00 am

   My initial experience with the Sunny Pro was pretty much the same as described in previous reviews: delivery within a week, cumbersome packaging, easy set up (about 30 minutes) and so on. I have a set of clip-in pedals already so I wasn’t disappointed with the pedals (and, for the record, the strap-pedals are probably suitable for many riders). So things looked ready to go . . .

   And then I tried riding the bike and encountered a serious problem. Whenever I tried to increase the resistance to even a mildly strenuous level the flywheel squealed terribly; worse yet, even when I tried to continue pedaling over the noise, it would simply lock up. I think this is because the bike uses cantilevers and pads with dense fabric instead of magnetic resistance. In other words, when one turns the resistance knob the pads press against the flywheel, sort of like brake pads on a bike. I believe that the friction between the flywheel caused both the squealing and vibration that caused the resistance knob to rattle, thereby tightening the pads inadvertently.

   Needless to say, this was a source of great frustration and I tried all sorts of adjustments to the resistance knob, the cantilevers, and so on with no luck. I was VERY disappointed by the bike because I thought it was basically going to end up as a very expensive clothes horse. But I finally decided to try smearing each side of the rim of the flywheel with lubricant to reduce friction, not knowing what effect it would have on the material that covers the resistance pads.

   Long story short, this seems to have done the trick and now the bike works beautifully. I’m pretty active–mountain biking, in-line skating, martial arts–and it looks like the Sunny Pro will provide strenuous indoor workouts for a long time to come. I really do think it’s on par with much more expensive machines. Time will tell.

   For now, though, I’m giving it four stars because of the frustration I experienced initially. The solution I came upon may seem pretty obvious but it wasn’t included in the directions or in other posts so I thought I would share it. It’s made the bike functional instead of completely useless.

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3. Kathleen Delgado says:

   May 30, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I have been very pleased with my purchase. It is a very sturdy bike overall. The handle bars seem to wiggle back and forth a little bit, but it is the handle bars themselves, not the bike. It has good adjustment in the seat and handle bars, everyone in the house can use it.

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4. T says:

   May 10, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I love it, I really took my time and looked for the best bike for the best price,I read so many reviews. This is a great bike , well made, strong and very easy to put together. If I could say anything bad it would be: you have to change the pedals to ‘clips’ and no water bottle holder.

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5. R METRO says:

   May 3, 2010 at 12:00 am

   This bike is good .the price is also right .only came with some damage parts it took them some times to send a replacement parts .

   Thanks

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