Introduction
If you are looking to buy a good quality recumbent bike for your home, there are no shortage of options these days. Many of the best ones can cost upwards of $2000, but the up and coming fitness brand Niceday have produced one that is a fraction of the price.
The Niceday Indoor Recumbent Bike is an exceptionally strong machine that can accommodate anyone up to 400 pounds, and it will help you to burn calories, lose weight and improve your fitness level without being hard on your joints.
One thing that I really like about this one is that it offers 16 levels of resistance, unlike the standard 8, so you can really vary the intensity of your workouts, but let’s take a look at this exercise bike in more depth to examine all of the main features and benefits, as well as the main pros and cons.
Features and Benefits
- 16 levels of magnetic resistance
- LED display with phone/iPad holder
- track time, speed, distance, calories and pulse
- ergonomic adjustable sport seat with foam padding
- includes pulse sensors and water bottle holder
- adjustable foot straps
- easy to assemble (90% pre-assembled)
- easy to move around
- smooth and super quiet in operation
- suitable for anyone between 4’9 and 6’3
- accommodates users up to 400 pounds
- comes with lifetime warranty service
Product Dimensions / Weight
This Niceday recumbent exercise machine has a relatively small footprint with exact dimensions of 50 (L) x 23 (W) x 45 (H) inches, and it weighs about 45 kg, so it won’t be too difficult to move around your home should you so wish, particularly as it has rollers on the front and back.
Positives
As with any recumbent exercise bicycle, this Niceday recumbent bike will enable you to work out in a more relaxed position in the comfort of your own home.
There is an ergonomic sport seat that has foam padding on the bottom for added comfort and a curved mesh back support that is based on the latest waist support technology, and can be adjusted upwards, downwards, forwards and backwards into 8 different positions to help you find the one that feels the best.
This makes it suitable for anyone between 4’9 and 6’3, and because it has an exceptionally strong frame and build quality, it can also support anyone up to 400 pounds.
You will also notice that there are handles to the side of the seat which will help you to relax, making it ideal for watching TV or listening to music, for example, while your feet and legs do all of the work.
There are pulse sensors built into the handles, which enables you to monitor your heart rate while exercising, and this will be displayed on the LED display, along with other performance metrics, such as time, speed, distance covered and calories burned. There is even a phone / iPad holder above the display that you can use to keep yourself entertained during your workout.
The real benefit of this particular Niceday Indoor Recumbent Bike, however, is the range of resistance because unlike many of the mid-range recumbent bikes in the same price range, this one has 16 magnetic resistance levels instead of 8.
Therefore you can really vary the intensity of your workout routines because levels 1 and 2 will be fairly easy and ideal for seniors and for gentle rehabilitation-type workouts, for instance, while levels 14, 15 and 16 will challenge even the fittest of athletes and will really push you to the limit.
Indeed some people said that the resistance at these higher levels was even greater than some of the commercial-grade machines that they have used in their local gym, and reported that it delivers consistent uniform resistance at each level thanks to the 16 high quality neodymium magnets that it uses.
The workout itself is therefore guaranteed to be smooth, challenging and consistent, but it is also very quiet in operation as well, which is always a key requirement of any home fitness machine.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that this Niceday bike is very easy to assemble out of the box and should take you no more than around 30-45 minutes because it will already be pre-assembled to some degree.
There are handles and rollers on the front and back frames to help you move it around the house, and if anything does happen to go wrong with this machine, it is backed by a lifetime warranty service and there is a 24 hour after-sales phoneline that you can call at any time.
Negatives
One slight drawback of this machine is that although it can accommodate users between 4’9 and 6’3, it will not feel comfortable for very short people or very tall people who fall outside of this range.
So this is something to bear in mind if you are purchasing a recumbent bike that you and your partner can both use.
Another slight issue concerns the LED display because some people complained that it was a little hard to read in dark conditions. Furthermore, it is a very simple display with no scenery or fitness app compatibility or Bluetooth functionality, like some of the other recumbent bikes have.
Final Thoughts
Overall, despite having a very simple display console, the Niceday Indoor Recumbent Exercise Bike is a mid-range model that should be more than sufficient for those people who are looking to burn lots of calories, lose weight, improve their fitness or recover from injury, for example.
The sturdy design and wide range of resistance levels more than make up for this minor shortcoming, with some people commenting that it offers a better workout that some of the gym machines that they have used.
So this machine appears to be ideal for home use, particularly as it is very smooth and quiet in operation, and easy to move around.