Recumbent Exercise Bike

Okay, so this IS NOT a commercial piece of equipment, let's get that out of the way entirely right now. But, it helped me recover from knee surgery, so it'll always have a place in my heart. We bought it prior to having a home gym, per se. We always had a treadmill (living in a perennially wet climate, we liked having the option for indoor cardio), so this just went next to the treadmill. It felt cheap. It is cheap. In every sense. Bare bones, and low cost. But definitely did what it was supposed to do. The problem was, we took it partially apart to get it into the moving van and after we moved into our house, it never worked right again. So if you buy this, don't ever take it apart. We tossed it out, but after some time, my knees are getting cranky again. So we decided to get another one about 2 years ago. It was just too flimsy for us now that we are accustomed to having a great home gym. So we donated it to the parish priest and ended up with a Precor commercial recumbent bike. The difference is startling. And we paid $400 for the used Precor while this thing is retailing now for $200. That is a no-brainer if you can move the awkward Precor to get it into your home (or similar, I see sub $500 commercial pieces around me all the time). I paid $119 the first time I bought this bike, but I paid $249 the second time, the value is no longer there.