Ultrasport F-Bike Folding Exercise Bike 286 lbs Capacity, Extra Silent with Relax Foam Seat I Exercise Bikes for Home Use, Exercise Bike Foldable, Indoor Bike, Stationary Bike

An excellent bike, especially for the price. I looked at similar style folding bikes in Argos, but a lot of people were complaining they were too small if you are over 5ft. I was recommended this F-Bike as it claimed it was suitable for those upto 6ft 1 and it did not disappoint! I'm just under 6ft and the bike is the perfect size for me (even with the seat height on the medium setting). Very easy to assemble, comes with all the nuts and bolts and includes the tool and easy instructions. Very sturdy and all the metal parts feel premium quality built to last. It has a good resistance level, although I couldn't really tell much difference between levels 1 through 7, it goes upto level 16 though which resembles a decent uphill incline. Back rest is a great feature and the computer has all the stats you'll ever need (even has a phone holder too!) My only issue is the seat comfort, even after upgrading it to a foam one since the previous model, it's still uncomfortable and you'll start to notice it after about 5km. I'd recommend getting a gel pad cover or something. Other than that, it's awesome! It's as quiet as a mouse, smooth, compact and easy to move around. I definitely made the right choice with this purchase.

My wife and I bought this bike as a way to keep active even whilst we are both very busy and with two kids so often unable to leave the house and go to the gym. I am 5ft11 and she is 5ft 3.ComfortWe were both immediately very impressed with the comfort of the bike. Very comfortable seat and handlebars. Crucially, the seat height is very quickly and easily adjusted so suit both of us which is very important because of our height difference.NoiseWith 2 sleeping kids in a small house noise was an important factor is choosing a bike. I'm amazed at house quiet this bike is. I was worried that I would need to put the volume on the TV quite high to hear it over the bike noise but it's actually not really necessary to put the volume up at all.ResistanceThis was a big concern for me when buying because I am a lot fitter than my wife, albeit it's been a few years since I've regularly exercised. Many reviews complained it barely gave them a workout. The main thing is to make sure you understand what you're buying and don't expect the bike to offer resistance similar to an exercise bike at a gym. You don't get anything like an uphill sensation. But as a fit 26 year old man I find the top level gives me a good workout at a level I can maintain for a long time. My wife will probably prefer to use a lower level.ComputerI find the computer very simple. Just one button to move between the different options to avoid any confusion. Tracking distance and calories and time all make it very easy to set clear goals which is ideal when starting a program.Storage & WeightFirst question is how easy/quick is it to fold and unfold. It's as simple as pulling out a pin and then re-inserting it. If , like us, you'll need to move it before and after using it then you'll need to consider weight too. Most men will find this easy to carry around. Many women will probably find it a little on the heavy/uncomfortable side like my wife. However it's certainly not too heavy for the vast majority of women to move around.AppearanceAppearance is probably low on your priority list, but it might come into consideration especially if it is going to be left out. We find the white colour of the bike and the curved design makes this a very attractive bike which fits in well with out mainly white furniture. After all most other bikes are black and fold in an X shape.AssemblyPutting the bike together is very easy and won't take you long at all. It took me about 20-25 minutes and can be done faster than that.

I had F-Bike for 7 years before the flywheel broke.This one is better. The seating is a bit lower so a smaller person can ride on it without stretching their legs. The highest strength seems to have more resistance too that that of F-Bike. The seat itself is heart shaped and much wider so feels a lot more comfortable than that of F-Bike.I don't care much about the backrest so not using it. The computer is also different. I need to figure out how to reset records. There is only one button so less convenient.All in all I'm happy with this so far.

This is, to put it mildly, an excellent bike. It costs a little more than most folding exercise bikes, but with good reason. It's much sturdier, than most, and far better made. It's very comfortable to ride, especially with the back-rest in place (initially I wasn't going to bother attaching this, as it makes the bike a few inches deeper when folded, and coming from using a regular bicycle in a trainer, I couldn't see how I'd need it, but gave it try just out of curiosity and found it to be wonderfully comfortable - which makes up for the seat being a bit hard), and is perfectly silent which is great when living in a block of flats, because the guy downstairs really doesn't want to hear your bike grinding away every day.My primary concerns over a folding bike versus a regular stationary one or a recumbent one were build quality, height as I'm reasonably short, and resistance levels. The build quality as I said is excellent, so no worries there. The height is also fine. I'm around 5'5" and have this comfortably set at the second lowest seat height. The lowest was too low. It's worth noting that most people who complain about exercise bikes being too tall for them perhaps don't realise where the optimum position for the seat on a bike actually is. It is not so that you can step over it to get on the thing. Rather, it is at the height which achieves the optimum angle of the knee when the pedal is the furthest from you - that angle being just before fully straight. If you sit on the bike, push the peddle to its furthest distance, and your knee is slight bent, then the height is correct. For me, that's the second position.For resistance, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Folding bikes invariably have a flywheel (the thing you're pedalling to turn) of no more than 1.5kg, which isn't very heavy. On its own therefore, it provides barely any resistance at all. It's like freewheeling. Larger, non-folding bikes often have wheels which are at least 4kg, often 6 or more. I was therefore concerned that 1.5kg, even with magnetic resistance kicking in, just wouldn't be enough. Not that I'm super fit or anything, I'm using a bike like this precisely because I'm not fit and and need to lose some weight, but I'm also not completely useless, so do need a reasonable amount of resistance for a cycling session to be worthwhile. I was therefore very pleased to discover that the third resistance setting on this bike felt more or less like the resistance I had on my regular bike in the trainer (which was in a pretty high gear on the bike, with the trainer itself on its second resistance setting). That means I've got five settings to go, which is excellent scope for the future, especially as I don't have time to spend hours on end every time I get on it.When folded up it's pretty small indeed thanks to the clever curved frame. Most other folding bikes have straight frames forming a standard 'X' shape when unfolded, but the curves on this one mean it closes up tighter. There's a locking bar that you pop in to stop it unfolding, and the feet still work in the folded position, so it stands upright by itself and doesn't need to be leant against anything. One word of warning though, it is pretty heavy. I've no problem lifting it and moving it around, but I can imagine some people might. Certainly my mother can't lift it easily. It also requires a bit of assembly, which isn't particularly difficult as the bulk of the frame comes assembled, you just have to attached the feet, handlebars, pedals, and saddle, but it does require turning it over a couple of times and being able to both move it reasonably easily, and hold it up while attaching parts. The box and packaging, while surprisingly good, doesn't add a great deal to the overall weight, so try lifting and moving it before unpacking it. If it's too difficult at that point, then you're probably going to need another person to help you assemble it, even if all you need them to do is hold it upright for you while you operate the spanner.The computer is... well, like any such computer really. It's lightweight (feels a bit cheap, in honesty), AAA battery powered (supplied), and has settings for distance, speed, pulse, calories, etc. There's no way the calorie measure can be accurate. How could it? It's a bit silly even having it, not because this computer is no good at measuring it accurately, just because it can't be measured accurately without some serious and very specific biological information that a device like this simply can't have. However, the speed and distance measures seem pretty accurate to me. I've no idea on the pulse one as I'm not really interested in it, but the bike does have sensors on each handle bar for your palms so that it can measure your pulse and therefore heart rate and I would expect these will work as well as any similar device can work.The bike has one, tiny design flaw, and that is you can't have both the seat back, and the computer, on at the same time when it's folded, in most seating positions. With the seat extended to the tallest settings, it's ok, but for most of the lower settings when you fold it the seat back presses directly on the button of the computer, keeping the computer on permanently, cycling through its settings. If you want to use both the seat back and the computer, and need the seat at a shorter setting, then the only way to prevent this is to remove the computer when you fold it up (because that's easier than removing the seat back every time), or take the batteries out after use - which is not actually a bad thing to do anyway as most electrical devices do slowly drain batteries when not in use anyway.Apart from that one small niggle, based on the build quality as it appears to me, and the pleasant surprise with the quality of the resistance mechanism, I expect to be using this bike for a long time.