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Exercise Bike

I've got a Reebok CyberRider which was stored under my bed for a few months. I built it up last night to find that the resistance doesn't work, it's permanently off. I've tried putting brand new batteries in it and that hasn't helped.

Anybody got any ideas?

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  • DatabaseError
    DatabaseError Posts: 4,161 Forumite
    doesn't it need plugging into the mains?
    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.
  • mparter
    mparter Posts: 411 Forumite
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    doesn't it need plugging into the mains?

    Nope, it works of batteries.
  • Taffybiker
    Taffybiker Posts: 927 Forumite
    Could be a failed motor. Check posts 51 - 54.
    Try saying "I have under-a-pound in my wallet" and listen to people react!
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,512 Forumite
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    mparter wrote: »
    Nope, it works of batteries.
    I would not have thought that batteries would have enough juice to power anything but the digital display on an exercise bike. Are you sure there is not a friction strap on the wheel that controls the resistance?
  • Taffybiker
    Taffybiker Posts: 927 Forumite
    thor wrote: »
    I would not have thought that batteries would have enough juice to power anything but the digital display on an exercise bike. Are you sure there is not a friction strap on the wheel that controls the resistance?

    Apparently, the resistance is created by magnetism.
    Try saying "I have under-a-pound in my wallet" and listen to people react!
  • mparter
    mparter Posts: 411 Forumite
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    Don't know how it works but it does use magnetic resistance.
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