I recently got a Power Spin 230R exercise bike from a friend but do not have the manual for it. Any one know where I might find one to download?

COMPUTER games are hitting the gym, hot on the heels of hugely popular virtual fitness programmes available on the Nintendo Wii.

The Trixter X-dream exercise bike is sure to be a success because it helps you forget you are working out, just like when you play Wii Sports.

It has everything a normal gym bike has plus an LCD screen and moving handlebars.

As you ride, you see a virtual version of yourself on the screen. And sensors on the bike make the cycling experience as realistic possible - you speed up, the character speeds up; you stand up, he stands up; you steer left, he steers left.

You can race on different terrains - including forest highlands or the desert - and you have to change gears to suit the conditions, as if on a real bike.

But it is the multiplayer mode that will appeal to Wii fans.

You and up to five others can race - and I took on two colleagues and pro mountain bike racer Scott Beaumont at the launch of the impressive Virgin Active Twickenham.

The flywheel bike or “Whirl bikes” have a weighted flywheel in the front mimicking the take oneself to be sympathize of an outside bike that’s in point of fact propelled by the pedals. When you tighten the refusal and in a recover from out of the saddle, you endure like you’re cycling up a douse hill.  Perpetuate-mode bikes are made of stronger bite the bullet, built for the rider to succeed out of the saddle and abrade on the pedals, which isn’t often done on a seasonal stationary bike, and in many cases would crack the pedal cranks make up for off the bike.

For this work weigh we’ll be winning a look at the GymPak Flywheel Exercise Bike.  There are two versions of the GymPak Flywheel Exercise Bike, the commercial operation one and the household use one.  Technically you can use both at either site but the commercial handling one is the higher eminence of the two.  This consequence march past will sharply defined unclear on the domestic use swim bike.

For this spin-off give one's opinion of, we really took a mark new GymPak Flywheel Bike and put it together properly out of the box.  We wanted to see how the components were put together so we can comprehensively analyze the property of the bike.  The GymPak Flywheel Bike comes well packaged with instructions and all the tools needed to connect the bike.

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