aaron wrote:Hobie-wan wrote:cityside75 wrote:*exertainment bike*
Game - $1.99
Controller - $1.99
Console Base - $1.99
AC Adaptor - $.99
Exercise Bike - $9.99
Total with tax of $18 and change.
Very nice find. I wouldn't want to keep it either, but surely someone else would and it would have probably ended up half trashed for sure.
Also, yay Scooby wagon. I just got a Saabaru myself.
i'm in awe of the exertainment bike, but i'm more happy with the amount of subaru's on the board. '95 impreza L wagon here.
My WRX is without question the finest car I've ever owned, and I've had some pretty decent cars. It's endlessly useful with its space, and endlessly fun, especially this time of year.
A quick update on the bike for anyone interested...I hooked it up and the console wasn't seeing the bike. I suspected the power supply may not have been the correct one, so I tried to do some googling for specs. This is how I know the thing is rare, google could find almost nothing. I searched every term and avenue I could think of including newsgroups, cached pages, archives, etc. Finally on about my millionth search term variation I stumbled on a pdf of the instruction manual buried on some random website. Fortunately it had the specs and I found my power supply was in fact wrong (I had 9v and this thing requires 13.5).
I also opened the bike up and found a couple of loose and disconnected wires. I hooked it all back together and fired it up with the correct power supply...it works! I plan on posting a video of this thing soon, I'll post a link here once I put it up. It's actually really cool! I'm a cyclist in the non-winter months, so I'm appreciating the challenge it provides...it had my heart rate way up in the fitness test, that's for sure.
My short term plans are to replace the pedals and handlebar grips, at which point it will look like new. Then it will be time to decide what I'm gonna do with this thing.
