The only way fitness equipment manufacturers can make a profit on cheap treadmills is by loading them with poorly made parts and motors. Limiting your shopping to cheap treadmills will doom you to finding, in a matter of months, that your machine’s motor or electronic console is failing. Given the short duration of the warranties on most cheap treadmills, you could end up with a useless and very large fitness machine hogging your living space until you can find someone to take it off your hands.
August 29, 2008