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Historically treadmills have been the most popular home exercise equipment, providing convenient and healthy walking/running experiences to folks in both sunny and snowy weather. Running a close second in popularity are elliptical trainers that provide a great cardio effort with the added benefit of a low-impact workout. That is, unless the footplates detach during use delivering the very real potential for a high-impact fall!
This is the case with the Schwinn 460 Elliptical Trainer manufactured by Nautilus Incorporated. About 10,000 of the exercise equipment was recalled on December 6, 2011 for the loosening of the footplates that have created nine incidents of the plates detaching and one report of the user falling off and hitting his knee.
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| A medallion with the Schwinn logo is on the bottom right side of the base of the machine. |
At a retail cost of about $1000 each, the trainers were sold nationwide at a wide variety of specialty and sporting goods retail stores, as well as online sites. Units involved in the recall were sold from July 2008 though May 2011.
Consumers are advised to stop using the trainers immediately and contact Nautilus Inc. for a free repair kit, along with an extended warranty. The company can be contacted via phone at (800) 259-9019, or on the Schwinn website at http://www.schwinn.com.
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