Freed: Assembling my exercise bike is giving me the wrong kind of workout |
Biking has been dangerous this snowy winter, so I decided to boost my exercise by buying a stationary fitness bike, in a Black Friday sale.
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The only problem was I had to assemble it myself and construction isn’t my specialty. Destruction is.
Fortunately, while many fitness bikes take five hours to assemble, this model said: “Easy to assemble on your own in under 30 minutes.”
So I figured I could manage it in a couple of hours.
Guys are supposed to be handymen who are nuts about bolts. But for me, assembling or repairing anything is as intimidating as brain surgery.
My hands have the fine motor skills of a penguin’s flippers. My brain the mechanical instinct of a bear handed a fishing rod.
Friends call me Mr. Don’t-Fix-It, because anything I fix winds up more broken. So over the years I’ve gradually stopped repairing anything, which seems to suit........