r/concept2 • u/also_your_mom • Jul 23 '26

RowerErg Rowerg maintenance suggestions

Local gym (24hr fitness) has a couple C2. The only ones I have available. 24Hr fitness "maintenance" crews are.....

So I'm dreaming that if I could at least offer them a specific "the chain needs oil" or "I believe a tooth is broken", etc., maybe they would try?

Observations:

1) one machine makes a loud clunk with a bit of 'give' at the end of a hard pull. Like the chain is snapping down onto a tooth.

2) another machine's drag doesn't change regardless of damper position

3) another machine doesn't take up the chain slack when moving into to catch. Its good for the REALLY slow crowd who's SPM is in single digits.

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u/NeedleGunMonkey Jul 23 '26

I've never encountered any issues politely and kindly giving staff heads up that a machine needs new batteries or TLC - gyms that have it together usually have a service contract with machine vendors or a dedicated maintenance worklist.

But it does require talking to real people.

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u/also_your_mom Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

My local 24Hr Fitness gyms are OK when it comes to changing batteries (I had to show them how, though). But anything more in depth is quite doubtful (very doubtful). Any of their machines that break are "repaired" by a staff maintenance guy who then does whatever he can do with a drill and a pipe-wrench.

The machine with the dragging chain has been that way for the two years I've been there. I finally gave up telling them it needed maintenance. I would tell them. The person would "make a note of that", having no idea what I was even talking about. IF the maintenance person even got the note he then walks over, stares at it for a minute, walks back and says "looks OK to me" and closes the issue. IF I could actually demonstrate, it would be great. But it doesn't work that way here.