{"id":1000,"date":"2007-03-03T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2007-03-03T06:26:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T14:26:07","slug":"exercise-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/exercise-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So FedEx came yesterday to deliver my exercise bike (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Browse\/Product.aspx?Prodid=11175356\">Everlast E260 Upright Exercise Bike<\/a>) I had purchased from Costco, but unfortunately they needed my signature, which I provided today on the little slip they left me. I came home today and there&#8217;s this giant box sitting in front of my door. I did get home after 11pm today, but after dinner, I started building it. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB000LXH0AE&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Stranger Than Fiction<\/a> was being played. I had started watching the movie during dinner. The movie ended and I started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB000LC3ICE&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Employee of the Month<\/a>. Funny thing was this movie was filmed inside a Costco (or a look-alike) which they renamed to Super Club. I finished building the bike halfway through this movie, despite having to take it apart multiple times because as a guy I made assumptions about the instructions and when I had multiple parts left over, I had to consult the manual.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the finished product:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/v\/misc\/IMG_6410.JPG.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/11977-2\/IMG_6410.JPG\" alt=\"Everlast E260 Upright Exercise Bike\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/v\/misc\/IMG_6409.JPG.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/11974-2\/IMG_6409.JPG\" alt=\"Everlast E260 Upright Exercise Bike\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the front leg of this bike has wheels, so I just lift the behind and push it to the center of the living room (in front of the couch) and exercise as I watched the remainder of the movie. Initially I had the arms more upright, but it was blocking a chunk of the movie, so I decided to lower it. Since I no longer have the Pro Club membership, I get an extra $2xx per year, so this bike&#8217;s mostly paid for by the extra cash, so I don&#8217;t really have any qualms.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Costco, I was looking at my latest American Express bill and noticed a $25 charge at Issaquah Costco on the exact same day of my TV purchase where the total came up to be $18xx. I was like, I couldn&#8217;t have gone back to Costco and made another purchase. That was the day I had to call up Derek to come help me with loading the TV in my car. I was thinking&#8230; did I get Costco gasoline that day. Could&#8217;ve been it, but somewhere down the bill, I noticed that the merchant for Costco gas is different from the Costco store. I start digging for my TV bill and was wondering maybe they made 2 separate charges. Found the bill, but the amount matches the $18xx amount on my credit card bill.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m scratching my head and thinking what could it have been. I decided to print my credit card bill and go to Costco and ask them what the $25 charge was for when I remember&#8230; That was for my membership upgrade from Gold to Executive. That&#8217;s right, I wanted to take advantage of the extra 2% I get back, which I completely made back already with this purchase (the 2 extra % will bump me to $36 extra in rebates).  That got me thinking, the difference between the Gold and Executive membership is $50. How did they decide on the $25 charge. I got my membership sometime in August, so it&#8217;s little over half the year already, so that would most likely be the reason for only charging half the membership fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So FedEx came yesterday to deliver my exercise bike (Everlast E260 Upright Exercise Bike) I had purchased from Costco, but unfortunately they needed my signature, which I provided today on the little slip they left me. I came home today and there&#8217;s this giant box sitting in front of my door. I did get home &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/exercise-bike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exercise Bike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}