Cowmew Cross Trainer, 8 kg Flywheel, 150 kg Capacity

Eighth in this guide is the Cowmew cross trainer: an elliptical with a stated 8 kg flywheel, 16 magnetic resistance levels, a 150 kg maximum user weight, and a display the spec table gives as 10 Inches, listed at £212.49.

The complaint this guide makes about its cheaper entries is that the same 6 kg flywheel and the same 100 x 53 x 162 cm frame are sold twice, at £164.99 and £199.99, so £35.00 of that difference buys a badge. The Cowmew is a third price again — £47.50 above the cheaper of those two — and its listing points at hardware instead: 8 kg of flywheel rather than 6 kg, and a stated 150 kg limit. It is less tidy with its own numbers. The 4.4 out of 5 comes from 17 ratings, and sits alongside a breakdown of 67% five-star, 14% four-star, 10% three-star and 9% two-star — percentages that cannot be split into 17 whole ratings, since 9% of 17 is about one and a half machines. Everything on this page is taken from the Cowmew Amazon listing, not from testing we have carried out.