However, after just 2 days of usage, it began to produce an annoying "swoosh" noise when I hit the pedal at low speed. And that's exactly the problem. While I do use it at higher speed one or twice a day, most of the time, I only hit it at low speed while I work as normal. The noise is driving me CRAZY. I am now turning on my TV to try covering it.
I am realistic. I expect that kind of noise would come up down the road, but TWO DAYS? Come on, Cubii.
UPDATE:
The noise is now gone -- I don't know why, but I can no longer hear it even when I hit the pedal at very low speed. So, I change my rating to a 5-star. I can also report that it does help losing weight. I received mine on Sept 6th, and it is now only Oct, 4th. With at least 13k to 15k daily steps on the Cubii and a slight reduction of my daily food intake, I have lost roughly 6 lbs in about a month.
UPDATE (2020/10/26):
The machine remains silent, so I am guessing whatever the problem was, it might just be a teething issue (can I even use this to describe a machine)? Anyway, this elliptical continues to amaze me. For one, I am still using it. That is quite an accomplishment by itself. I've gotten so used to it now, sometimes I had to force myself not to step on it while working. It kind of becomes a second nature to me. As for the weight loss front, another 3 lbs are gone since Oct, 4th. I am now down a bit over 9 lbs in roughly 1.5 months. Who would think that it's possible by using this toy like underdesk elliptical. A bit of warning, though, I do quite a bit of workout on it daily. I would log about 10k steps of intensive run daily on it (I do it after dinner, usually takes about an hour), plus whatever I could do during the day while I am working (that goes anywhere from 5k to 10k).