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Foldable Treadmills

Foldable Treadmills - also described as "space saver treadmills" these offer the following advantages over their fixed counterparts:

Can be stored in less room than a fixed treadmill

Ease of cleaning underneath treadmill

Engineered to be stable even with folding facility

There are of course some disadvantages:

As a general rule, foldable treadmills occupy the cheaper end of the treadmill market.

The folding mechanism is an additional cost of manufacture so consequently a similar specified folding treadmill will cost more than a non-folding counterpart.

The folding mechanics have additional parts that may fail.

OK, lets examine some of these points in more detail.

Obviously, a foldable treadmill allows you to have a large exercise machine and store it in a relatively small space. This may be the ideal solution if you have an apartment or don't have the floor space for a fixed treadmill to occupy all of the time.

Treadmills tend to attract dust and dirt and this can lead to maintenance issues over time, so it is important to keep them clean. A folding treadmill with it's ease of access to the underside of the running deck greatly facilitates this.

Many people erroneously believe that foldable treadmills are less solid or are of inferior quality than fixed treadmills. In fact foldable treadmills usually have additional strengthening engineered into their design in order to accommodate the folding mechanism.

The fallacy that foldable treadmills are inferior to fixed treadmills probably comes about due to the fact that manufacturers make foldable treadmills predominately for the lower end (domestic market) where the facility to save space is important as opposed to the high end (commercial market) where the facility to save space is not an important requirement.

In essence when someone says that they believe that a foldable treadmill is inferior to a fixed treadmill, what they are usually doing is trying to compare a low or mid range domestic treadmill to a high end commercial treadmill which will have been engineered to withstand far greater use. This is irrespective of it's ability to fold up.

Finally, here are our listings for foldable treadmills that we have reviewed listed in order of price.

(click on the links to go to the review page for that individual treadmill)