Concept2

Concept2 began in 1976, when brothers Dick and Peter Dreissigacker moved into an abandoned farm in Vermont to build carbon rowing oars. To keep training through the winter, Peter nailed an old bicycle to the barn floor and pulled on the chain – the first rowing ergometer.

That became the RowErg, the reference machine of the sport: it sits in nearly every rowing club, is used in competition, and makes results comparable worldwide through the PM5 monitor. SkiErg and BikeErg followed. Spare parts stay available for decades, and updates usually fit older machines too.