Robbies,
No, no disturbances in pedal travel in mine at all, only beef by now is that the straps/pedal setup on both sides results in shoe rubbing unless one wears the thinnest shoes.
I'll swap pedals with ones from an old bike when I get the chance.
Rudy,
Take a look at the folks at
http://www.efitnessdirect.com/product-347.html, I bought an '04 ErgoRacer for about the price mentioned including shipping. Any doubts ask for Andy, they are good guys, will buy again from them anyday.
P.s.: I'm in the US and the current model still only comes with a metric-only console, not the end of the world but annoying to keep converting the Km to Miles.
Kettler said the new US console would not be available until Feb, and the guys at eFitnessdirect promised they'd swap it out then, good enough for me.