Concept2 SkiErg
The same flywheel and monitor as the RowErg, driven with your arms and trunk — and the only piece here that mounts to a wall.
Specs
| Resistance | Air, flywheel with damper |
|---|---|
| Monitor | PM5 |
| Frame | Aluminium |
| Cord | High-strength synthetic drive cord |
| Machine weight | 41 lb (18.6 kg) |
| Wall-mounted footprint | 20.5 in wide at the top, 16 in deep, 85 in high |
| Floor stand footprint | 23.5 x 50 x 85 in |
| Wide floor stand footprint | 32 x 52 x 85 in |
| Floor stand weight | 35 lb |
| Power | Two D cell batteries, plus the spinning flywheel |
These figures are copied from Concept2’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with Concept2 before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You have wall space but no floor space, and mounting is allowed
- You want a hard conditioning piece that loads your arms, lats and trunk instead of your legs
- You already own a RowErg and want a second modality on the same numbers
The detail
The SkiErg is a RowErg turned vertical. Same air flywheel, same PM5 monitor, same watts on the same scale — so a hard interval here is directly comparable to one on the rower or the BikeErg. What changes is the muscle: double-poling drives from the lats, triceps and trunk rather than the legs, which makes it one of the few genuinely upper-body-dominant conditioning machines.
The wall mount is the practical argument. At 41 lb and 16 inches deep, a wall-mounted SkiErg occupies roughly a doorway’s worth of wall and no floor at all — the smallest footprint of anything in this category. That requires studs you can locate and a wall you are allowed to modify; the floor stand exists for everyone else, at 23.5 by 50 inches, and the wide stand is 32 inches across for more stability.
The 85 inch height is the constraint people miss. That is just over seven feet before you add the mount, and you need the cord to travel above it — so a low-ceilinged basement rules this out where it would happily take a rower.
Everything that makes the other two Concept2 machines easy to live with applies here: no subscription, no account, D-cell batteries, and a company that still supplies parts for machines from the 1990s. And the same drawback: air resistance is loud.