What to Keep in an Allegro 2 Pilates Reformer Wholesale Spring Spec

Picture two buyers opening the same specification page for the Balanced Body Allegro 2 Reformer — this model, this page version, nothing wider. One writes the included spring set into the bill of materials as a fixed line, five Signature Springs, 3 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow, and keeps the optional DURO Springs on a separate approval line; sample sign-off becomes five tick boxes. Compress it to "five springs," and at sign-off the count, the color split and the optional spring line are all arguable. I read the spring line, the DURO line and the footbar positions side by side on that page, and only one of the three is a hard parts list worth defending.

The Five-Spring Set Is the Only Fixed BOM Line

Signature Springs is the manufacturer's name for its color-coded spring set. Springs are what the carriage works against; the set is how they are counted and identified in a specification. What ships in the box is five springs: 3 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow. That sentence carries exactly two checkable attributes — how many springs, and how many of each color — and nothing else. I went back to the same line looking for a resistance value and found none: no pound or kilogram figure attached to a red, blue or yellow spring, no spring rate, and no statement that these springs fit another frame or another factory's spring system. Buyers who read color as a tension scale are reading a parts list as a performance spec, and the difference only surfaces when a sample is compared against the document.

Write the BOM line as text, not as a photograph. "Five springs" is not a specification; "5 springs total, 3 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow, per-color quantity confirmed in writing" is. Ask the supplier to confirm the split by color, because a phone photo of a spring set does not survive a language handoff, and a verbal "five" survives it even less. One change, no cost at RFQ, and the only argument the included set is capable of generating at approval is gone.

Optional DURO Springs Need Their Own Approval Line

DURO Springs™ appear on the same page as an optional item positioned for high-traffic group Reformer classes. Optional and included are two different procurement objects with two different approval paths. Merged into a single "spring package" line, a quoted price stops telling you which item it covers, and a sample arrives with no way to accept half of it. Kept apart, the line buys one practical result: a buyer can sign off the included set and still hold DURO as unapproved, instead of accepting or rejecting the whole unit over a spring nobody has decided on yet.

What the page leaves open becomes the inquiry list: whether DURO is available on a custom build, what it costs per unit, what the minimum order is, whether the spring structure matches the included set, and whether the color codes keep the same meaning once DURO is fitted. None of those answers appears on the page I read. Send the five questions with the RFQ; the answers decide whether DURO belongs on the first purchase order at all.

Footbar Positions Verify Fit, Not Resistance

Think of the footbar as the bar the feet or hands press against; moving it changes body angle and leverage. The Infinity Footbar® adjusts vertically in 4 positions, including down, and slides horizontally the full length of the frame to 9 positions. Both counts are structural: you can move the bar on a physical sample and count the detents, no instrument required, and neither number says anything about spring load.

A common error is writing "9 resistance levels" into a spec sheet — a claim the manufacturer never made, and a mismatch that surfaces the moment a buyer tries to hold a supplier to it. The counts describe where the bar can sit. Resistance comes from which springs are engaged. Those are two columns in the document, and blending them costs a reprint and an argument at approval. All of this is scoped to the named model and the page version recorded here, not to the category.

Three Contradictions to Resolve Before You Ask for Price

On that same page sit two conflicts a buyer should not smooth over. The vertical-storage accessory list names both a Wheel Kit and a Wall Security Strap as required items, while the storage FAQ describes the Wall Security Strap as optional. One of those statements is wrong, or one applies to a configuration the other does not; I cannot tell which from the page, and the manufacturer can. A third question follows from whatever the answer is: does it change once legs are fitted? Ask all three in writing before a price is quoted.

Height is the second conflict, and the one most likely to be quietly merged. Recorded, the frame dimension line reads 94 L x 31.25 W x 15 H inches including footbar, with legs; the page also describes height in more than one form, and those descriptions do not agree. Pick nothing, average nothing, and do not compress the answer into a round number for a quote, because freight class, ceiling clearance and door width all get priced off whatever number you wrote down.

Weight as recorded is 148 lb (67 kg) without legs and 155 lb (70 kg) with them. Quote those as values tied to this model, and label which configuration each one describes rather than presenting one of them as the shipping weight. A quote built on a merged number comes back as a re-quote, and the delay lands on your sample date, not the factory's.

The Check Order From RFQ to Sample Sign-Off

Pin the model. Pin the page version. Split the BOM into included and optional lines. Turn every contradiction into a written question. Name who approves color and who approves options. Price nothing until the answers land.

I noticed early that the whole reference set — spring counts, DURO positioning, footbar stops, dimensions, weights — is bound to one page version, which makes an unversioned product link a weak basis for a quote and makes the fourth step the expensive one to invert, because a price released before the questions are answered absorbs every open contradiction into a number nobody on either side can defend when the unit arrives with a strap the accessory list calls required and a FAQ that calls it optional, and the argument stops being about the reformer and becomes about who agreed to what.

Two items belong in the sequence before money moves. Custom upholstery is recorded as 29 colors, final sale and not returnable, so whoever holds approval on color needs to be named in writing — a wrong color is not a return, it is a write-off. Optional items need an approver separate from the person who signs for the base unit, otherwise "approved" collapses into one signature that quietly covers everything on the sheet.

At sign-off I would put only what the document fixed on that sheet: per-color spring count, footbar detents, storage accessories against whichever answer the manufacturer returned. The resistance column stays empty. No figure was quoted, so none can be checked, and inventing a pass mark would put a number in the file that nothing in the reference set supports.

How Much of This Spec Survives an OEM Re-Label

Everything above is scoped to the Balanced Body Allegro 2 Reformer and the captured page version. Spring count and color split, DURO's optional position, the 4-and-9 footbar stops, the 94 x 31.25 x 15 inch frame, the 148 and 155 lb weights, 29 upholstery colors — none of it transfers automatically to another factory, another model, or a private-label build. Color-coded spring sets are a manufacturer-specific naming system: red is a specification to one supplier and a word to the next.

On a re-label project these become questions backed by your own supplier's documentation, not defaults carried across an ocean. The tradeoff cuts both ways: reusing the numbers shortens the RFQ and keeps the sample sheet readable, and it shifts the evidence burden onto you at incoming inspection, where an undocumented color-coded set is five springs in a box and nothing you could produce for a customer or a claims adjuster.

So this specification is not for the buyer who wants one spring line to cover several factories, or who reads DURO's group-class positioning as a tested durability claim rather than a manufacturer statement about intended use. It is for the small-batch OEM and wholesale buyer who needs a BOM line to tick against a physical sample, with the five-spring set fixed, the figure conflicts asked rather than averaged, and DURO held as a separate approved item until the supplier answers in writing.