The fire department in Frankfurt has upgraded and switched to
Emergency vehicles with pedals
Please note the blue fire water bucket on the front.
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Archive for the ‘Allgemein’ Category
Crazy Flash IV Addendum
星期五, 十月 29th, 2010Eigude Shame Part X
星期二, 十月 26th, 2010I might seem to be a notorious complainer sometimes, but some companies get away with stuff that’s a bit too cheeky.
The photos were made on 05.10.2010.
Tested “good” by the German product test foundation in 4/2006!
When the DVDs were tested I was still pedestrian.
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Signs Part V
星期二, 十月 26th, 2010This sign kindly indicates that the way ends 100 meters further ahead on the mole at the sea.
If you are not Jesus of Nazareth, it is also dead end for any pedestrian.
Eigude Shame II Addendum
星期二, 十月 26th, 2010对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Technical Aids Tips und Tricks XIX
星期日, 十月 10th, 2010I think that this special pen might be quite helpful for many fellows who can’t grip very well any more. It is also available rubberized. This pen was probably developed by a concerned person.
I think the
special pen
is great.
If you don’t have much power to write I recommend DVD labelling pens.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XVIII
星期六, 十月 9th, 2010The market for technical aids is huge.
There is almost everything you can imagine in the broadest sense. The problem is not only that this stuff is unreasonably expensive, but also apparently nobody has ever tested it.
The Taiwanese fabricate a basically ingenious key holder, like a Suisse Army Knife.
This can be found in almost every catalogue for technical aids.
Because of its size the key holder can be grasped even with limited finger functions. If the key is stuck in the lock the holder is bent by 90° so that you can open the lock due to the big lever with your “little finger”!!!
Attention: If someone else wants to open a door with your key holder please point out to him that a key can be broken off quickly with this technical aid.
The bad thing is that our European keys are a little thicker than the Asian ones and therefore don’t fit in. Such technical aids disappear in the cupboard, like the food processer from the home shopping channel. I have adjusted my
Key holder
accordingly (filed the slots and provided with a longer screw), and I am using it daily.
Last year on the rehab fair I have pointed out this deficit to the Taiwanese. Yesterday I was at the Rehacare in Düsseldorf, but I didn’t see the key holder any more.
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Signs Part IV
星期四, 十月 7th, 2010We wheelers are often treated a little childlike.
I am not annoyed with anybody if he is patting my head in the last moment of saying goodbye.
That’s just the way it is if you are just 1,38 m small.
But if it will ever occur to anyone to spit on a tissue to wipe a spot off my face then only steel-toed boots protect him from my wheels.
For the city of Frankfurt all wheelers seem to be like children.
In the zoo a playground was built especially for us active wheelers. Actually this signage can’t be interpreted differently.
active wheeler’s playground
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Rollituning Part XV
星期日, 九月 26th, 2010So hin und wieder bin sogar ich mal sprachlos.
Das ich Eintracht- Frankfurt Fußballfan bin ist ja kein Geheimnis.
Mein Cousin hat mir einen offiziellen
Eintracht – Frankfurt – Fanrucksack
geschenkt. Ich habe natürlich sofort positiv festgestellt, dass der Rucksack reichlich Reflektoren hat.
Dieser Rucksack hat zusätzlich oben an den Seiten 2 Schlaufen.
Der einzige logische Sinn dieser Schlaufen wäre, damit den Rucksack über die Griffe eines Rollis hängen zu können.
Einfach spitze, es “geht” doch!
Rollischlaufen
War es ein Produktionsfehler, oder der Designer ein Rollifahrer?
Für andere Fußballvereine ist der Rucksack natürlich “nicht” verfügbar.
Please keep our disabled parking places free!
星期三, 九月 15th, 2010Sometimes you have to be lucky!
星期二, 九月 14th, 2010Some days ago I made a ride on my hand cycle.
(see older blogpost, trade hand cycle off for therapy pony).
My wife accompanied me on her bicycle.
I was more than positively surprised that the city of Frankfurt eventually managed to tar the old gravel path on the river Main after centuries.
It was going downstream, the cycle was rolling and rolling…
Unfortunately there is an express highway between the bicycle path on the river and two districts of the city. Because I can’t take the pedestrian bridge with my wheelchair and wanted to go to the street fair in one of the districts I had to ride further until after perceived 20 km, probably really 3 km, there was eventually a traffic light.
I had fairly shot my bolt.
After a bratwurst and a hop blossom ice tea * my motivation for the return ride was shattered.
When I was slowly riding home, I already fancied using the tram, I coincidentally met a former colleague, let’s call him Harald, with his
Didi Thurau – Memory Bicycle.
(translator’s note: famous German road bicycle racer from the 70’s and 80’s)
We had rather the same destination.
He pushed me sitting on his bike!
Without breaks, we reached a top speed of up to
26 Km/h on the 8 km way home.
My electric wheelchair tractive Speedy-Elektro only makes
max. 6 Km/h, otherwise it would need a license plate.
If Harald should have had a license plate???
Thanks again from this side.
Comment of my wife:
I am not used to such a speed any more as I usually roll with perceived 5 km/h behind the hand cycle and my biggest sporty challenge is not to fall from the bike at this “speed”, so that today my muscles are kind of sore for the first time. 
*(In a narrower sense, beer is an alcoholic and carbonated beverage which is gained by fermentation mostly from the basic ingredients water, malt and hop). (Source: Wikipedia)
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Apologies!!!
星期一, 九月 13th, 2010On Sunday a young lady parked with her black New Beetle on my disabled parking place. I have completely overreacted and insulted this poor lady in the worst way possible when she came strutting with her noble handbag around her arm and the car key in her hand.
I would like to officially apologize for my slightly risen voice at this stage.
She explained that she hadn’t seen neither the signage nor the labeling, and she didn’t understand my reaction at all.
Retrospectively I am sorry that I didn’t believe her affirmation of innocence.
She had only parked for 10 minutes.
Kind of strange when shortly afterwards her mother, aunt or so came along and told that she stated at her visit that she was parking with her car on a disabled parking place.
A little suspect!
Perhaps she takes the same pills like me and is slightly confused as well.
When she was driving away she must have accidently slipped from the clutch with her foot, otherwise her racing start is not explicable for me.
As excuse I would like to offer her to please send me an e-mail before her next visit so that I drive away my car on time to make my disabled parking place free for her.
Comments requested!
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XVII
星期二, 九月 7th, 2010With my
“Buckled Fingers”,
I know politically correct it is of course just an impairment of motor skills of hands and fingers, it is
not possible for me any more
to start a fire with a customary
lighter or matches.
A couple of years ago this was still essential for survival.
Nowadays it is fortunately not that important any more, provided that you are in possession of a functional microwave and central heating.
I had quit smoking a couple of months before the accident so that I didn’t bother specifically about making fire in the last 2,5 years.
Rather by coincidence I noticed that these
long gas lighters
can be operated without any finger function.
Now even I can light a tea candle again.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XVI
星期日, 八月 29th, 2010As wheelchair using quadriplegic rainy weather simply sucks!
With wet rubber hand rims it is hardly possible for me to turn the driving wheels so that I can’t move any more.
It would be just a bit inconvenient to take a shower undesirably for the second time in a day, but if I am standing on a hillside the braking gets a bit critical respectively almost impossible.
Such a big
rain cape for cyclists
is in my opinion a good and low price solution.
It doesn’t always have to have a medical device number.
My hand rims stay dry to a large extent.
The cape should be shortened appropriately.
Be careful that it doesn’t get in the wheels.
Spoke protector discs are beneficial.
Ducks like water, but I haven’t seen something like this before.
It is raining day and night there.
This duck probably has
neoprene feathers
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Flower ramp
星期六, 八月 28th, 2010Also this year, my neighbour has planted flowers at my
2 m³ concrete ramp
and turned it to a
flower ramp
Simply brilliant, thanks from this side, looks great.
The floridity meanwhile turns into a jungle-like status.
It‘s growing and growing!
Another two weeks, and I need a machete when I want to leave the house.
I was training this situation already in the botanical garden in Frankfurt.
Click on tags “Ramp”. 
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Signs Part III
星期三, 八月 25th, 2010Ich bin zwar im Besitz eines gültigen Führerscheins für ein auf Handgas umgebautes Auto (siehe älteren Beitrag), habe aber nie eine
Rollifahrer- Fahrprüfung
abgelegt, ansonsten wäre mir diese
Bodenmarkierung in Verbindung mit einem Halteverbotsschild
mitten auf der Straße sicherlich bekannt.
Ich verstehe das nicht.
Es ist kein markierter Behindertenparkplatz.
Könnte es sich um einen Stellplatz eines von einem Rollstuhlfahrer gelenkten Krakenfahrzeuges handeln ?
Ist ein Rollstuhl ein Krankenfahrzeug?
Helft mir, ich bin verwirrt…
