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12 x 2 Offroad Wheelchair, just cool this vehicle, it is currently for sale, 6,5 HP, 4 km/h, with starter cable.
Of course without inspection of the technical control association.
With this vehicle up to the next street fair… 
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On Saturday I was on a “development training” on the rehabilitation fair in Karlsruhe.
I am especially interested to test technical aids.
This is even more fun with prototypes. This
is just stuck on the footrest of the wheelchair. A stud bolt is clamped to the footrest before, and off it “goes”. (Only suitable for wheelchairs with rigid-welded frame).
I didn’t reach maximum speed due to my survival instinct. Without anti-tipper on the wheelchair it’s a little tricky…
I don’t consider the name slave as suitable.
The thing is very handy, you can quasi tuck it under your arm, and it is quite light with its approx. 9 kg.
To quickly drive to the bakery without having to transfer to the electric wheelchair it can be rather useful. If you have other ideas for possible applications please write a comment.
You should better be careful that your nephew doesn’t mount the little tractive secretly to his child scooter.
I would have probably done it
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Everybody who knew me before my accident still remembers that I couldn’t sit quietly for 5 minutes. I am catching up this time now intensively.
The bad thing with a para-/quadriplegia is that often all muscles at the butt are lost.
If some day only the hip bones poke out of the bottom, the butt starts to “ouch” as if you were just driving with the car nonstop from Frankfurt to Rimini.
Cushions for wheelchairs are a science in itself. Starting with a simple piece of rubber foam for cheap 120 €, via shockingly expensive comb cushions which look like a beehive for 600 €, up to inflatable special cushions which looked upon from above remind of a box of chocolate marshmallows.
I am using a comb cushion myself which actually is rather good. I consider the price of 125 € for an adequate seat cover which in my case starts ripping at the corners after 6 months as such a cheek that I have my covers privately mended to avoid charging my health insurance with such exorbitant prices. Everything has its limit, currently my cover has leather on the corners!
As just explained there are endless types of wheelchair cushions…
Why shower commode chairs are only slightly cushioned if at all, is inexplicable for me. After long research I have found an approximately 1,5 cm thick
The investment of 143 € is worth each cent.
I am using it daily for meanwhile 6 months now and I am absolutely content.
This shower commode chair is a standard model: Apart from the fact that the brake springs were broken after 2 years and the rear tyres were seized up, the shower water accumulates on two slots on the front tyres. This can only be topped by the fact that water is accumulating in the inside of the frame and can’t drain off, because there is no exit for it.
They should have provided the information that the shower chair is not water resistant!
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I am attributing the development of this technical aid exclusively to the excessive consumption of the finest high quality medication.
Otherwise this special construction is hardly explicable retrospectively.
With this
which can be fixed around the wheelchair I might get a minijob as pizza boy.
In this box not only the pizza stays hot, but alternatively the beer stays cold as well.
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A very well-known wheelchair hotel is the
on Tenerife.
Everything accessible, 2 pools with lifters, a store for medical supply next door, etc.
Everything great, apart from one little thing:
Tenerife is a volcano island, and the hotel is on top of a hill, fantastic…!
A Paralympics participant might be able to conquer this mountain by himself, but not me, never ever.
Many hotel guests bring their own electric wheelchairs from Germany which often become victims of the airlines, or they rent a scooter during their stay.
I once got the tip when I am down at the beach and would like to go up to the hotel again, to wait for the next electric wheelchair driver and tow myself on to him.
Well, I didn’t rent a scooter, but already for the second time a wheelchair tractive.
I already reported in October 2010 about my positive experience with this tractive type:
By coincidence I got the offer in Tenerife to buy a Trac in black, even fitting my wheelchair colour.
I could not resist and acquired my approximately 10 year old, new toy.
The re-import of the once in Germany produced Minitrac from Spain was a little bit difficult.
At the check-in at Tenerife airport, a slightly panic flight passenger broke off the steering linkage. The thing was fairly crashed.
In Frankfurt my own wheelchair was damaged as well so that I could not ride it on my own because the wheel was rubbing at the brake.
With all the luggage and a little overstrained lady from the airport handicapped service it was a perfect mess.
Without the help of my wife I probably would still be standing in Terminal 1.
After a first repair of the steering linkage of the Minitrac and a set of new batteries the first rides in Frankfurt could be made.
This thing rides only with 6 km/h, therefore doesn’t need a license plate and doesn’t have any constraints from the technical control association.
Some ideas come to my mind immediately what could be changed .
Wait and see…
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I am looking for a text for this picture since weeks!
When “Tracy”, an employee of a store for medical supply next door to a wheelchair hotel on Tenerife drove out of the lobby with this vehicle I was completely perplexed, and I had tears of laughter.
I introduce it, probably the first world wide
Tracy is a male nurse and makes everybody laugh with his sweet-and-crazy manner.
This guy is awesome, we need more of these!.
Look carefully, Winnie Pooh meets Mowgli
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It doesn’t happen very often that Army vehicles are parked next to the hotel swimming pool. Here is an
There is a suitable scooter for everyone, here
It is inexplicable to me why one uses a scooter on the one hand to avoid walking, and on the other hand drives around the Nordic Walking sticks.
The owner of the army scooter even drove through the dining hall with this thing once!
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On carnival Monday I was at a costume party with live music. Wisely the wheelchair table was at the end of the hall.
Great idea when almost all other people are standing in front of the stage.
You are easily overlooked in the crowd so that the beer or cider shower seems inevitable.
Some weeks ago I have bought a battery-operated
in a do-it-yourself store which can also be set to „blinking“.
So you are glowing in the dark 
With this thing you are seen very well in the crowd, found again by friends, and nobody dares to stand directly in front of you.
I have been around 15 meters away from the stage and have actually seen the singer every now and then. The beer shower was cancelled.
After the party, my friend has guided the taxi driver with the fluorescent bar as if he was on an airfield.
Click on tag „reflectors“ to read other illuminating tips.
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Technically speaking, this construction of rolling scaffold and garden chair can be considered as
(applicable for refurbishment of wall and ceiling)
But seriously:
Out of these garden chairs real wheelchairs are built for third world countries.
See homepage:
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Ugliest offroad wheelchair of all times, with twin tyres
Source: (BST)
Racing wheelchair type:
and the legendary electric wheelchair from Meyra:
Original price of the “Blue Tank” in 1997 reportedly around 25.000 DM
If you have any pictures of freaky wheelchairs, send them to me!
E-Mail like usual to: rollinator@eigude.de
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On December 17th (see older blogpost) I had my snow inauguration at the same place.
Now, 4 weeks later, my beloved snow has changed its state of aggregation from solid to liquid.
So you are thinking about for weeks how you can move through the snow in a wheelchair and have completely disregarded the swimming capabilities of these things.
Good that I have an
Hard to believe, but I am standing with my wheelchair virtually in the river.
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On December 17th (see older blogpost) I had my snow inauguration at the same place.
Now, 4 weeks later, my beloved snow has changed its state of aggregation from solid to liquid.
So you are thinking about for weeks how you can move through the snow in a wheelchair and have completely disregarded the swimming capabilities of these things.
Good that I have an
Hard to believe, but I am standing with my wheelchair virtually in the river.
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As already mentioned in several blogposts I am convinced that a set of
should be provided with the basic equipment of the first wheelchair.
Somehow a secret is made around the big advantage of these tyres.
For me, these tyres are no surplus luxury goods, or poser sport equipment, but a medical necessity so that a justification for the prescription of a medical device, the request for approval at the health insurance, is basically given.
Due to the wider-based tyres the security increases especially in cities with cobble stone because you don’t get stuck in the joints so often anymore.
Many shocks due to bad ground conditions are absorbed by the tyres, thus the spinal cord respectively the whole body is not strained so much anymore. Your back and bottom will be happy.
The wheelchair pusher is relieved very much on bad trails, mud, ice and snow…
The argument that you make no headway with these wheels is very much depending on the tyres, but not overall correct. The advantages predominate. I recommend a Schwalbe Land Cruiser as tyre.
The disadvantage of the wheels is the broadening of the whole wheelchair. Too bad if you don’t fit into the garage anymore.
I don’t know to which extent it is medically important for the health insurance that the wheeler can leave his home even in snow drift. You could catch a cold, but the groceries of the most important things like coffee, chocolate and condoms… should be ensured in winter as well.
With prices for a set of mountainbike wheelchair tyres from 560 € – 900 € from the wheelchair producers I understand everybody who refuses to buy them because actually these are “only” wheelchair tyres with a 10 – 20 € bicycle rim with bicycle tube and tyre.
As a matter of principle I refuse to pay such exorbitant prices. For the same money you can get already a really nice complete mountainbike. Thus I have let me built two wheelchair tyres for around 220 €.
Yesterday I have found a wheelchair replacement part company in the nearer abroad who charge per piece
This price is more than reasonable.
You shouldn’t forget the insurance aspect. With do-it-yourself constructions you can get into trouble if something is happening.
The company is currently closed until January.
I have ordered a quite special
from this company with which I hope to ride a little out in the snow by myself.
Of course I will write if the ordering should work.
Company name enquiries to me:
Contact: rollinator@eigude.de
From a snow height of 2 meters even my tyres slowly reach their limits.
Click on Tags “Wheelchair tyres” to read more blogposts.
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In the land of opportunity I have discovered it.
The chain-drive
Whether on sand, snow, dirt road or creek bed, with this hell of a chair you get through almost every terrain.
Unbelievable, but true, watch the VIDEOS.
The wheelchair has a 7 gear hub in the driving wheels.
It has winter accessories, with
and a
to clear the gateway from snow. The
is rather funny I think, but the
beats almost everything I have seen so far.
The price is fair, the basic model is available as of 4500$.
One time with this thing through the city of Frankfurt!!!
If the gun has a medical device number?
Source: Renegade USA
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I have got the impression that there is the general opinion that all wheelchair drivers are going to bed before dark.
Otherwise it is inexplicable for me that non of the wheelchairs I have seen has but one reflector on the front side.
Safety regulations of that kind are not known to me. One could almost think that we are allowed to be knocked over in traffic.
With luck one has at least a bicycle reflector put in the spokes.
The big discounters every now and then offer silver-coloured
These were not allowed for bicycles for a long time, but are perfect for wheelchairs.
For bicycles it is: front white, side orange, rear red.
My tip:
Paste your wheelchair especially on the front with adhesive reflectors, buy orange bike reflectors, spokes reflectors, or even better reflective
for cyclists can e.g. be sewed on the backpack.
With a head light you can see holes in the ground at night
Blinking rear light of a bike, figure something out, be creative, paste reflectors at the inside of the car door so that it is seen from far when it is open.
I don’t have the desire to be run over by a car because of serious safety lacks on a wheelchair which apparently nobody is interested in.
The “Stiftung Warentest” (German product test foundation) is not interested in testing wheelchairs either
(see older blogpost). (My latest status).
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