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Low-budget wheelchair mountainbike winter tyres
As already mentioned in several blogposts I am convinced that a set of
mountainbike wheelchair tyres
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
wheelchair mountainbike tyre 117€
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
wheelchair hand rim for quadriplegics
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.
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