Posts Tagged ‘Rolli’
星期六, 十一月 6th, 2010
In an older blogpost I have bashed a little on this wheelchair, I would like to apologize for that.
The special wheelchair with cross tyres was standing in India.
It is one of worldwide
530.000 Low-Budget Wheelchairs
(April 2012 already 639.000)
in 77 countries which have been especially developed by the organization
and donated to people in need.
The target of the project is to provide 20 million wheelchairs worldwide for free.
Each wheelchair costs only 59,20 USD including delivery.
Have you ever considered the donation of a wheelchair?
Just “go“ to the website of FWM and have a look.
Link: Free Wheelchair Mission
Unbelievable but true, a tool kit is inside the footrest.
Source: Free Wheelchair Mission
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Links, Rolli, Rolliräder
Posted in Allgemein, Einfach toll!, Hilfsmittel, Links | No Comments »
星期三, 十一月 3rd, 2010
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.
This is a striking lack of safety!!!
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
spokes reflectors.
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
tyres.
Reflectors for arms and legs
for cyclists can e.g. be sewed on the backpack.
With a head light you can see holes in the ground at night
(see older blogpost).
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).
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Reflektoren, Rolli, Rolliräder, Rollirucksack, Tipps und Tricks
Posted in Eigude- Pranger, Pimp My Rolli, Tipps und Tricks, Winter | 1 Comment »
星期二, 十一月 2nd, 2010
Almost all wheelchair users are using bicycle gloves which they buy every now and then at the discounter.
My needs for these quality products were plentiful, the more expensive ones weren’t any better for wheelchair driving either.
I got the tip to switch to sailing gloves because they are more robust and additionally reinforced at the forefinger to let the ropes run through for sailing without burning the fingers.
Furthermore the glove fixes very well around the wrist which is very important for me as quadriplegic for braking to not loose the gloves. The velcro tapes are fixing well, and the leather is out of one piece. The gloves are available in Antara leather or Neoprene.
Sailing Gloves
The price starts at 10,00 €.
Source of supply can be enquired.
Contact: rollinator@eigude.de
Now I am just missing a sailing boat.
Translator BL
Tags:Greifen, Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Segelhanschuhe, Tetra Tipps, Tipps und Tricks
Posted in Allgemein, Everyday life aids, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli, Tipps und Tricks | No Comments »
星期二, 十一月 2nd, 2010
I already mentioned the accessibility of Los Cristianos. They have equipped a special area for us wheelchair and scooter users on the beach over there.
You can drive in your wheelchair on wooden planks almost into the water.
If you really would like to go into the sea there are two wheelchair lifeguards who lift you with a hoist into a
Beach Wheelchair
and move you across the sand into the sea.
The guys have pushed me across the beach at a run. I was shocked that Spaniards can move that fast, respect.
Swimming in the sea for the first time after 3,5 years, what a feeling!
I was hardly in the water, and the big fish die-off began.
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Kanaren / Mittelmeer, Rolli, Schwimmen, Teneriffa, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Urlaub | 3 Comments »
星期六, 十月 30th, 2010
A real rarity:
Bought by a German in the USA and photo taken by me in Spain, an
Israeli Foldable Scooter.
This scooter is completely foldable. With its two batteries it has coverage of around 15 kilometers. Basic but functional.
The grey colour reminds somehow of the military!
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Scooter
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli | No Comments »
星期五, 十月 29th, 2010
Los Cristianos in the south of Tenerife is exceedingly accessible, but quite hilly and only to cope for fit wheelchair users or with extreme pusher.
Wheelchairs, rollators, crutches and rented scooters or electric wheelchairs belong to the townscape.
An alternative to electric wheelchair or scooter is an approximately 60 kg heavy, little tractive.
Minitrac or Swisstrac
I call this thing a mobile cider crate.
With some practice the docking is quite easy. The tractive power is remarkable. I didn’t have any difficulties with gradients, provided that the floor plates were not too slippery.
Curbs are no hurdles at all. The docking bar in the mid of the wheelchair can be de-installed easily, even with a foldable wheelchair.
The some year old Minitrac has passed my 10 day test quite well. Although it was mounted to my wheelchair in a little unconventional-creative-spanish way, it was technically absolutely alright.
The Minitrac a German and the Swisstrac a Swiss product are quite similar. I only heard good things about the Swisstrac, but haven’t tested it yet. I have seen the new Swisstrac on a fair, the new docking station is easy to handle for quadriplegics.
I like these small things, and they fit into any trunk, if a well-trained pedestrian is found to lift it.
The colour was disgusting: pinkish red with glitter effect! Ugh…
There is one comment worth to be translated from the chief engineer of Swisstrac
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Kanaren / Mittelmeer, Minitrac, Rolli, Teneriffa, Tetra Tipps, Tipps und Tricks, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Hilfsmittel für Tetras, Urlaub | 1 Comment »
星期二, 十月 26th, 2010
This 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.
Tags:Kanaren / Mittelmeer, Minitrac, Rolli, Schild, Teneriffa, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Comedy, Urlaub | No Comments »
星期二, 十月 26th, 2010
When I was at the last rehab fair I have tested an assumed new wheelchair drive. It is called
NuDrive
and is basically not a bad idea.
For para- or quadriplegics like me without abdominal muscles and a disposition to fall forward out of the wheelchair it might not be suitable.
By pulling on two handles the driving wheels are turned independently from each other, and by pushing the brakes are applied. Unfortunately these things only have one gear so that you only get faster if you are “paddling” faster.
Even if I wouldn’t purchase this drive, it makes driving considerably easier if you don’t have much power. I like it that it has been thought about us quadriplegics as well with wristbands.
Somehow I think to have seen something similar on age-old wheelchairs…
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Rolliräder, Tetra Tipps
Posted in Hilfsmittel, Hilfsmittel für Tetras, Pimp My Rolli | 2 Comments »
星期二, 九月 14th, 2010
Some 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)
Translator BL
Tags:Bier, Frankfurt, Handbike, Rolli, Rolliräder, Sport
Posted in Allgemein, Einfach toll!, Pimp My Rolli, Sport | No Comments »
星期日, 八月 29th, 2010
As 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
Translator BL
Tags:Regen, Rolli, Rolliräder, Tipps und Tricks
Posted in Allgemein, Everyday life aids, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli, Tipps und Tricks | 1 Comment »
星期日, 八月 22nd, 2010
As already mentioned a couple of times (see older blog posts wheelchair tyres) I had
Mountainbike wheelchair tyres
built.
With my wife I wanted to make a tour around a lake in Austria:
Vilsalpsee
In combination with my shock absorbers and with assistance it is definitely possible to ride or push my wheelchair on hiking paths.
Gravel paths and pot-holes can be handled without great difficulties.
But suddenly I stood in front of a giant
Mud Hole
2 meters wide, 10 cm deep, 5 meters long, it was the path!!!
There even my
Outdoor Wheelchair
reached its limits.
After a couple of walkers who did not declare me completely insane what I am doing on their hiking paths with my wheelchair ensured me that the path would be accessible without any problems after passing the mud hole, and that they would help me, we took a chance.
New gloves, never mind!
No silly pictures were taken when I got stuck in the mud.
With pushing and pulling I got out of the mud and back on track.
At least my hand rims had to be cleaned. Then it is quite helpful when you receive from another walker a big amount of baby wipes which – as she mentioned funny enough – had an apple-peach scent.
Well, the wheelchair wasn’t clean, but smelled nicely.
The supposed accessible path presented the next challenge quickly.
Although the bridge is only 1,5 meters high the ramp is just 4 meters long. Only marginally I would like to mention that I had to go down again on the other side.
(The perspective is misleading.)
I slowly started feeling like Hobbit Frodo from the Shire.
After half of the round course the path around the sea turned into a country lane first and then into a paved highway.
It took the mouse hours with her white tissue until my wheelchair was clean again.
Translator BL
Tags:Maus, Oberstdorf, Rolli, Rolliräder, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Pimp My Rolli, Urlaub | No Comments »
星期三, 八月 18th, 2010
Each supposed holiday with like-minded people turns inevitably into a workshop of a
Support Group of medical device marred
wheelchair drivers and prosthesis wearers.
It is unbelievable what is screwed together by some experts (luminaries) in the medical supply stores.
Even I don’t have these special
Spinergy driving wheels
in my tuning equipment.
Such a specialist actually has fiddled a set of tyres type
Nan** Speed 80 Plus
on these precious wheels, what a sacrilege!
Words were dropped, it would be like a Ferrari
driving with Trabbi tyres.
** NAN, like grandmother 
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Rolliräder, Medical Supply Store
Posted in Allgemein, Eigude- Pranger, Hilfsmittel | No Comments »
星期五, 七月 23rd, 2010
Frontpage 
At some time somebody told me something about his
car wheelchair
I have to admit that I haven’t understood at that time why you need a special wheelchair for driving a car.
Actually it is very simple, it is all about the
Wheelchair Loading System (see older blogpost)
In the meantime, I have such a system. The wheelchair is folded, docked to the loading system, tilted by 90° upwards and then pulled behind the driver’s door.
In order to make this possible, the wheelchair should not be too long, because otherwise
it would not fit through the car door any more.
I was lucky, my wheelchair is quite short with its roundabout 85 cm length. It just fits into my
dove-shit-grey-metallic-coloured car from Rüsselsheim.
(translator’s note: In Rüsselsheim is the German head office of Opel)
At
Rehabilitation fairs
the loading of wheelchairs looks always so simple at the exhibitors and operates error-free.
The demonstration car is never standing at a hillside, a curb, a busy street or on cobble stone.
Have a closer look at this picture:
The footrests
were removed so that the wheelchair would fit into the car.
Have fun when you are levitating out of the car and remove and attach the footrests all the time. Where to put these things?
I doubt that even the employer’s liability insurance sponsors in addition to in- and outdoor, sport, standing and beach wheelchairs, a car wheelchair as well.
Translator BL
Tags:Car and Hand Throttle, Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Wheelchair Loading System
Posted in Allgemein, Car and Hand Throttle | No Comments »
星期五, 七月 16th, 2010
Before my accident 2001 my hobby was the restoration of old mopeds of the former GDR (German Democratic Republic).
Amongst other things I still own a hand throttle operated
Handicap vehicle type:
Simson/Brandis Duo 4/1, year of construction 1982.
I have rebuilt the DUO a “bit” to West German standard. The vehicle has a 50 cc engine and makes officially 50 km/h.
As you can see there are no pedals. Gears are changed with the left arm without clutch, with the right arm the handle bar is pushed for gas, and when brake is needed the whole handle bar is pushed forward.
With the Duo I drove after almost 4 years of restoration (1024 working hours) with my wife to the town hall in Frankfurt to get married.
I am still hoping that my strength and upper body stability will increase some time in that way that I can take a ride again.
If somebody needs technical support with Simson mopeds or spare parts, I still have around 600 kg.
Officially the DUO is a vehicle for handicapped .
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Simson DUO
Posted in Allgemein, Diverses, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli | No Comments »
星期五, 七月 9th, 2010
When you like me don’t belong to the desirable society of occupational accidents* it should be well-considered which special equipment is chosen in addition to the health insurance wheelchair and has to be paid by oneself of course.
The hospital wheelchair which I was using then was a new special edition and was very good to drive.
I applied for this model in a slightly slimmed-down version and got it approved.
The aluminum steering wheels were a must, aren’t they cool?
The steering wheels have hard rubber tyres and are slim.
The tyres were great in the hospital. Really smooth, such a corridor.
For someone like me who wasn’t able to move anyway and can’t ride on the rear tyres these wheels were
like hell out in the wild.
At the smallest joint, hole or best cobble stone the wheelchair abruptly stopped. I didn’t like that at all that I was sometimes faster than my wheelchair. Additionally the bearings have conked out after 6 months even though I rarely left my flat.
I changed from hard and slim 4 inch (10,16 cm) wheels to soft and broader
5 inch (12,70 cm) steering wheels.
Now even I can go to the old town to drink a coke.
Unfortunately I have to see something like this consistently!
Get a prescription for repair from your physician, and the medical supply store “should” take care about the exchange.
You don’t drive your car with bald tyres either.
* Expenses covered by employer’s accident insurance
The employer’s accident insurance pays almost everything, e.g. a carport so that you can reach the house dry-shoed from the partially sponsored car over the new ramp to levitate like a little angel through your staircase with a wheelchair suspension track.
Great society, I’ll join in!
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Rolliräder, Tipps und Tricks
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli | No Comments »
