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Old 04-12-2008, 02:55 PM   #1
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April 12, 2008: Pedal Powered Wheelchair

At first I thought it was a bad joke.
Wouldn't someone be in a wheelchair because they couldn't use their legs?
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a clamp-on cycle for wheelchair users enabling opportunities for exercise or rehabilitation to short or long term wheelchair users.
I never thought of that. I guess I'd fallen into the stereotype trap, of just seeing all people in wheelchairs having the same (dis)ability.
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Old 04-12-2008, 03:12 PM   #2
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does it come with one of those big long flexible flag staffs and baseball card for the spokes?
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Old 04-12-2008, 06:11 PM   #3
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Just don't push him down a hill unattended. It could become ugly quick.
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Old 04-12-2008, 11:14 PM   #4
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No problem, he's got brakes.
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Old 04-13-2008, 02:59 PM   #5
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I just got this crazy image in my head of a couple of kids at the family reunion pushing Aunt Ethel, 100 yrs old, really really fast in this wheelchair/pedal rehab thing, and her skinny 100 yr old legs pumping up and down like crazy.
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Old 04-15-2008, 05:43 PM   #6
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Just don't push him down a hill unattended. It could become ugly quick.
So you're saying the poor guy's condition would be going downhill fast?!
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Old 04-15-2008, 09:35 PM   #7
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Hell's Grampas tricycle gang
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Old 04-16-2008, 03:32 PM   #8
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First funny Bruce. Second this is the most retarded thing I have seen in awhile.
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Old 04-19-2008, 04:36 AM   #9
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Old 04-19-2008, 12:56 PM   #10
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A few bike designs for wheelchair riders who can't work the pedals themselves

Kinda a sidecar for spudcon's Heck's Grandpas:



Next, riding in the front!



I don't see how these ones are steered without handlebars--I guess just by pushing on that bar on the back of the chair (like steering a lawn mower):



Doesn't count as a wheelchair bicycle, but this bicycle taxi does seem to confirm the steering speculation re the previous pics:



Replace the bicycle taxi's passenger seat with one of these, though, and you do get a wheelchair bicycle, after all (note "cowcatcher" in front to latch into taxi's DOT-mandated safety bar):

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Old 04-19-2008, 05:18 PM   #11
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Isn't that Bill O' Reilly hauling Madelyn Albright?
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Old 04-19-2008, 07:13 PM   #12
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Hey. well researched Imigo.
I love the idea that sporty types can include disabled loved ones.
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Old 04-19-2008, 08:22 PM   #13
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She's watching the GPS, so they don't get lost.
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