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Post by Pony on Feb 4, 2007 14:43:50 GMT -5
This thread is for chair pics and talk!! There's some wild chairs out there, and i don't know much about em, as i don't spend much time thinking about mine. I just use it to get somewhere, that's it!! I want this mutha to run people over in the mall, or running around the beach - on the sand!!!
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Post by Claire on Feb 5, 2007 8:12:40 GMT -5
I'm not into choppers but I think this is a work of art, regardless: from www.lashersport.com/ They also have a cool dragon chair, and a UBER lightweight chair made out of magnesium, even lighter than titanium. Very kewl.
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Post by Ouch on Feb 5, 2007 9:41:58 GMT -5
I've seen that, and the 'dragon chair' before...nice rides. I forget who makes it, but there is this cool chair that is designed to climb stairs and other obstacles that we normally would face...it's pretty interesting.
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Post by laurasweetou on Feb 5, 2007 10:42:05 GMT -5
I saw that chair being modeled by a quad at an ADA 15th anual (sp?) celebration 2 summers ago, VERY cool. This guy faced almost no obstacles in that chair.
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Post by Pony on Feb 5, 2007 16:42:58 GMT -5
....those are awesome chairs you guys are posting, soooo bloated in testosterone!!! I'm seeing myself planted in this little beauty with Laura serving cutesy umbrella drinks to me.
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Post by Triassic on Feb 5, 2007 17:00:35 GMT -5
I wonder if the treaded one actually works.
Jason, how do you get on that thing...or for that matter STAY on?
I'll bet that pvc chair is surprisingly expensive. I investigated getting one for the beach a few years ago thinking it'd be a couple hundred maybe, but they were like $1500!
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Post by E on Feb 5, 2007 17:10:52 GMT -5
I'll bet that pvc chair is surprisingly expensive. I investigated getting one for the beach a few years ago thinking it'd be a couple hundred maybe, but they were like $1500! Yep. Me, too.
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Post by E on Feb 6, 2007 8:46:17 GMT -5
Since this thread is about wild chairs and such, let's not forget this crazy (and unholy expensive) thing: www.ibotnow.com You all mention how expensive the PVC beach chair is. My 30 pound manual Quickie was literally more than $100/pound! I can't imagine paying for those power chairs like many of you guys have. I paid around $12,000 for my current chair. I imagine that iBot must be sitting somewhere around $30k. It's ridiculous.
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Post by Ouch on Feb 6, 2007 12:51:27 GMT -5
While useful, those beach chairs just send a shudder up my spine...they're just kinda' ugly, at least in my opinion.
I've rode on an ATV as well, it really is fairly easy to get on/stay on them (at least for me). Fun, as well. It is riddiculous how expensive chairs are, especially when the components could be taken from a hardware store, and they are assembled by Asian children who don't make what minimum wage workers here in a week do, in a year.
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Post by Pony on Feb 6, 2007 16:07:11 GMT -5
OMG....i can't believe $12k or $30k!! There's something wrong with this picture. The technology isn't like NASA shit, and the parts are mass produced - not customized!! This is why our healthcare system in US needs retooling. How do you Aussie dudes get chairs? Are they crazy-prices like this?
My chair is an old E&J that they don't make anymore. I got it free, and it was sitting in somebody's garage for years. I made it fit me perfect, and while i'd like to get some newer/lighter front wheels, like those Froglegs, i looked at prices, and they're expensive. So, maybe one day!!!
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Post by E on Feb 6, 2007 18:36:51 GMT -5
The iBot is actually $23,900. I'm going down to test-drive one in Miami on March 22nd.
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Post by Ouch on Feb 7, 2007 9:37:32 GMT -5
Yeah, it is amazing the prices...I'm actually working with people to possibly develop a sporting chair...and the R&D is honestly not that expensive...hell, we should just make a new market where local people build/maintain chairs instead of the few co's out there. Prices would come down drastically.
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Post by Triassic on Feb 7, 2007 10:48:11 GMT -5
Don't you suppose that the fact that the cost of most w/c's is billed to insurance or medicare has something to do with it?
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Post by andyc251 on Feb 7, 2007 14:25:48 GMT -5
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Post by E on Feb 7, 2007 14:25:58 GMT -5
Unfortunately, neither insurance nor Medicare pays for any portion of my chairs. It puts me in this neat category where I "make too much" for assistance, but certainly cannot easily afford the chair I need. I do it, anyways. I buy it, but it's not pretty.
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