Bill Lasher, the brains and guiding force behind Lasher Sport, is a wheelchair user himself and he set out to design an all-terrain chair from the standpoint of what he really wanted in an off-road wheelchair. The result is a true beast, with lightweight magnesium frame (20% lighter than aluminum but just as strong), huge front castors, rear suspension and hydraulic disc brakes.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
This year saw the racing events expanded, with the addition of a true downhill event, featuring the Adaptive Sports' Center's 4-wheel "gravity machines" which are wheel chairs dedicated to downhill racing. Also new this year, was the opportunity for all disability groups to race off-road, which is an expansion of the main event: The hill climb and cross country handcycle races at CBMR, which was contested on the amazing One-Off Handcycle, designed for serious off-road work by Mike Augspurger, who is also a co-organizer of the event and sponsor.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
On Saturday 16th August 2008, Darol Kubacz achieved his dream of becoming the first paraplegic to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro purely under his own power. Reaching 18,400ft, Darol completed the grueling climb in 10 days and sat higher than any other paraplegic has climbed without help.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
When Mike Spindle set out to design a new type of wheelchair he didn't play by the same old boring design rules, he made his own and the result was the excellent Trekinetic K2 all-terrain wheelchair. We've talked about the trekinetic before, and it made the #5 spot in our list of the best manual off-road wheelchairs, if you didn't already know, it looks pretty sweet too:
Monday, August 11, 2008
Darol Kubacz is back on Kilimanjaro with his Freedom For Life team having launched another attempt to become the first paraplegic to make it to the summit of Africa's highest mountain. 2 years ago, during his first summit bid, Darol was forced to turn back with 'just' 3,000ft to go when he developed pulmanory edema (altitude sickness) and came close to death, he's spent these last two years training and preparing for another attempt and started out from the base on 7th August.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Made almost completely from spare bike parts, and even some old pieces of wood, the wheelchair is designed to try and conquer the two main hurdles for mobility in Africa and other developing nations; rough terrain and cost.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The home page of Lasher Sport, makers of some of the sexiest wheelchairs in the world, has been updated with some teasing information on a new All-Terrain wheelchair from the Alaskan based firm.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tour operators in Africa though are among the first in the world to realize that disabled travelers are a relatively untouched pool of customers and revenue, and that catering to this market can be big business in an otherwise saturated tourism market. Far from simply modifying their original set-up to be accessible, many safari operators have re-built from the ground up to cater specifically to disabled travelers.
Monday, June 30, 2008
We need to invade Germany again, seriously. It's obvious that they are planning to overtake the world via advanced engineering and a few battalions of wheelchair warriors carried across the battlefield by all-terrain, electric hybrid wheelchairs armed with lasers.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Getting in the mud, snow or rough terrain is normally where the best fun is to be had, unfortunately most wheelchairs just cant cope with much more than a couple of mole hills. That sucks because we like moles and dont think they should be blamed for making huge parts of the world inaccessible to [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
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