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.
Schulte is renowned for the basketball chairs he designs, bespoke and measured perfectly to the player and their abilities, in Beijing he'll even be competing against players from other countries who'll be in chairs he had made for them.
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:
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.
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.
Using a standard electric drill as a motor and means of propulsion they built a transfer unit that easily bolts onto any manual wheelchair and lets you get your freak on without the added noise of a petrol engine. With speeds of between 3 and 12 mph from using that drill you got 3 years ago but have never taken out of the box.
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.
You may of noticed the little Flickr RSS feed in the sidebar, well this displays random photo's from our group on Flickr and we want you to join us in showing how you push the limits in a wheelchair.
It's not even a concept so dont get too excited, but even though it's nothing more than a crazy photoshop dream, it's still gone straight to the top of our wheelchair wish list.
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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