Postby Burgerman » Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:39 pm
At a guess, all wrinkly, and not stuck well. And you will wish it was painted gloss black!
Burgerman wrote:Sadly, after doing a lot of this stuff, and on bikes, for 40 years I knew that this would be the result. But nobody likes a "told you so" so I wont mention it! Even though I alreadty did when you said you were going to do this!Postby Burgerman » Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:39 pm
At a guess, all wrinkly, and not stuck well. And you will wish it was painted gloss black!
10 days ago... Dont worry. Bung a spray shop 30 quid and they will do it in a nice slightly metalic black with 2 pack laquer.
Also, those wheel spacers are available in 8, or 12mm should you need them.
Carbon fibre footplate? Please tell me more .Burgerman wrote:And steel plate and carbon replacement on front footplate saves another .5kg.
foghornleghorn wrote:
I weighed myself and my wheelchair combined while visiting a care home one day and seeing they had scales, came to 192kg. Starting at almost that while empty is getting a bit crazy! Most portable ramps to load into a vehicle are 300kg limit, and the ones to get you on a train or a bus are the same.
ICEUK wrote:Bm, why not the storm 4, i know there was a reason but i cant remember.
Is the SalsaR discontinued?
Burgerman wrote:Everyone will tell you that rear drive chairs are worse indoors. And thats true of every powerchair where the seat must be mounted too far forwards. So that the normal swing away footrests are able to clear the casters. They must be stuck ahead of the chair and in front of the caster wheels.
The result is a nose heavy chair that steers very badly and is too long indoors with your legs stuck out ahead. But a centre footplate cures the problem. If its small enough, it fits partly between the caster wheels. Allowing the seat and footplate(s) to sit around 3 or 4 inches further back, in a more reaward position. Which is why all my rear drive chairs use a centre footplate.
Search the web for rear drive chairs with centre footplate, its not common or easy to find! But you can push the manufacturers to fit the centre mount footplates that they normally fit to their centre wheel drive or front drive chairs. But they dont like it! Thats why you can't see a pic of a Jive/Salsa with a centre footplate and the same is true most of the other chairs out there. They think rear drive = swing away foot riggings.
However there can also be issues if you move the seat/footplate back to a more rearward position. Such as below. Note the shiny bolt sitting just behind the footplate in the exact place you do not want it! It holds the actuator on... And hits the tyre.
Burgerman wrote:Because mid wheel drive is frankly rubbish in the actual real world outdoors.
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