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From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Cliff Stevens)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: wheelchair survey, request for info
Summary: Dunno?
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Date: 30 Nov 90 17:50:59 GMT
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Index Number: 12073

In article <15957@bunker.UUCP>, Bill.Higgins@p17.f9.n249.z1.fidonet.org
(Bill Higgins) writes:
> Index Number: 12045
>     It sounds as if you got a dud. I have a Quickie II and all I've ever had
>     to do is change the tires (why don't they use vulcanized rubber??) and
>     grease it once in a while (and clean it). I do my own service work as
>     it's cheaper and i know it's the way I want it done. Right now I'm
>     looking for 24" mountian or BMX type tires for the Canadian winter. Trust
>     me, winter's here can be brutal.

I don't know, how much can you use your legs?  I basically was in the chair
only until I learned to walk again, so I was *CONTINUISLLY* in and out of it.
And that kind of repeated stress is very hard on it.  In fact, in the winter
I couldn't get traction to push myself w my R foot, so I'd get out of the chair
and push it in front of me!  But from your post I get the impression that you 
are probably spinal cord (People who would need knobbies are those
who push w both hands, not roll w one and push w one foot.), but I never 
had to change a tire, but I was only in ethe Quickie for 0.75 year (But in
a chair for 2.5 years.)
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