Hi, Doug!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  In a power chair, the drive wheels may be filled with air
AH>  (giving the user a softer ride) or with foam (meaning you
AH>  needn't worry about flat tires if you run over a nail or
AH>  some bits of broken glass, as our daughter has)....  :-)

DC>  Now thats an idea :)
DC>  I have a lawn tractor that I bought a bottle of that green
DC>  gook for the tires, it seems to work.


          Hmm.  There's another idea....  :-)



DC>  I Think in order to find a (dealership) I would need to
DC>  get out of these bushes and goto Albany, NY or Concord NH.


          The above is certainly a major consideration.  A lot of the
features you seem to want are fairly standard on power chairs... but with
no dealers or repair shops in the vicinity you might be better off adapting
what you already have.  Last summer, on a visit to a small town in Alaska,
we met a young woman with a power chair who lives there all year 'round. 
She informed us the chair came from Seattle (& presumably has to be
fixed in Seattle too).  While I know many people in BC who send such items
to Vancouver to get them fixed, that may be a record!  Anyway, I reckon
you'd still need your scooter as a backup.  :-)



DC>  I cant even getem to work on mine here, They site Liability
DC>  issues :(


          Maybe it's best if they don't meddle with what they don't
understand where your safety is concerned... but it must be frustrating for
you at times.



DC>  Well Springfield here is a river valley city. Every where I
DC>  may go means buggying down off this hill and getting back up
DC>  after.

DC>  The "Flyer" i have has done around 7 miles (4.5 hours) but I
DC>  have not run it till dead eather.


          Our daughter has run her chair until it slowed to a crawl on
outings with other energetic young folks, but I don't know what distances
they covered because I wasn't there.  I do know a woman (probably in her
late 50's or early 60's) who uses a power chair & won't take a bus or a
taxi.  From what she says
I think eight or ten miles would be well within the limits in her case.  Since
it's unlikely she's reading ABLED, I can add that she's no flyweight....  :-))




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