Posted on 06/13/2020 3:48:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right
I have a slight handicap (a bad - really bad - hip). For quite some time now I’ve been looking for a hand-powered scooter. I don’t want a hand-powered bike or trike. They are too difficult for me to transport.
I’ve done many Google searches for “hand-powered scooter”. All I get back are electric-powered scooters results. I don’t want that. If anyone knows about a good hand-powered scooter, I’d be very grateful to hear about it.
How would a scooter like that work? I’m having trouble picturing what you want. How do you want your hands to power it—what kind of input?
I’ve seen guys on skateboards using a long pole to push them along, like a gondola.
All power scooters are hand controlled, if that is what you mean to say.
> How would a scooter like that work? <
Thank you for your interest. I’ve seen prototype hand-powered scooters that use a rowing motion to power the device. But I’ve seen nothing that’s commercially available. Hopefully, someone else has.
When you say, “scooter,” do you mean a stand-up scooter, or a sit-down thing like a trike?
BTW, that one costs $649.99.
That is called land paddling and would still involve a certain fitness level for one’s legs, hips, etc. plus falls are expected. For those able, it does free the requirement of having to push off with leg power and a Kahuna Big Stick or other land paddle can handle the uphill grades of those trails made from former railroad beds. If one does a few miles it gets to be a real workout and it is much more challenging to one’s balance than bicycling.
> All power scooters are hand controlled <
I need something that is hand-powered, as my legs wouldn’t help much. My legs are just along for the ride, so to speak.
Have you considered hip-replacement surgery?
Hip-replacement surgery is a lot easier to recover from than knee-replacement surgery, and the results are excellent.
The accelerator is in the handle bars.
“All I get back are electric-powered scooters results. I don’t want that”
Thank you for that link. But unfortunately no kick scooter would work for me. The mind is willing, but the hip is not.
And I’m not looking for an electric scooter, as it takes away the exercise benefit. Thanks anyway!
This is probably the closest to what you want:
http://www.streetstrider.com/streetstriders/summit-8r-p-161.html
> Have you considered hip-replacement surgery? <
Oh, yes. But a specialist has told me that such a surgery would be too risky, as it might lead to paralysis. On the bright side, I guess I’ll be exempt from the draft when the next Civil War comes.
I think it looks like a board that has a platform about knee high so that you can put a knee on it and push with the other foot.
A wheel chair is about as close as you are going to get unless you build one yourself, or hire a bike builder to do it. They TIG weld custom frames all the time. Where your problem will be is steering while propelling it.
> When you say, “scooter,” do you mean a stand-up scooter, or a sit-down thing like a trike? <
Any hand-powered scooter would do, stand-up or sit-down. At this stage, I’m not picky! But it can’t be as large as a normal hand-powered trike. I just can’t transport those things. They’re too big.
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