Tuesday, May 19, 2009

T minus 8 days

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With my elbow acting up over the past few days, I'm glad we've been working on some less strenuous tasks. This morning I sat on a mat and took my wheelchair apart and put it back together; it went quite a bit better than the last time, and it's a bit easier from the mat than trying to lean out of the car and do it. For the rest of the wheelchair mobility hour I practiced wheelies, and the new chair has a pretty nice balance point - I managed more than five minutes in a wheelie, and I could have gone longer but I thought everyone was getting a bit bored. The chair has an adjustment for the center of gravity (by moving the wheels forward or backward) and I have to change that as it takes a good yank on the wheels to reach the balance point. Changing that makes it easier to lift the front wheels over a small obstacle in mid-roll, and having the wheels in the correct position is also easier on the shoulders and gives you the best leverage for straight rolling or going up a ramp.

8 comments:

  1. That adjustment for the center of gravity is neat.

    As we say in french: ''merde'' for the surgery!

    JP

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  2. Glad to see you're demonstrating the proper "tongue-out" wheelie face! ;)

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  3. And it's STILL about geometry, eh? Can you adjust for ride height? Any damping adjustments? Need some help with the preload?

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  4. Now we all know the faces you were making on all the Cover shots!!! lol
    $$$

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  5. Nice to see haw well your doing.

    Alfredo

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  6. Hey, if you keep up those wheelies you might get drafted by Super Streetbike!

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  7. 'Only' Five minutes ?

    Did the oil light come on or something ?

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  8. You so set yourself up for those comments!
    Reminds me of someone I know.

    Mikolas

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