by Tdarcos » Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:49 pm
Can we move the hatescreeds and shitposting to someplace else? Flack, Aardvark, Bob Ross and Flying Carp all went off topic, then the entire subject went off into never-never land .
Now, to try to go back on topic, I said I thought motorcycle wheelies were cool looking but I thought they were as dangerous as fuck. Then I mentioned that power wheelchairs can't do them. Then someone presented a tipped picture of a power wheelchair, implying it was doing a wheelie.
Note it was not a video of someone who while seated in a chair was able to make it tip or move fast enough to do a wheelie. Give a skilled operator 45 minutes with a picture and they can photoshop it to look like anything.
There are only two possibilities on how this was done as the picture was staged. How? Either (1) the wheelchair was positioned in a tipped position and secured, then someone sat in it, or (2) someone sat in the chair, then someone used a device to raise it.
Use some common sense here. A power wheelchair is slightly over 1/2 the weight of even a 'light' motorcycle and others are lots more**. Can someone tip a motorcycle simply by sitting on one in a stopped state or running at less than 6 miles per hour? I don't think so; I think you need a lot more energy to overcome the inertia. Maybe you can stand on the rear seat or the back of a stopped motorcycle and do it, but that is not something a handicapped person can do, even in a power chair.
The maximum possible speed on an unmodified power wheelchair is perhaps 6 mph. These devices are medical devices, they are subject to much more stringent rules because they're normally too expensive for most individuals to buy, and Medicare and/or private insurance is paying for all or virtually all of the cost, thus they are not going to be able to produce the kinds of speeds necessary to do that sort of thing. No one wants to re-injure someone already needing a medical assist device.
Now may we please get back to the subject of wheelies by motorcycles and choppers?
** Minimum estimated weight for a small motorcycle is about 198 kg (436 lbs), while my power chair is about 250 punds empty. As of 2014, a Harley Superlow ships from the factory at 540 pounds.
Can we move the hatescreeds and shitposting to someplace else? Flack, Aardvark, Bob Ross and Flying Carp all went off topic, then the entire subject went off into never-never land .
Now, to try to go back on topic, I said I thought motorcycle wheelies were cool looking but I thought they were as dangerous as fuck. Then I mentioned that power wheelchairs can't do them. Then someone presented a tipped picture of a power wheelchair, implying it was doing a wheelie.
Note it was not a video of someone who while seated in a chair was able to make it tip or move fast enough to do a wheelie. Give a skilled operator 45 minutes with a picture and they can photoshop it to look like anything.
There are only two possibilities on how this was done as the picture was staged. How? Either (1) the wheelchair was positioned in a tipped position and secured, then someone sat in it, or (2) someone sat in the chair, then someone used a device to raise it.
Use some common sense here. A power wheelchair is slightly over 1/2 the weight of even a 'light' motorcycle and others are lots more**. Can someone tip a motorcycle simply by sitting on one in a stopped state or running at less than 6 miles per hour? I don't think so; I think you need a lot more energy to overcome the inertia. Maybe you can stand on the rear seat or the back of a stopped motorcycle and do it, but that is not something a handicapped person can do, even in a power chair.
The maximum possible speed on an unmodified power wheelchair is perhaps 6 mph. These devices are medical devices, they are subject to much more stringent rules because they're normally too expensive for most individuals to buy, and Medicare and/or private insurance is paying for all or virtually all of the cost, thus they are not going to be able to produce the kinds of speeds necessary to do that sort of thing. No one wants to re-injure someone already needing a medical assist device.
Now may we please get back to the subject of wheelies by motorcycles and choppers?
** Minimum estimated weight for a small motorcycle is about 198 kg (436 lbs), while my power chair is about 250 punds empty. As of 2014, a Harley Superlow ships from the factory at 540 pounds.