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My old Quickie. Sold at a silly price. No anti tips. The year of living dangerously 
My old Quickie. Sold at a silly price. No anti tips. The year of living dangerously 
Liteway 3. Excellent for getting about seriously scary on Belgian train ramps with an 8 foot  drop on to the platform  Great everywhere else and comes apart to go into the boot of a car. . Fits into the rear of a Ford Kuga. (with the seat off), fold the tiller down and it goes in in one piece. 
Liteway 3. Excellent for getting about seriously scary on Belgian train ramps with an 8 foot  drop on to the platform  Great everywhere else and comes apart to go into the boot of a car. . Fits into the rear of a Ford Kuga. (with the seat off), fold the tiller down and it goes in in one piece. 
flexyfoot. Have a look at @flexyfoot.com   
flexyfoot. Have a look at @flexyfoot.com   
TiLite folder with Alber E35 setup (I'll do something on that later)  Brillant for getting round hotels, hospitals, venues, malls, airports. Turns on a sixpence and can 180 in a lift.  Not great in a rough urban environment, cobblestones, holes kerbs  etc 
TiLite folder with Alber E35 setup (I’ll do something on that later)  Brillant for getting round hotels, hospitals, venues, malls, airports. Turns on a sixpence and can 180 in a lift.  Not great in a rough urban environment, cobblestones, holes kerbs  etc 
I used to love travelling. Even the journey, getting there was part of the fun. Delayed, haul out a book, look around and attempt to conserve your stock of jellybeans.  Nowadays its easier than ever. Thanks to modern technology I travel with one less rucksack, books and music go into a mini iPad in my pocket. (all you have to remember is pack the cables and chargers)  As my condition deteriorated I grew to hate it, too much trouble, not enough time and even  a place as pretty as Barcelona could lift my spirits.  It wasn't great, not the cities fault. I was just wearing out. Now I go travelling. A walking stick for dire emergency. Either a Self propelled wheelchair, a scooter or a power chair.    Plan A is take the scooter with you on the plane and rent a manual chair, (thats the one you push yourself . Herein known as an SPW.) when you get there. Its a lot less expensive. (Don’t forget the charger). It means you tootle about on the wheelchair while the scooter’s charging. Plan B. SPW on the plane and scooter or power chair when you get there, sourcing it might be difficult, And it will be expensive, but, its personal preference.  Why the SPW, well it'll fit in a taxi or a bus. A power chair won’t. My scooters were pretty good, comfortable for eurostreets  (cobbles) and folded to fit.  I’ve a wheelchair for home and one for travel. The one for home is a nice one, but wheels, sides, and footplates  come off, the very things you don't want to get lost in the hold of a plane.  The travel one, folds, thats it. Nothing comes off. Just as we were congratulating ourselves on having a travel proof piece of kit. There was something badly wrong. One of the brake locks was jammed against the tyre. Alloy is great, but it’s  bendable by an idiot. It was unbent by judicious use of a hammer.   Thats mine there, a Quickie Revolution. 26inch, little tippy now sporting black tyres.  Thats the orange one at the top. Since sold after a massive steam clean for a silly amount of money. The original  scooter is a Liteway 3, which comes apart, tubular framed. tight turning circle and it all comes apart. So it will fit in a taxi boot. Especially if its a Skoda Superb which seems to be hugely popular these days. IMG_0206.jpgIMG_0206.jpg My previous was a Shoprider Napoli which was great for kerbs and cobbles. I looked like a big kids trike and considering where it went. It was.  Tiller folds, seat comes off, battery comes out. So it comes down to three major components. Do not tell the airplane people, they will leave a bit on the plane. And take the key, better still take two (keys) Thats a Liteway 3. It does all that and goes back together again  I personally  tend to dump the armrests. They get battered on doors and catch on everything. And its just something else to lose.  A nice sized floorpan  so you can shift about a bit.  It all goes into the boot of a decent sized car. So it should fit into the rear of a taxi at a push.  Standard walking stick, I usually gaffer tape a folder to my scooter after getting a wooden one caught between a train and platform in Berlin. I thought I’d broken the train. The under seat basket is handy. The front one something off an embarrassment. On the WTF is that. May I recommend the Flexyfoot , check it out at flexyfoot.com .  The clever bit is the ferrule  (thats the bit which contacts the ground, unless you have it upside down) The design means that the maximum amount of tread is on the ground at any one time.  Great for wet and rough terrain.  And it works. Available for various stick circumferences. Ive an original flexyfoot and  the ferrule on an Ossenberg for weddings and formal occasions.  Crutches, I  don't use them, death traps and those three wheeled walker things, not at all. Wheelchair gloves, use the full finger gloves, you really don't want to look like a failed Egyptian weightlifter.  Something which has proved really useful on my travels has been lights on my scooter or wheelchair. I used mini maglites and sticky tape Bicycle lights and reflectors. white on the front, red on the back. Ebay, horribly cheap or wickedly expensive. take your pick.  `not so much to let you see where you're going but to light yourself up for others.  You think this is overkill, you need to get out more. Using a chair or a scooter Ive gone from 6 foot tall to around 4 foot and people really don't look  where they're going.  Its nothing to do with race, age or nationality. Stupidity is global
I used to love travelling. Even the journey, getting there was part of the fun. Delayed, haul out a book, look around and attempt to conserve your stock of jellybeans.  Nowadays its easier than ever. Thanks to modern technology I travel with one less rucksack, books and music go into a mini iPad in my pocket. (all you have to remember is pack the cables and chargers)  As my condition deteriorated I grew to hate it, too much trouble, not enough time and even  a place as pretty as Barcelona could lift my spirits.  It wasn’t great, not the cities fault. I was just wearing out. Now I go travelling. A walking stick for dire emergency. Either a Self propelled wheelchair, a scooter or a power chair.    Plan A is take the scooter with you on the plane and rent a manual chair, (thats the one you push yourself . Herein known as an SPW.) when you get there. Its a lot less expensive. (Don’t forget the charger). It means you tootle about on the wheelchair while the scooter’s charging. Plan B. SPW on the plane and scooter or power chair when you get there, sourcing it might be difficult, And it will be expensive, but, its personal preference.  Why the SPW, well it’ll fit in a taxi or a bus. A power chair won’t. My scooters were pretty good, comfortable for eurostreets  (cobbles) and folded to fit.  I’ve a wheelchair for home and one for travel. The one for home is a nice one, but wheels, sides, and footplates  come off, the very things you don’t want to get lost in the hold of a plane.  The travel one, folds, thats it. Nothing comes off. Just as we were congratulating ourselves on having a travel proof piece of kit. There was something badly wrong. One of the brake locks was jammed against the tyre. Alloy is great, but it’s  bendable by an idiot. It was unbent by judicious use of a hammer.   Thats mine there, a Quickie Revolution. 26inch, little tippy now sporting black tyres.  Thats the orange one at the top. Since sold after a massive steam clean for a silly amount of money. The original  scooter is a Liteway 3, which comes apart, tubular framed. tight turning circle and it all comes apart. So it will fit in a taxi boot. Especially if its a Skoda Superb which seems to be hugely popular these days. IMG_0206.jpgIMG_0206.jpg My previous was a Shoprider Napoli which was great for kerbs and cobbles. I looked like a big kids trike and considering where it went. It was.  Tiller folds, seat comes off, battery comes out. So it comes down to three major components. Do not tell the airplane people, they will leave a bit on the plane. And take the key, better still take two (keys) Thats a Liteway 3. It does all that and goes back together again  I personally  tend to dump the armrests. They get battered on doors and catch on everything. And its just something else to lose.  A nice sized floorpan  so you can shift about a bit.  It all goes into the boot of a decent sized car. So it should fit into the rear of a taxi at a push.  Standard walking stick, I usually gaffer tape a folder to my scooter after getting a wooden one caught between a train and platform in Berlin. I thought I’d broken the train. The under seat basket is handy. The front one something off an embarrassment. On the WTF is that. May I recommend the Flexyfoot , check it out at flexyfoot.com .  The clever bit is the ferrule  (thats the bit which contacts the ground, unless you have it upside down) The design means that the maximum amount of tread is on the ground at any one time.  Great for wet and rough terrain.  And it works. Available for various stick circumferences. Ive an original flexyfoot and  the ferrule on an Ossenberg for weddings and formal occasions.  Crutches, I  don’t use them, death traps and those three wheeled walker things, not at all. Wheelchair gloves, use the full finger gloves, you really don’t want to look like a failed Egyptian weightlifter.  Something which has proved really useful on my travels has been lights on my scooter or wheelchair. I used mini maglites and sticky tape Bicycle lights and reflectors. white on the front, red on the back. Ebay, horribly cheap or wickedly expensive. take your pick.  `not so much to let you see where you’re going but to light yourself up for others.  You think this is overkill, you need to get out more. Using a chair or a scooter Ive gone from 6 foot tall to around 4 foot and people really don’t look  where they’re going.  Its nothing to do with race, age or nationality. Stupidity is global