16 inches for me, if I get too big for my cusion, I don't get a bigger cusion, I go in a diet!

Simon.

16 for me too. Always has been for 23 yrs as you say Simon, if you start 'bulging'go on a diet don't get fat!

My seat is 19 inches wide! And even then, my sideguards hold me in somewhat.

Because I am a woman of 5'11", with a big bum!

Even when I was rather underweight - as I was at the time of my injury - my bum was always a bit large for the rest of my body. It's just the way I'm made.

I sit on a 18" cushion, but it is fine. My flab just kind of gently spills over the edge, hehehe.

My chair is 19”. I’ve always been a “big boy” my hips have vary little fat on them I’m just a big boy. Before accident I did football, wrestling, and shot-put.

I use an 18 inch cushion. I use the same pad for my J2 that i got 9 years ago, which was modified so it fitted better in my wheelchair, and just change the gel insert when needed.

Come to think of it, I've had the same wheelchair for the last 9 years! I really need to get another one

Hello newbie here, 14" Seat width and cushion for me, means problems getting a cushion, because most cushions only go down to 15/16".

15/16 for me, always has been sence 1982, roho the way to go for me..

Fat butted 18 inch wide chair here. And I need my side panels. It would be nice to have thyroid function again.

hi everyone, can you attach pictures too of your wheel chairs. how does your brakes look like for manual types? How do you manage flat tires? Who folds the wheel chair when you ride a taxi cab. My wheel chair width is 15" stainless. Thanks to all

Why don't you just ask: "How fat is your butt?" (__|__) j/k

I use to have a 16" but then they ordered a 17" "just in case"

C'mon guys !! . . . what about us skinny butts?

My wheelchairs seats are all 12" (30cm) wide, and I don't spill over by even a millimetre!

Not much padding on the butt, but my chair can go where most others fear to tread!

15" Kuschall Airlite Pro with Primo V-Trak tyres & Jay Active cushion for me. Great combination...but cushion weighs almost as much as the chair!

hi graphic,

do you remove the cushions when you fold your chair or the cushion collapses too when the wheelchair is folded.? Thanks - benok

15 inches here.

i got 2 cushions... roho and handigel. both last me for 10 years and still in perfect condition.

Hi Benok,
The back of the chair folds down on the cushion so there's no need to remove it, but because the cushion's so heavy I find it much easier to remove it for lifting the chair in and out of the car.
Clive

16" cushion for me too. I use a 1" thick Spenco cushion (weighs 10lbs!)heavy but I've neverhad a pressure sore in 24yrs.

Aren't wheel chairs great for letting you know when you need to lose a few pounds!
I've used a folding wheelchair since my accident which is good because it fits behind the passenger seat in the car but 10 months ago I had to go for a rigid because there were no suitable folding chairs. They were all really heavy and in a "geriatric style"!!

Anyone else prefer folding but has to use a rigid?

ladypilot... think you've described something i face now. simply hard to get a folding wheelchair which is small and not geriatric-styled. think i also gotta stick to rigid one. i've found a decent deals on quickie revolution chair. anyone has got experience with it?

hey, seems wheelchair design goes backwards.

years and years ago i've used chair made by german meyra.

you can also consider well-known and truly great kuschall.

but, unfortunately, think both you and i are going to stick to rigid chair.

cushion is 13 wide by 15 long
power chair is 14 wide
manual chair is 13 wide
I use the same cushion on both

It seems that All the light weight / eye pleasing chairs are rigid with minute front wheels and a footplate which tucks under the main frame! WHY?? not all pairs of shoes are the same so why shouldn't there be a wide choice of chair?
I spend a vast amount of my time "off road" and need something which goes where I want to go, not that stops dead at a little bump. In winter when my chair is covered in mud I want a folding chair to put behind the car seat, not be transferring the mud to my clothes as I take the wheels off a rigid.
The folding chair I had was brilliant. American made , but after 20years I finally broke the frame and can't find anyone who welds aluminium ( aluminum to you from US) to fix it

Ladypilot,

Try the following, they may be able to weld aluminium.

Wensum Engineering Ltd
Hempton Road
Fakenham
Norfolk NR21 7LA

tel: 01328 862703
fax: 01328 851110
email: enquiry@wensumengineeringltd.com

http://www.wensumengineeringltd.com/services.html

Regards

Simon

Thanks for that info, They'll probably be closed today so I'll try them on Monday.

Many thanks again...

MY seat width is 16 and shouldn't be more than 17 deep however my new chair, which I'm not totally using yet has a seat depth of 18". I'm not sure how comfy I am in that deep a seat yet as I'm rather short (5'4) and have average but short legs. My chair guy claims he measured me appropriately but that one extra inch or two makes me feel like I'm in a cadillac. No issues with cutting off my circulation so I'm not sure why he felt I needed that depth.

Do any of you know if titanium can be welded? I've heard both yes and no from many people so not sure who to believe (or trust to work on the job)

Not sure! I havn't managed to break my titanium chair with all my "off roading".........yet

Of course it can be welded (how else would they be able to make the chairs in the first place) - HOWEVER it is a very specialist job. I'm not sure where to go but there's bound to be someone on an industrial estate near you somewhere that'll be able to do it.

Lady Pilot - similarly welding aluminium is a specialist job - although not nearly as specialist as titanium. If Simon's suggestion doesn't work I'd suggest talking to a couple of your local bicycle shops and asking where they can suggest for getting cycle frames made / repaired as they'd be able to weld up a wheelchair without any problems.

16" for me, depth of 16" as well.

okay this question sucks! 18 inch cushion and it blew out today.. so no fat jokes!!!!!

wow, old post brought back to life, i had a 20 inch untill I got a new chair a few months back and i specifically asked for a 18 inch so that i would have to lose some weight. So 18 atm.

Old news also, but have you guys that like the folding chairs looked at the tilite folders? We just ordered one for a guy last week and we had a demo in the shop for a few days, if I ever needed a folding chair, it would be the tilite for sure.

There is the tilite x


and the tilite tx

OK, my avatar is my wheelchair. I am 6' 4" but hardly have a butt at all. Sitting on a Jay 2 and no pressure sores in 24 years!

ladypilot,

I used folding chairs for years and only got my first rigid a few years ago. I was so staggered by the ease of pushing compared with the folding chair I had previsouly used I haven't been back to folding and now have a titanium rigid which is great!

Welding Titanium

I gather this has to be welded in an atmosphere of oygen (only oxygen). This makes it rather specialist. I guess one of the wheelcahir makes in the UK could do it though, except Quickie who have all their titianium chairs made in Fresno.

16 inches here and I use nothing but rigid chairs.
They are tougher, sportier and for me personally, handle better and faster.
I drive aggressivly.

This is my new chair which I have had for about 3 months now. Very pleased with it.

Otto Bock Blizzard:

14in for me.........wheeliebear is kinda a babybear.

My exact thought too. lol

My chair is 15x15. What's so frustrating is that it's nearly impossible to find a 15x15 cushion (what the heck?). So, I just get a cheap foam cushion in that size for like $40.00 - works great for me.

With my Tilite, I moved up to an 18 from a 16- gulp!! I'm a Latina girl with lots of HIPS!!!
As for off-roading, I work for the Forest Service so am naturally hiking and going to places thAt are supposedly "inaccessible"quite a bit. I used to have a Quikie XTR, with the under-seat shock and mtn. tires, and it was an awesome chair, but titanium is my new love! I have a Tilite TR with off-road tires (they have blue sidewalls to match my blue spokes), and it's great; I am all over the place in that thing, usually where people don't expect me to be.

16 inches, the most popular answer I see. Any larger than that and my chair would not fit through the bathroom door.

I have a Quickie XTR now and had planned to use it for offroading but it sucks for anything other than trails. For my extreme hunting experiencies through 4-6ft tall weeds, no trails, etc that chair kept launcing me off the front every time I hit some uneven ground like deep holes or cow humps. I ended up just using my Quickie XTR for everyday and modifying my Quickie 2HP for offroad use. The Quickie 2HP is much better than the XTR ever was for my puposes anyways. Here is a pic of my offroad hunting chair.

Oh and in case anyone is wondering... those vGrips on the right side of my chair are use to carry my gun as I am going through the field.

Awesome hunting chair, gsp23!!
Yeah, I hear ya on the XTR. Those front wheels go down like a rock- and out the front I go! Don't I know it. . . Plus, I didn't know as much as I do now about how the center of gravity should be set up, which made the chair extremely tippy! (At least it looked like a "conversation starter"; I had the deep purple frame and mtn. bikke tires. Thje kids that I teach loved it!)
Anyway, I'm happier now. Best of .luck to you in all your hunting adventures!

19x19 for me

I voted already, but I didn't write here...I have a 16/16, should be a 15/16 but they can't get a cushion in those dimensions..lol
The extra inch is good for my coat....lol


Take care,

K

15/16 cushion. It took the thereapist days to analyze my cushion and back rest and still the back rest was wrong when my wheelchair finally came.

Carole

16 inches but tighter than it used to be.

I got a FAT ASS 18 inches for me...(i wish) lol

20" But working on a new one.

ive gone from a 15" after hosp, two years later 14", now in a 13". my basketball chair is a 12"! shame it didn't all move to chest!

Jeez, what a bunch of pikers!
Mine's 24 inches and I damn near fill it. Lots of places I can't fit into, but oh well, that's their loss.
And at almost 300 pounds I'm completely independent.
SO, THERE!
E-dog

and so what if I'm a tad corpulent, I'm UBELEIVABLY cute, with a devastating smile and a winning personality!

15w/16l. I quite like my cushion. It's a Motion Concepts Matrix-v (the cushion is memory foam with some other kind of foam that doesn't hold heat in the summer or cold in the winter). I am tiny and have lots of space around me but I believe that size is fairly standard and an off-the-rack order. I like the extra room to stuff things around me and transport them from one spot to another...given I'm using my hands to transport myself from one spot to another. hehe.

and so what if I'm a tad corpulent, I'm UBELEIVABLY cute, with a devastating smile and a winning personality!
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Oh Yeah!!! So where is your Picture??

Fyu-Jon Folding Chair

I have seen this one, and I know there is at least one more similar chair. Kind of a nifty combination of a folder and a rigid. I do have to agree with the rigid frame owners though, I had a folder for a while, and I find the rigid frame to be MUCH easier to use.

Haha, wow, I voted on this back in 2006! My new chair is 14", going down from a 16".

I started off in a 17, but since i've lost my arse and all the muscle that comes with it, i've gone down to a 15...LOL, if I had'nt calesed my hip bones so much over the years from skateboarding, I could easily fit a 14".

Mine's an 18x18 with a Roho Quadtro (which is actually technically 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 inch cushion!)

Being 5ft 8 tall, and feeling the cold all the time, it was 'decided' (by the wheelchiar services OTs) that I should have an 18x18 seat. I could possibly have a 17inch seat at the moment as I've lost a lot of weight through some nasty kidney infections but I'm on constant steroid tablets because of the 'brittle asthma'/'severe chronic asthma' so may put the weight on again! (NOT that I want to put weight on - it is beyond my control).

As I need a lot of layers of clothing, I need enough room, to tuck the layers in inside my side guards too. I couldn't get down to anything below a 17inch - my hip bones would rub on the side guards. Because of the Scoliosis, if my chair were much narrower, I would be rubbing and creating sores.

Cat

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