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Poll: What is the width of your wheelchair? (175 member(s) have cast votes)

So, what's the width of your wheelchair, (this poll is created on behalf of Bubbleandsqueak)?

  1. 14 inches (10 votes [5.65%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.65%

  2. 15 inches (24 votes [13.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.56%

  3. 16 inches (51 votes [28.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 28.81%

  4. 17 inches (18 votes [10.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.17%

  5. 18 inches (46 votes [25.99%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.99%

  6. 19 inches (7 votes [3.95%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.95%

  7. 20 inches (12 votes [6.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.78%

  8. 21 inches (1 votes [0.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.56%

  9. 22 inches (6 votes [3.39%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.39%

  10. Bigger than 22 inches (2 votes [1.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.13%

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#61 Char

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 12:34 AM

14 width and 15 depth for me.....

#62 WetRain

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 07:06 PM

16in wide and 18in depth

quite impressed I've been in this bracket for the last 22 and a bit years


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#63 allister

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:42 AM

17" was 19" 4 yrs ago. always wanted a nice firm butt !!!!

Edited by allister, 10 July 2009 - 07:43 AM.

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#64 USMC_FMAgirl058

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 05:41 PM

I'm either 14 or 15.

...I have no hips, thats pretty much all there is to it.
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No seriously, it works.

#65 cathie

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Posted 11 July 2010 - 06:12 PM

I'm now in a 16" chair down from a 20"

#66 LaurenP

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Posted 18 February 2011 - 09:05 PM

15w X 16d for me woo-woo

#67 Scott_C4-5

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Posted 18 February 2011 - 10:14 PM

22" Seat width and length.

I'm not a big butt man, just a big/tall man.
I wish I was a little frame guy like some others.

I'm 6'6" and around 235lbs. To non-Americans, that's 1.98 meters and 107 kilo's. :)

I may have been in a 20" 20 years ago and I was skinny as a rail then.

I'M NOT A FATTY!! Sorry... got a little defensive. lol

#68 tyvin

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 01:49 PM

16 by 16; fits very nice. If it was any wider I wouldn't be able to fit around my apartment very well. With the 16" wide I find I can fit almost everywhere. So this means I definitely can't gain weight. I don't have a cushion; the whole wheelchair ordering etc...was so botched that I ended up not getting a cushion but I'm an l4/l5 so I do without for now.

I've only had the chair for 6 months and it's already falling apart. I had to take it in because the bearing were falling out of the wheel housing, whenever I go fast the thing shakes, now the bearing are falling out again and the chair rides to one side. It's a type of chair not meant for serious use. It's a thing with the DME place; they keep giving me the business. I know they have quickies but they say that insurance companies won't pay for the quickie Hmmm......I got to do something. The thing is about ready to actually fall apart.

#69 greybeard

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Posted 20 February 2011 - 03:38 PM

View PostScott_C4-5, on 18 February 2011 - 10:14 PM, said:

To non-Americans, that's 1.98 meters and 107 kilo's. :)

No. No. No. That's for those damned continental snail-eating foreign Johnnies.
You mean for us proper non-Americans, you are 6ft 5inches and 16 1/2 stones. :lmao:

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