[Somebody]

Apparelyzed, on May 7 2006, 04:59 AM, said:

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.

My exact thought too. lol

[KarenFerguson]

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.

[azx43]

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.

[hanguk]

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

[gsp23]

azx43, on Nov 6 2007, 06:38 PM, said:

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.

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.

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[azx43]

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!

[knight]

19x19 for me

[kewlcatkez]

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

[carole338]

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

[jimwa]

16 inches but tighter than it used to be.

[Motor]

jimwa, on Apr 17 2008, 02:14 PM, said:

16 inches but tighter than it used to be.

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

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[knowthill]

20" But working on a new one.

[ems]

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!

[E-DOG]

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!

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[City Girl]

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.

[carole338]

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



Oh Yeah!!! So where is your Picture??

[Jax]

LadyPilot, on Jun 22 2006, 01:58 PM, said:

milosh, on Jun 15 2006, 02:07 PM, said:

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.

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

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.

[twisted_ophelia]

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

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[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

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".

[Bagpuss-wheels]

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

>v,,^<

[Travelling Blackbird]

Does my bum look big in this?

The seat is 16 inches wide, and I could probably fit in a 14. I'm a skinny little get.

The company I bought it through kept trying to talk me up to an 18, because they said a 16 was a woman's size, and I'd probably put on weight and regret the narrow seat. I should be so lucky - I've been trying to put on weight for years!

[hipcrip]

My current chair is 18", but my new one is a 20" so that when I will have room to tuck in winter clothing when we move back to Michigan.

--HC

[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

hipcrip, on Mar 5 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

My current chair is 18", but my new one is a 20" so that when I will have room to tuck in winter clothing when we move back to Michigan.

Ya, but with a 20" how do you fit through doorways?

[Travelling Blackbird]

Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO), on Mar 6 2009, 07:20 AM, said:

hipcrip, on Mar 5 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

My current chair is 18", but my new one is a 20" so that when I will have room to tuck in winter clothing when we move back to Michigan.

Ya, but with a 20" how do you fit through doorways?

Depends on the doorway. ;)

In Europe, a 20-inch seat would start to be a problem: elevators and exterior doors can have non-standard widths anywhere from 22 to 30+ inches. Interior doors can also be quite narrow. I felt like there was more of a standard in the US, and that I generally had more clearance room than here.

[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

Ya, we have the ADA laws (Americans with Disabilities Act-1989) which stipulates that all new buildings, as well as renovations done on older buildings, comply with a set standard guideline for wheelchair accessibility...It really a godsend for chair users out here...I think on of the biggest issues in europe as a whole, is that the vast majority of buildings are MUCH older and therefor are much harder & more expensive to retrofit for wheelchair accessibility.

[Travelling Blackbird]

Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO), on Mar 7 2009, 08:45 AM, said:

Ya, we have the ADA laws (Americans with Disabilities Act-1989) which stipulates that all new buildings, as well as renovations done on older buildings, comply with a set standard guideline for wheelchair accessibility...It really a godsend for chair users out here...I think on of the biggest issues in europe as a whole, is that the vast majority of buildings are MUCH older and therefor are much harder & more expensive to retrofit for wheelchair accessibility.

I definitely saw the benefits of the ADA laws when I lived in the US, and would like to see more comprehensive laws being brought in over here. However, as you say, a major problem in Europe is also the age of the buildings and the cities.



Take Amsterdam: if you wanted to adapt many of the buildings there, you'd have to change the entire facade of the ground floor, dropping and widening doorways and hallways, putting in ramps, and so on. Take the London Underground: many of the zone 1 stations have such limited overground presences that you'd have a hard time finding space to add a lift (you say elevator here ;) ) without knocking through into a surrounding building - Marble Arch is a great example. Take Cologne: even though many of the city center buildings have wide enough entrances, everything down by the river has at least three steps up into it, not to mention the acres of really old cobblestones through the old town. Different countries are putting effort in, but the costs really hold them back.

Dublin's claim that they're going to be Europe's first fully accessible city... I'll believe it when I see it. The Dublin I lived in was the least accessible place I'd ever been.

And back to the topic...

[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

LOL, try Paris sometime!...That is about as inaccessible as a city can get...Danm good chairskating though, if your into that kind of thing! ;)

[Travelling Blackbird]

Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO), on Mar 10 2009, 08:40 AM, said:

LOL, try Paris sometime!...That is about as inaccessible as a city can get...Danm good chairskating though, if your into that kind of thing! ;)

Paris comes a close second to Dublin for inaccessibility.

One common feature of those cities is that the people themselves seem to be intolerant of/impatient towards wheelchair users. Dublin's the only city in the world where I've been flat-out refused help by a shop assistant (I wanted help getting over the high step at the doorway, or for him to bring me one of the items so I could get a look at it). Paris is one of the only places where I've had people cut in front of me to get into elevators, blocking me from getting in... although San Francisco was another one, so it's not exclusively a European thing.

[rue2you]

My new chair is being ordered. When I was measured (and became paralyzed) I was 5 months pregnant. My belly does not get big and cute like other pregnant ladies. My hips and rear end start spreading. So, the wheelchair guy wanted to order me a 19 inch (maybe even 20 he said) and make sure I had room to spread. However, now that I know a little more about it all I am insisting on a 18 inch chair and maybe I should even go 17 inch. I don't really know. I know that I have never been skinny and I do carry weight in my hips and rump so maybe I should say 18. However, I KNOW that 19 and 20 would be too big for me after I have the baby. Now that I only have about 10 more weeks to go, I would rather be a little tight in a chair for a few more weeks, than to be swallowed in a chair for the next 5 years. So, I am going to insist on the smaller chair. If it is still a little tight a couple months after I have the baby, then that will be a good incentive to lose a few pounds!!

[CR_L1]

19 inches [ 7 ] [5.26%]
20 inches [ 9 ] [6.77%]
21 inches [ 0 ] [0.00%]
22 inches [ 4 ] [3.01%]
Bigger than 22 inches [ 1 ] [0.75%]

I just entered my vote & now I'm on a high, there are others like me out there....
I'm one of the 5.26% currently on a 19 inch

however I could really do with a 20 but don't tell anyone