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Hi all,

I thought I'd post a picture of my new wheelchair, designed and produced by Bromakin Wheelchairs ( http://www.bromakin.co.uk/ ) in the UK.

Note the froglegs rear suspention system, it gives a really smooth ride over rough ground. Also, I've added a speedometer to see how fast (or slow!) I can go.

Simon

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[kanga2433]

Hi Simon, what a great looking chair.

I take it it must be very light. What model did you have from Bromakin? I am looking for a new chair, as you will see lower down the forum and this looks a good one to consider. Will you be able to tell us how it compares with your old chair later when you have had some experience of it?

Oh, and where do you get a speedo for a chair? I like the look of that. I have a quite steep hill nearby and I think I must make nearer 30mp on the way down!

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Hi Kanga,

The model of chair is the Street Classic Ti.

So far it's performance is great, it's easier to push and freewheels for longer.

As the chair has a cross support from the front castor housing to the back of the frame, it is also more ridged than my old "Cantelever" type of chair. This means that if I hit a stone in the road with my front castor, the chair just goes over it.

With the "Cantelever" type of chair, I found if I hit a stone with my front castor, the front of the frame would flex and absorb my forward momentum causing the chair to stop suddenly.

I also think the chair is better engineered than my old RGK HiLite Ti, but then my old RGK was about 8 years old.

You can get the speedometers from most bike shops, even halfords sell them. Once you have it on your chair, you just program the circumference of your rear wheel into the computer, and off you go!

Now where's that hill?

Simon

[laura]

hi,

simon, wondering how you are getting on with your bromakin wheelchair..?

good bits? bad bits?


what about everyone else , how are your wheelchairs living up in the real world? (not the Co. opinions!) what would you change,if anything?!

thank you in advance
laura

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laura, on Jan 21 2007, 05:18 PM, said:

Simon, wondering how you are getting on with your bromakin wheelchair..?

good bits? bad bits?

Hi,

Well, the only thing that anoys me so far are the bolts which hold the front castors on. They stick out a bit and if you get really close to a skirting board, and catch it, the end of the bolts can dig into the wood.

This is only a minor irritation though, and can be easily fixed by adding rounded bolts. I just haven't got around to it.

Another anoying thing, is that although pnumatic front castors give a very smooth ride, they do need pumping up every now and again.

These are very minor irritations though, and on the whole, the chair is great.

I'll never go back to a wheelchair without rear suspension, it makes so much difference when going up / down kerbs, or over cobbles etc.

Overall, I'd definatly reccommend this chair.

Simon.

[ton-up-gaz]

simon
i had the same problem with the nuts and bolts on my castors, the solution i found was at my local car shop plastic/rubber nut bolt covers they work great no more scratches just black marks sometimes


my present chair is a lomax active 2 through wheelchair sevices , no major problems at all the only niggle i had was the black push rims soon became marked scratched so i took them off and put paint remover on then polished them up and finally gave them a couple of coats of clear laquer, now i have shiny push rims where marks dont show as much

[Izziwhizzi]

Hi Simon

Your chair looks & sounds fab. Did you get much of a wheelchair voucher budget towards your chair?

I found my area very tight with their budget - last time I got £250 and £250 to upkeep it myself - & they recommended a chair for me which gave me a bad pressure point so I have ended up back in my old one.

When I stayed in Stoke nearly 4 years ago for a couple of weeks I found that new breaks were nearly all getting the total value of light weight chairs via vouchers (some as much as £2k) & I wondered wether they do this as they have physios & OT pushing & specifies their chairs, whilst us oldies in the non hospitalised environment just get the left over low budgets.

Also never heard of the rear wheel suspension so will look into that. Makes me want to book an appointment with Sheila & co.

Cheers
L xx

[jane]

I got a bromakin chair and i love it.

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Did you get much of a wheelchair voucher budget towards your chair?

I think I got about £700.00 in the end, I know it was more than I was supposed to get, but I just kept quite!

I also got a new Jay cusion at the same time.

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the solution i found was at my local car shop plastic/rubber nut bolt covers they work great no more scratches

Thanks, I think I'm going to try and find some low profile bolts though, that should do the trick.

Regards

Simon.

[QuadMedic]

Nice ride there Simon .....

[milosh]

not bad at all! 700GBP? neither pricey too! ;)

[LadyPilot]

jane, on Jan 30 2007, 06:18 AM, said:

I got a bromakin chair and i love it.

I've had my Bromakin Street Classic Titanium for 5 years and my only grumble is that I wished Id had pneumatics on the front instead of the solid casters. Otherwise its the most comfortable chair Ive ever used. Well worth the 2K+ it cost!!