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Walkin' Wheels is an American brand of dog wheelchairs developed in 2001 by Mark C. Robinson in Amherst, New Hampshire [2] in memory of his pet, Mercedes. [3] The product is intended as a mobility aid for pets with mobility issues such as degenerative myelopathy , arthritis , paralysis , and neurological disorders .
The addition of geared, all-mechanical wheels for manual wheelchairs is a new development incorporating a hypocycloidal reduction gear into the wheel design. The 2-gear wheels can be added to a manual wheelchair. The geared wheels provide a user with additional assistance by providing leverage through gearing (like a bicycle, not a motor).
A motorized wheelchair, powerchair, electric wheelchair, or electric-powered wheelchair (EPW) is a wheelchair that is propelled by means of an electric motor (usually using differential steering) rather than manual power. Motorized wheelchairs are useful for those unable to propel a manual wheelchair or who may need to use a wheelchair for ...
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The RZV500 was one of the first "repli-racers", a near copy of Kenny Roberts competition GP bike, it featured a liquid-cooled two-stroke motor of 500cc displacement in a V4 configuration, along with a perimeter frame and full fairing. [15] A more popular and practical high-performance model for the street was introduced in 1985, the FZ750. It ...
He gathered up enough investors to collect $200,000 (roughly $3.5 million in today’s money), started building a tiny building about 3 stories tall using his own construction crew, and pocketed ...
The wheels can be large, reaching diameters of 75 feet. The most common variation between different wheels are the spokes. There is no set number of spokes for a medicine wheel to have although there are usually 28, the same number of days in a lunar cycle. The spokes within each wheel are rarely evenly spaced, or even all the same length.