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Top End Crossfire All Terrain Wheelchair
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Rugged custom built rigid frame built of 6061T6 Aluminum with a reinforced open frame design.
Adjustable center of gravity, seat and back upholstery, footrest height/angle. and back height.
Huge 8"x 2" front wheels/tires so that you can roll over anything and not get stuck.


Price: $2,795.00 $2,519.00

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  • MIT Student Designs All-Terrain Wheelchair for the Poor | Design ...

    About 20 million people in developing countries need wheelchairs, but only 1% have them. And that's just the beginning of the problem: Even if those in need had wheelchairs, the probably would work on the rutted and rocky roads that they live with.

    So Amos Winter, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, designed a solution. His Leveraged Freedom Chair is small enough to be used indoors, but it's also kitted with a pair of levers that allows the user to apply extra force to the wheels, and off-road like an ATV. "It is strong and stable in African terrain, and you can travel long distances and uphill without using too much energy," says one of the users, Abdullah Munish, a Tanzanian spinal injury survivor. "I would say that we have [a] life saver ... I just call it my little angel machine."

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    MIT Student Designs All-Terrain Wheelchair for the Poor

    Fast Company - Feb 24, 2010

    MIT Student Designs All-Terrain Wheelchair for the Poor To adjust to rougher terrain, all a user has to do is move her hands along the length o the levers--thus creating more force and torque at the wheels.
    Nonprofit Builds and Donates Low-Cost, Durable Wheelchairs To Haiti

    Huffington Post (blog) - Feb 23, 2010

    build and distribute RoughRider wheelchairs in Haiti. $40 will buy two all terrain wheels, $220 will buy a complete wheelchair with a 10-year lifespan.
    Zenith wheelchair with all-terrain tracks allows freedom of movement

    The Design Blog (blog) - Feb 25, 2010

    Intended toward an independent user who is active, fit and motivated to explore new horizons, the radical wheelchair moves on all-terrain tracks and allow
    Police dispatcher doesn't let injury slow him down

    Visalia Times-Delta - Mar 06, 2010

    Police dispatcher doesn't let injury slow him downAn avid racing fan and participant, Chris Watson always tinkered with vehicles — motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and the 1977 GMC truck that he was and more »
    South African designer: Wheelchair helps disabled in body, mind

    Oneonta Daily Star - Feb 11, 2010

    Northacker said Vets-Help.org also plans to do part of the construction of the special all-terrain wheelchairs in a portion of the Buteau building.
    Liberals hope to move toward a different shade of red

    Vancouver Sun - Mar 02, 2010

    Minister gives personal cheque for $3000 to the Wheelchair Sports Association, then climbs into a chair himself for a vigorous but good-natured rugby and more »
    New invention gives greater mobility to physically disabled

    Putnam Standard - Mar 05, 2010

    This is a large; durable, steel frame that bolts to a power chair and ends almost every mobility limitation wheelchair users face. Avid hunter and fishermen