New enabled Spyder rider. Adaptions and advice needed. Is there a Walker holder?

[White Widower]

Great idea

You may want to check out Spyder Ryder of America - San Diego chapter on Facebook if you dad is looking for local riders.

Thanks, Ann. I looked on the Chapters list and didn't see San Diego. Thanks for the info!

 

[White Widower]

Wow!

I have seen people put their walkers on the back or they make a bracket on the non pipe side. I have a wheelchair bracket on my back seat and scotty has a very good idea with nancy getting on from the pipe side if it helps.

talk to anyone from isci about floorboards and a handbrake, they give a discount if your jacked up and anyone with basic mechanical knowledge can put it on in about 2 hours.

here is a video of how I do it

enjoy the ride.

Seth, thanks for the video and info. You obviously are a pro at it now. You must have some serious upper body strength. The video is ideal because one cannot imagine the process. You make it look easy and it most definitely is not! Very best regards.

 

[micnugent]

RT Mounting with bum leg

I have CP and it effects my legs and I mount the RT by stepping on the passenger left footboard with my left foot then pivoting my foot and body. Then I grab my right cuff and pull my foot then leg over the rear seat. When dismounting I slide back into the passenger seat and sort of layback and swing my leg over the glove box. I just worry that I will rip the seat one day from scuffing my foot across the seat. Hope this helps a bit.

 

[Doktor]

My wife had her right hip repaired just over a year ago. When I remind her, she will step up on the right driver floorboard, then swing her left leg over to the left driver's board, then scoot back into the passenger seat, then I can swing through with my right leg to the right side by stepping on the left floorboard, my hip was injured when we went down on my GL1800 and I tried to keep it from falling. It has worked for us very well.
The trick is to get the least injured limb to do the most work.


Doc

 

[Henning]

Walkerholder, and cp rider

check out my video

 

[Pennyrick]

Seth, thanks for the video and info. You obviously are a pro at it now. You must have some serious upper body strength. The video is ideal because one cannot imagine the process. You make it look easy and it most definitely is not! Very best regards.

Seth stayed at the same hotel as we did at the Spyder owners meet last June in Maggie Valley and we watched in awe as he hopped on his machine, swung the chair (with little effort, it seemed) up onto the rear of the Spyder, strapped everything down (including his legs) and roared off. Proved to us that there are no limitations if one puts their mind to the task.

Like Scotty's wife, Nancy, my wife Penny has limitations. Her right arm is paralyzed (from an encounter 35 year's ago with a ten ton truck cresting a hill on the wrong side of the road and her Suzuki GS 1000. The truck put my Suzuki, (riding in front) off the road but caught her machine almost broadside as she tried to hit the culvert on the right side. She also has leg damage but still rides her RT regularly and we take a lot of trips.

Penny mounts the Spyder from the left side by putting her right foot on the left peg. She then straightens up and places her left foot on the passenger's mount. She then swings her right leg over the Spyder in front of her body, rather than behind. She also has the ISCI handbrake installed. Even though she doesn't have use of the arm, her hand is fine once it is on the grip and she has enough strength to use the handbrake, although we had to change out the lever to get her more leverage.

At age 75, I have a long way to go to catch up to your dad but where there is a will there is a way.