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Walking to work recently, I was passed in the street by a battery powered mobility scooter. At the same moment, glorious fate made it that a bad ass motorbike fired up behind me, and for one wonderful moment I thought the gutteral growl was eminating from the 12 volt 5mph wheelchair.
If that scooter
*had* made that noise, what a wonderful world it would be.
Python, DC.
http://orangecow.or...etches/grannies.htm
[po, Nov 28 2005]
Pimp My Scooter
Pimp_20My_20Scooter
Pimp my shameless self-promotion... [zen_tom, Nov 28 2005]
Overdone already
Pimp_20my_20Stroller
just saying .... 'enough' [sophocles, Nov 28 2005]
Wheelchairs with motorcycle engines
http://www.amadirec...004/Wheelchairs.asp
[skinflaps, Nov 29 2005]
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wonderful thought! welcome back ratty! |
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Was it Bennie Hill or the Goodies who used to have the Hell's Grannies skit? |
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//Pension day's the worst - they go mad. As soon as they get their hands on their money they blow it all on milk, bread, tea, tin of meat for the cat// |
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brum <rev> bruuuuum <rev> |
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The "pimp my..." thing has been done to death already. |
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//I remember when pimping was a bad thing, when it meant selling women for money.// |
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My son and his buddies call'em oldsmobiles. |
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Are you proposing anything here? |
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//Are you proposing anything here?// |
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Brizzles: my proposal is: There should be a facility for adding unexpected sounds, such as revving engines, to a set of fairly mundane battery powered vehicles, for the purposes of confronting stereotypes often imposed upon mobility scooter users, empowering individuals to express individuality rather than being confined to a battleship grey chair, and generally making the world a more beautiful place. |
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po - thanks, sorry it's been a while! |
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"...generally making the world a more beautiful place" - a more noisy place, certainly. |
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I can't remember who makes them, but one of the mainstream Japanese motorcycle manufacturers has a wheelchair compatible model. Normal motorbike front forks and handlebars attached to a trike sled with a drawbridge style loading ramp at the back. You ride your wheelchair into the back of it, clamp it in place, lift the tailgate and ride. |
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And the only one I've ever seen in real life was pimped to the max - "Grow Old Disgracefully" stickers, anit-nuke slogans, foxtail on the mirror, pumping sound system. |
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Linky, seems that these people have done it (130 mph!) |
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Pimpin' ain't easy...just geezy. |
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Get pimped or die trying... |
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//seems that these people have done it (130 mph!)// 130 mph in a wheelchair...what could possibly go wrong? |
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At least you'd already be in an appropriate chair. |
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