h a l f b a k e r yNo, not that kind of baked.
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Why should the youngsters have all the fun?
I visualise a walking frame with skateboard-system wheels [rocking axles that lean-steer] and a deck.
Fit oldies could scoot themselves along and the less fit would use a battery-driven version.
Step on it and it goes. Step off it and it stops.
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My mum sometimes uses a walker, although she relies on a cane most of the time--I'd really worry that if she rode a walker-skateboard she'd biff and break a hip. Perhaps if the walker was suitably stable, though, it would be workable... |
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Wheelbase would need to be wide - are you thinking 3 or 4 wheels? |
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Wheelbase would need to be wide - are you thinking 3 or 4 wheels? If 3 - front might be 1 oversized steer and/or drive wheel. |
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I can envisage something that looks like a chariot but without the horses. A combination of the walking frame, that [Dog Ed] suggested, with a radical wheeled board of some kind. |
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I was leg-pulling about the leg-pushing of an unpowered model, but I'm more serious about a powered four-wheeled "chariot without the horses" [Aristotle], steered for simplicity, using the skateboard principle. |
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[Peter Sealy} Forgive me for contradicting you, but the idea isn't baked as far as I have searched. |
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But if the reader hasn't read then the writer hasn't written. |
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The confusion therefor is my fault. |
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I should have explained I use a three-wheeled "battery-powered mobility scooter" on dry days, and a walking frame on wet days so I'm very familiar with the genre. |
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A powered walking frame would be a novel hybrid between the two, much cheaper to make than my "powered armchair so-called scooter", handier to use indoors with its short wheelbase, and prototypable using existing technology. |
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skateboard lean-steer will only work with a single line of trucks which is too unstable + un-manouvreable for both old people and indoor use |
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a much more practical idea would be for volunteers to chopped in half at the waist and fitted with bionic legs |
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How about 18 wheels, just to be safe, and it turns itself off when you get off, but also, if you want, every 5 minutes. (For those people that fall asleep all the time.) And it wouldn't go very fast. |
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Old people have walkers because they're uncoordinated and have poor balance, even when moving very slowly. |
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Young people use skateboards because it is fun to excercize their coordination and balance while moving very quickly. |
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You can see how this idea obviously qualifies as poopulation control. Old people on skateboards would lead to a sharp increase in old people on skateboards getting run over by cars in traffic. |
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you could have made more of an effort with the name...come on. |
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