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Kathy Baker

 

Joined: Thu Apr 12th, 2012
Location: Near Madison, Wisconsin USA
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Sorry I haven't been around much.  I have had declining health for the last several years.
Not to mention three weeks ago I fell and broke my right shoulder in three places.
I now have my very own steel plate with ten screws.
None the less I am working on a come back.
but more interestingly, I have run across something that might be of interest to photographers.

please let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKe3qMTD0Ac

http://urb-e.com/

https://www.facebook.com/URBErides

Robert



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Hi Kathy, sorry to hear of your accident, must have been an ordeal, hope you are recovering well.

I like the scooters, 20 mile from a charge seems good, perhaps optimistic? have concerns about the viability to use it on busy pavements (sidewalks). Probably OK in wide open spaces, like at an airshow, or around a very large botanic garden, although motorised rides are not allowed at Kew Gardens, in London (Except for disabled of course).

I have a motorised golf trolly to carry the cameras and lenses, of course the water and sandwiches too! The Kew Gardens 'police' didn't object to that...

They would have to catch on in a big way to have public charging points, I just saw my first public car charging points at a motorway services last week, both unused!

Eric



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Oh Kathy, I am so sorry. That must have been very painful and distressing for you? I do hope you are coming through the bad times.

You have been officially welcomed into the 'plated ladies' club. ( my wife has one) ;-)


With regard to the URBe....I think the wheels are too small to give efficient 'drive' on all but flat Tarmac. In most urban situations, in the UK at least, there is a myriad of street furniture and surface defects to cause it stability and ride comfort problems. I bet the wheels and/or bearings don't last long!

I think using it for bags and gear might be useful provided speed can be modulated down to walking pace. With my luck it would shoot off, with all my gear, down the road on its own!

:lol:

jk



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Oh dear Kathy,
Really sounds like you have been in the wars!
I hope that your rehabilitation is quick and full.

Good luck with the motorised transport, it certainly reduces the shoulder strain and especially needed for you at present, but I always worry about the batteries giving out :-)

amazing50

 

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This wouldn't be legal in Ontario and probably most other parts of Canada. Also a helmet is manditory - up to $2000 fine.

As mobility transport goes, for people with disabilities, it seems rather limited.


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