360° Wheelchair Reviews, Guides & Expert Insights
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from wrestling with a wheelchair brake using only one working hand — the lever slips, your knuckles catch the tyre, and by the time both wheels are locked you’ve already lost your balance twice. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone, and you’re certainly not doing anything … Read more
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from a brake you can technically reach but can’t quite operate. Not because you’re doing anything wrong — because the standard lever on most manual wheelchairs was designed decades ago for an average hand with average strength, and a lot of hands using wheelchairs today simply aren’t … Read more
Leave a wheelchair or mobility scooter unattended for two minutes outside a café, a hotel lobby, or a train station luggage rack, and you’ve handed an opportunistic thief a very easy target. A wheelchair security cable for travel is a portable locking cable, usually braided steel wrapped in a protective sleeve, that tethers a wheelchair … Read more
Nobody warns you about this bit. You get the wheelchair sorted, the cushion sorted, maybe even the ramp at the front door sorted — and then one day you’re outside a café, chair parked by the window, and a small voice in your head asks: is anyone going to walk off with this thing while … Read more
There’s a specific kind of dread that comes from reaching for your wheel lock and feeling it slip. Maybe it’s on a slope outside the chemist, maybe it’s at the top of a ramp with a kerb waiting below. Wheelchair wheel locks are the unglamorous little levers that quietly do one of the most important … Read more