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SPORTS > CYCLING > HANDBIKE > AIDS
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Record number: 532
Last update: May 2005
Last update: May 2005
Editorial data: Testo: Caracciolo A. (Fond. Don Gnocchi), Pasqualetti C. (La Nostra Famiglia) Immagine: www.pva.org
Description:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The athletes who use this assistive device, crossing between wheelchair and tricycle, and called ***handbike, introduce one insufficient or null motility to the lower limbs. The position is seated, to legs lengthened and much lowland. The handle-bar describes a wide beam in order to favor the phase of push. The usual wheels are from 26 " or 24 " with possibility to modify the camber angle. The number of the relationships is variable and the change is placed on the handle-bar. For the athletes with reduced motility to/and the hand/the flank is possible to adapt the change along relationships placing it and to set in action it with the elbow.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The athletes who use this assistive device, crossing between wheelchair and tricycle, and called ***handbike, introduce one insufficient or null motility to the lower limbs. The position is seated, to legs lengthened and much lowland. The handle-bar describes a wide beam in order to favor the phase of push. The usual wheels are from 26 " or 24 " with possibility to modify the camber angle. The number of the relationships is variable and the change is placed on the handle-bar. For the athletes with reduced motility to/and the hand/the flank is possible to adapt the change along relationships placing it and to set in action it with the elbow.