SPORTS > BASKETBALL > WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL > AIDS
Record number: 519
Last update: May 2005
Last update: May 2005
Editorial data: Testo: Caracciolo A. (Fond. Don Gnocchi), Pasqualetti C. (La Nostra Famiglia) Immagine: www.paralympic.org
Description:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The wheelchair can have three or four wheels (two posterior and one or two front ones). To the aim to avoid ribaltamenti risks they come used special anti overturning small wheels. The posterior wheels remarkablly ***are campanate (10°/12°) in order to improve the more manageable performances, being in the direction variations and to avoid lateral ribaltamentis. The wheelchair is constituted with materials/super alloys to read with the added one of reinforces around the footrest. The ***copertoni they are of stirs soft in order to avoid to soil/to ruin the paving of the clearance field.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The wheelchair can have three or four wheels (two posterior and one or two front ones). To the aim to avoid ribaltamenti risks they come used special anti overturning small wheels. The posterior wheels remarkablly ***are campanate (10°/12°) in order to improve the more manageable performances, being in the direction variations and to avoid lateral ribaltamentis. The wheelchair is constituted with materials/super alloys to read with the added one of reinforces around the footrest. The ***copertoni they are of stirs soft in order to avoid to soil/to ruin the paving of the clearance field.