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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are disability adapted bikes that cover a wide range of physical disabilities (I've seen up to even only a single arm and head movements). I'm curious what disabilities would actually require exclusively a car for transportation and for which custom bikes wouldn't be enough, do you know of any ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bikes require to keep balance. Powered wheelchairs do not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

is the concept of a trike really that unfathomable to you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's one in the original picture too lol

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

you will find that most people use "bicycle" as a general term for basically anything of vaguely that shape and function.

no one (and i use that in the modern sense of "effectively no one", before you um ackshually me on that) says "cargo tricycle", they say "cargo bike" or "bakfiets", and bakfiets just means "cargo/box bike".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, three-wheeled bikes still count as bikes imo, they're much closer to being bikes than cars.

But I have nothing against powered wheelchair obviously, they aren't cars.