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teft@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 1y (12 replies)

I know a couple wheelchair users who would send it. There are guys here in medellin that ride their wheelchairs in the skate parks.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I wonder how those guys ended up in wheelchairs.

brewery@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There must be one who were always more risky but I have heard some change after an accident and think, well what could go wrong now, might as well go for it

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y

"What's the worst that happens, I break a leg?"

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I would love to see that, is competitive wheelchair skateboarding a thing? Because I'd watch the shit out of that!

teft@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y (6 replies)

It's a thing. It's called WCMX like BMX but wheelchair instead of bike.

https://www.worldwcmx.org/

blarghly@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Found a video. Legit looks pretty sick. I just can't help but think that the tech still looks pretty primitive, and wonder what future iterations of these chairs will look like.

teft@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

The chairs are essentially full suspension bmx frames and wheels in the form of a wheel chair. They’re legit.

EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Fuck, that's amazing! That guy is pretty impressive.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The "let me just jump into a new wheelchair" was fantastic

baines@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y

i was digging the grind down the center of the chair

but i wish he wouldn’t do flips, those chairs are heavy and he barely had clearance

baines@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y

awesome vid but that dude is chasing a serious injury

Alaik@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 1y

About to say, some guy in a wheelchair with the ol Popeye forearms is gonna break records on that ramp.

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 1y

For a brief moment in time, nana never felt more alive.

morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de · 36 pts · 1y (3 replies)

TÜV sagt nein.

DIN 18040

Ramps, external ramp, internal ramp, handrail

Access areas at entrances with a gradient of 3% or more must be designed as ramps. With a length of up to 10 m, a longitudinal gradient of up to 4% is permitted. Ramps must be safe to walk and drive on. Drainage must be ensured in the outdoor area.

Ramps in public areas must always be designed in accordance with DIN 18040-1 with a maximum gradient of 6% and without a transverse gradient!

  • Longitudinal gradient: max.6%
  • Transverse gradient: 0
  • Clear width: min.1.20m
  • Length of ramp run: max.6.00m
  • Length of intermediate landing: min.1.50m
  • Height of wheel deflector: min.0.10m
  • Height of handrail on both sides: 0.85 to 0.95m with flush finish
  • Handrail diameter: 0.035 to 0.04m
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

6% gradient, 100% gradient, what's the difference really

myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Everything is relative anyway. Just choose a different plane of reference and you're good to go!

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

That’s a manufacturer’s opinion

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 1y (4 replies)

When its wet like this it would serve as a great slide. Just take some plastic sheet or something and down you go :)

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And wear your plate mail underpants, lest you learn the true meaning of splinters.

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

That's why you need the sheet

i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y

Linoleum works great for this

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 1y

Just make sure nobody is on the way up/down lmao

pH3ra@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 1y (6 replies)

*Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 ska tune starts*

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y

Stephen Hawking Pro Wheelchair*

florge@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y

Lights out!

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think he's talking about Superman by Goldfinger. I think that was in thps1 though

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it uuuuuuuuup!

That makes more sense, excellent song, excellent soundtrack!

pH3ra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Pfff... Goddamn fact checkers and their party pooping...

Pothetato@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

Just need some redbull

markz@suppo.fi · 24 pts · 1y (2 replies)

ACCESSIBLE

The insult on top

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

What's wrong, McFly? Chicken?

CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Cowabunga, it is.

cRazi_man@europe.pub · 24 pts · 1y

Cowabanga

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Checkbox compliance

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 1y

Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Put a winch at the top and this could work..

xia@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

...along with another person to operate the winch, coordination/communication, and a special harness to make sure the wheelchair occupant does not tip backwards or start skewing left or right mid-flight... and maybe some special insurance.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Where's that bottom step going though?

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If you check where the handrail supports are each step with one extends out and supports the beams

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I mean that doesn't feel normal, like the steps were put in, and then a few people fell off and so the handrail had to be installed by taking off a few steps, putting in an extended one and doing it that way.

I'd say the ramp is probably for pushing a bike up and down it or something, and the wheelchair sticker is just a joke.

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Well of course it's a joke. I just answered your question of where the step is going.

Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I am suspicious that this is ai.

There are very strange contractual elements and structural decisions in all of this, yet i find no digital artifacts.

a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

This compulsive uttering of "this is AI!" is starting to annoy me more than any AI picture. Nothing personal against you - you are just one of many who are guilty of this. Humans are very good at building crappy stuff and then claiming that it's safe and wheelchair accessible.

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

But nothing really sticks out as ai. The text is legible even though a bit blurry. I doubt ai would get that right.

burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Which support beams? The handrail supporst are fixed to an extended step where they are. I assume that is the same for the lowest one.

neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

🎢

mrfriki@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Launch pad.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Weeeeeeeeee (said in Glados' voice from portal)

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

BRB, launching a disabled person across the carpark.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

This looks not so safe for people who aren’t in a wheelchair.

notso@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y

hemmes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Weeeee!

jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

if they added a handrail it would probably be usable

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Descriptive versus prescriptive

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
tunda@layer8.space · 3 pts · 1y

@The_Picard_Maneuver Is exactly what cooperations means under accessibility.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Risky.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y

They polished and waxed it to prevent splinters!

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 1y

Not for a wheel-chair, but a tractor-chair.

Hello_there@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

Meant for rapelling?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

The stair looks more dangerous tho.