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    There’s a pretty cool guy on YouTube called JerryRigEverything. He started a non-profit company called Not A Wheelchair that makes electric wheel chairs that can be used off road.
    I’m on mobile so linking is hard, but check out notawheelchair.com to see what they make.
    Edit: Oh, it auto links. Neat.

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      I remember when he was prototyping that for his then girlfriend (not sure where they are in their relationship now) and when he announced that it was going to a bigger scale and the proceeds were going to go to some really good places I was stoked. He’s come so far from where he started!

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      First I saw these wheelchairs was when the youtuber GoodTimesWithScar did a video on one

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      $5k is pretty wild for something that looks like it was DIY’d in someone’s garage with square tubing…

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          You realize this is Not a Wheelchair, right?

          Wheelchairs are medical devices and sell with the appropriate taxes applied. Hence why it’s called Not a Wheelchair.

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            You realize that’s a medical insurance grift right? Just like it doesn’t cost $20 for one advil unless you are in the ER

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              You realize that’s exactly the point I was making, right?

              This is Not a Wheelchair, and thus not susceptible to such grifts.

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        It doesn’t look like that at all. It looks pretty good, actually. Try building one yourself and show us how good yours looks.

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          LOL yes, let me spend dozens of hours of my time building a wheelchair I don’t need with tools I don’t have to placate idiots on the internet.

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            So you agree that you can’t do it.

            Then why are you talking shit?

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              No I did not agree. You just pulled that out of your ass. I could absolutely do it. I’ve built much more complicated things for much less.

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      That looks more ch more useful and gentler on nature. Also easier for someone to fetch when it inevitably breaks down. Seems like you should have a seatbelt, maybe some sort of leg guides, useful racks, a phone/go-pro mount, etc