I've been using my new Permobile rear wheel drive C350 for about seven weeks now and I have finally gotten used to the Magitek enough to be able to drive it at full speed in my community now. I don't try it on the sidewalks, but I'd definitely use the roads (one of the perks to living in a very small community). Right now my chair only does around 5 mph, but I can probably turn it up some. I do, however, think the Magitek dampens down the ability to drive to much faster than 6 or 7 mph.
BTW, it took me quite a while to get used to the magitek. In fact, I still mess up at least a couple of times a day, but I'm getting better every day. Switching over from the Peachtree was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, a chin control would have been a little too hard for me to use. That's just me though, there are more people using chin controls than magitek. I didn't realize until a couple of weeks after I started using the new chair that the magitek forces me to use a few different muscles in the shoulder and neck then I was using with the Peachtree. Q On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Joan Anglin <poaj...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > That is why I chose to go with the chin controller mounted on the collar > around my neck. I really have excellent control and it cannot bounce away > from me. I was warned that the sip and puff would have problems in our > Reno > climate. Plus I could not see myself bouncing around on a dirt road trying > to hang on to something in my mouth. :-) > I don't usually go very fast-6-7 miles per hour is about my limit. I often > have one, two, or three grandchildren on or about my chair. > The omega trac can have the hitch installed on the back so you can pull the > garden cart. We just hook that cart onto the back and off we go. Great > fun. Joan > >
