My injury level is c6-7, very minimal hand use. I have a quickie 2 folding wheelchair that I attached the bike to. Im 6'2 approx 230 lbs 16 yrs post injury. I bought the bike back in 2010 and have used it hundreds of times and its pretty much trouble free. The chain loosens a bit every so often and I break the plastic part of the c5 quad grips about once per year. since they are over 300.00 per pair I had to configure a fix. Basically the glove part that goes around your hand is screwed to a aluminum post. This post goes in and out of a round hole attached to the bike crank. The plastic glove they use is nothing more than a rollerblade wrist guard you buy from ebay for 25.00. You just take everything apart drill a hole in your new wrist guards and put everything back together and you are good to go another year. store the bike in an upright position so you don't kink the cables. make sure you attach the clamps in the proper position on the wheelchair on initial setup
Ron On Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:32 PM, Gail Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: The man I work for just purchased a dragonfly handcycle after getting a manual chair on ebay on which to attach it. He is a 6 '1" C4-5 complete with no tricep function. He looks incredibly uncomfortable sitting upright (with harness of course) in the manual chair . His brother just put the Handcycle together yesterday and he has yet to try it out as the gloves have not arrived. I thought a recumbent bike with headrest would be more comfortable but is costly. I'm curious as to what level injury you have since this bike is working well for you. Also I would like to know how you reconfigured the quad gloves for $25 Thanks ! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 27, 2014, at 11:34 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote: So far this month I have used my dragonfly handcycle to go 34 miles. I average 30 miles a month. I love how a long crank makes me feel and overall it helps the pain I have. I think im going to try some ephedra to lose some weight b4 winter comes on. Anybody else do any handcycling. I figured out a way to rebuild the c5 grips for 25 bucks. > > >Ron
