Did your first chair suck?

[Myc0]

Yeah, I inherited my grandfathers 15 year old relic, but I got rid of that thing ASAP.

[keps]

My first chair was an Action 2000. Those chairs are pure evil.

A horrible heavy folder. Ugh. The measurements were fine....it was just a heavy heap of crap.
Banging my feet on the front castors every time I turned, knocking the brakes off every time I transferred; that really wound me up.

I had to put up with it for over a year, as I had to wait months and months for an appointment to see wheelchair services (who helped with the cost of a chair of my choice).
I've now had my rigid Quickie Argon since last January, and I am still really pleased with it.


Oh, what did I learn? That folders are horrid, and physiotherapists don't always know best. (I'll do my own measurements, thanks)

[canuck]

It was a E&J Premier, 16x16, I was 10, I'm now in a 15x16 Ti Lite ZRA & 37 Since I'm still not exactly giant size anybody see a problem with the measurements on the E&J Premier? I'm not sure what did more damage to my body pushing that tank for 6 years or crutch walking.

[LaMemChose]

That first bad one was a total teaching experience:

-learned from well-meaning, intrusive strangers why push handles were a bad idea.

-improper seating taught me why seating clinics are such a great idea.

-size matters. Anything over 17.5 lb. is torturously too much.

-One arm drive ... it's a good thing.

-came to understand a chair should fit to me, not me trying to fit a chair 'cause the DME got stuck with a tanker.

-Anything named "Inva" anything (as in Invacare) isn't something I had to own again.

[keps]

I'm with Mem on Invacare.

Action chairs are made by them.

This is what my first chair was like...

[justadildo]

aahhhgggg......too big...too slow...too granny.....was unsafe to use in less than a year.....what a piece of crap....but now i've had my bulletproof 222se for over a year n i'm just fine!

[mingo]

Originally Posted by betheny

Experience is a brutal teacher, what did you learn?

How did it suck? I can not recall the ways, but my best of "bad momemts" was it popping fuses while going up a ramp of sorts and I rolled out into the road between classes. In the cold rain, ... in January. Nobody around for 20 minutes.

I learned no man is or should be an island in the rain.

[JerryF504]

My first chair was a loaner from my rehab hospital. I'm not sure that anyone could use it. The axel was all the way back and if you sneezed in it you would use the tippers, that's without abs being a T4. My PT put 16lbs of weight on the front to keep me from killing myself, but it still wanted to flip very easily. Here's a pic of it.

[justadildo]

my first snapped into neutral in the median crossing the street.......after 45 minutes of waving at every car going by, someone figured i was'nt sitting in 95 degree heat waving to be friendly......i hated that chair ...p.o.s.

[fuentejps]

mine was a piece of junk quikie 2 folder, what a joke. pt's are fucking idiots. i see nothing has change between now and 18 years ago when i got hurt.