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Each wheelchair is custom so it's totally different than other products.
by diebeforei485 2y ago
Each wheelchair is custom so it's totally different than other products.
- xnx 2y agoIs it totally different? Bikes are made and adjusted for a huge variety of body types. I understand there are different needs for wheel chair users, but I would think some level of adjustment would be possible to accommodate most of those.
- dghlsakjg 2y agoYou have to think about scale too. A run of bike frames in a particular size, even for the high end, is probably four digits for a very niche customer. The cost of jigs and prototyping is well spread out. For a given wheelchair, the market is probably an order of magnitude smaller, if not more so. That means that factory setup and development costs that amortize to $X00 for a bike produced in the thousands, balloons to $X,000 for a wheelchair.
- diebeforei485 2y agoHere is what a wheelchair order form looks like: https://www.adaptivespecialties.com/PDF/TiLite_AeroZ_series2_as.pdf https://www.adaptivespecialties.com/PDF/TiLite_AeroZ_series2...
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- kanwisher 2y agonot at all I've been buying wheel chairs for my sister for a decade now. finally electric ones from china are getting to $1500-2000 range, before it was $10k-20k when they can scam insurance companies
- diebeforei485 2y agoSounds like you aren't buying custom wheelchairs then. This is what the order form for a custom wheelchair looks like. Look at the customization possibilities: https://www.adaptivespecialties.com/PDF/TiLite_AeroZ_series2_as.pdf https://www.adaptivespecialties.com/PDF/TiLite_AeroZ_series2...