Originally Posted by
Dallin
I am on a student engineering team who is looking to build a bicycle for youth with cerebral palsy and wanted to know if anybody out there had experience with this. There are quite a few tricycle options out there, but we would love to build a 2-wheeled bicycle. Other than balancing being difficult, what other potential difficulties would have to be covered? If anybody has any comments, suggestions, or ideas please let me know.
Thanks!
My wife and I
customized ordinary 2-wheel/store bought bicycles for young children with CP and Spina Bifida. My designed/built stabilizers, seat with torso and head support, hand pegs, pedal platforms with leveling, abduction wedge along with fixed gearing, formed handlebars and a pull handle allowed the child to receive beneficial physical AND emotional therapy. We had organizations absorb the cost of the bicycles so they were
FREE for the child/family. This 30+ years ago.