Adaptive Bikes for Special Needs | Adaptive Electric Bikes That Help Individuals with Special Needs

Zoe, is that so fun? This is the Simple Glide 500-watt recumbent e-trike. It is an incredible electric tricycle for riders with MS. If you're battling MS and you don't have leg strength or it's difficult for you to keep a bike upright, you can twist this, and you can still pedal. So your legs are doing some work, but you're also letting the motor do work. So it's a good way to get exercise, and the other cool thing is you're nice and balanced. There's an elongated frame, so it's very stable. You don't have to worry about tipping because of the wheelbase, with the 16-inch wheel in front and 20-inch wheels in the back, it's got a nice center of gravity to it. It's a very safe, easy-to-ride option, and you can decide how much or much you want to work. Now, if you just want to use the throttle, I don't have to pedal at all. If you just want to pedal and not use the throttle, I can just pedal like so, and then the assistance will kick in and I get a little help from there. And there are five levels of pedal assist. So if you're somebody who needs a lot of assistance, you can put it into level five. I'll just demonstrate really quick, when you put it in level five, you're going to start to go really fast. okay, it's a little too fast. I'll put it into level two, and I just get going, and there we go, and the other great thing is that this is a 500-watt motor. So 500 watts of power can propel riders up to 300 pounds. Other cool stuff, like I said, it's fully adjustable right here at the handlebars. You can also fully adjust right here. Okay, like so. It has front and rear disc brakes.

The handlebars also fold down if you want to put it and transport it somewhere. The seat is not easily removable, so if you were to transport it, you would have to leave the seat on. You also have a parking brake so you can get off. The seat very comfortable, and I put an extra pad in there because I like it. But you can also adjust the seat forward or backward depending on how tall you are. There we go. Your battery is down, it's a 15 amp hour battery. So you're going to get a range of up to 50 miles depending on the terrain you're taking on. Now it depends on whether you use the pedal assist or the throttle when you're out for rides. If you just use the throttle, you're going to get less range than if you use the pedal assist. So that's something to pay attention to. The other cool thing is how easy it is to get on and off. So you can lift the armrest, and because of the seat height, which is nice, you don't have to get super low to the ground. Some of the recumbents are very low. So in this case, you can come right here and you can sort of shift, you know, twist your body in and then twist your body out. The other thing is to get out, you know, you can brace yourself and push up. So having a seat about this height makes it easier to get on and off. You don't want to be too low. Makes it even more challenging to get on and off the trike.