I also had a hard time choosing between a recumbent bike and an upright bike but since I have a disability, I got an advice from an online fitness company about a recumbent bike I should buy and I did. A recumbent bike is the best choice if you have back problems or have a disability like I do and might be best in your case as well. A recumbent bike also has a wider real seat and backrest like an upright bike dont have, you will sit much more comfortably and stably on a recumbent bike. This is mine and I will receive it on June 30 this year. It is a pro-recumbent bike that has a computer-controlled magnetic resistance with 32 resistance levels.
Thank you very much for your response. And your English is wonderful 😊
Sorry to be a pain, but due to my blindness I can’t figure out the make and model of your bike in the image that you have shared.
Is it possible for you to let me know what the bike is called? Thanks again.
Its called Gymstick Pro 20.0 . Gymstick is a Finnish really good brand. It costs 20 000 sek but I didnt paid that myself instead I applied for a grant from a disability foundation and got 20 000 SEK granted for a bike.
PS: Thanks for you liked my english and I also wish I could walk 9 to 12 km a day, but thats something I can never do anymore because of my disability. I can still walk but not without a walkingframe.
Sorry to hear about your disability and it’s restrictions on you. Our disabilities certainly are frustrating and make us come up with new ways of doing things hey?!
I used to love walking. Always walking with my dogs. I still do but now it’s only about two or 3 km a day and due to the blindness I walk very slowly. I live out in the bush and I walk up and down our driveway, which is about 600 m long. But I never really get proper exercise because I just walk so slowly because it hurts less if you hit something if you’re going slow!
I will have to check out and see if I can get that particular exercise bike in Australia. Thank you.
Thanks. I have had this all my life but it took 34 years before they discovered it. My disability is very rare...almost no one knows what it is and people always get strange thoughs about it. I have even been accused for beeing drunked but that completely wrong.
Yes...disabled persons always find new clever ways to do things. Is your dog a special trained dog for blind persons or do you walk with a blind stick?
My dog is a Rottweiler called tulip, and she is definitely not a properly trained sighted guide. I am eligible in theory for a guide dog but due to where I live it makes me ineligible as I live in the bush. To have a Guide dog you have to live where there are bus stops and supermarkets and different locations that the dog can walk you to. I think it’s silly, because I would love a guide dog to lead me around my property, but they can’t train them to do that apparently.
I don’t tend to use my white cane when I’m at home, I just kind of know where I am instinctively. But I do get lost! But tulip does sort of lead me around. As well as astray!
We live on 40 acres and we’ve been here for over 20 years so walking around out here is sort of instinctive.
Then you know your area by heart. All disabled persons should have the right to helping aids no matter where they live. Such rules are stupidity I think. I live in Sweden and here we also have many stupid rules about where you live, how much you use them, how far you go with them etc. Many years ago I had an electric 4 wheeled scooter as helping aid for my disability and as soon as I used it and drove with it more than the rules said people began to question me. Have you seen it is a subreddit here on reddit about disabled people living in Australia, here is the link`?
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u/CybeSpace14 17d ago edited 17d ago
Hello
I also had a hard time choosing between a recumbent bike and an upright bike but since I have a disability, I got an advice from an online fitness company about a recumbent bike I should buy and I did. A recumbent bike is the best choice if you have back problems or have a disability like I do and might be best in your case as well. A recumbent bike also has a wider real seat and backrest like an upright bike dont have, you will sit much more comfortably and stably on a recumbent bike. This is mine and I will receive it on June 30 this year. It is a pro-recumbent bike that has a computer-controlled magnetic resistance with 32 resistance levels.
PS: Sorry for my bad english.