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Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-24-2009, 10:04 PM Reply   
I was making a bunch of wakeboard benches and getting frames from the local scrap yard.... while rooting through their stuff I found some old shopping carts.... so we made a wakeboard wheelchair... its awesome, super comfy, foot-rest, and bad-ass styling. It rolls so smooth, we've bombed some big hills already, rides like a dream. It'll be a perfect chair for our patio so I don't have to get up to get another beer, just scoot over the the fridge. I think I'll end up making some more



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Old     (saceone)      Join Date: Jan 2009       03-24-2009, 10:26 PM Reply   
you need armrests on that thing. swivel. and polished.
Old     (tommmyd)      Join Date: Jan 2009       03-25-2009, 1:05 AM Reply   
arm rests for sure nick! sick though!
Old     (stokemetercom)      Join Date: Mar 2009       03-25-2009, 5:28 AM Reply   
.......and drink holder.
Old    kidrik            03-25-2009, 5:30 AM Reply   
Don't you have any homework........

I shouldn't laugh, I may need one of those soon!
Old     (pnichols)      Join Date: Jan 2007       03-25-2009, 6:09 AM Reply   
How did you break the Recoil?
Old     (kylielogan)      Join Date: Apr 2006       03-25-2009, 6:43 AM Reply   
you need one of those lounge chair pads for when you're just chillin in the sun drinking that beer!
Old     (andy_nintzel)      Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Minnesnowda       03-25-2009, 9:29 AM Reply   
hahaha thats great.
Old     (stoked_32)      Join Date: Aug 2007       03-25-2009, 9:36 AM Reply   
lol... that's sweet! does it 'holds a strong edge, but breaks loose if you want it to?'
Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-25-2009, 10:29 AM Reply   
The reoil "break" was between two fin holes on the tail a crack was starting... I'm sure it would have lasted a while but SS covered it with warranty anyway so I just put it to rest, it was still okay on the water, just the crack would have eventually made it to the end of the board (I would guess) so they replaced it.

I think arm rests are in order... I think I'm giung to use the old basket part of the shopping cart to make a little tray the comes up from the side and flips over your lap... but soon as summer comes all this ambition will be gone...

and yes, I do have homework, unfortuneatly I'm at that point in the semester where it takes every ounce of determination to do the smallest little thing school related.... with that said, anyone want to hire 3/4 of an Engineer?
Old     (jtnz)      Join Date: Sep 2007       03-25-2009, 4:24 PM Reply   
That is sweet. Is the board just propped up there or attached somehow?
Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-25-2009, 7:16 PM Reply   
Where the boards come together on the back there is a piece of angle iron that they are both bolted onto (some cross member of the cart), the far ends then are free so if whoever is sitting in the chair leans or rocks it'll move to let it happen insted of pulling on the bolts.... So basically 4 bolts hold it all on in the middle, and the ends are free to move depending on the sitters (?) position...like a Lazyboy kinda.
Old     (rnopr8)      Join Date: Apr 2005       03-25-2009, 8:39 PM Reply   
you need to get out on the water, dude!
Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-25-2009, 8:40 PM Reply   
We still have ice...
Old     (rnopr8)      Join Date: Apr 2005       03-25-2009, 8:41 PM Reply   
I know....just messin!!!
Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-25-2009, 8:47 PM Reply   
it is getting close though.... I would guess about a month we can ride here... is it warm enough in CA to ride now?
Old     (rnopr8)      Join Date: Apr 2005       03-25-2009, 8:50 PM Reply   
I have been riding all winter...ready to shed the drysuit now before wake games ...mid 70's today but water is still chilly

(Message edited by rnopr8 on March 25, 2009)
Old     (rnopr8)      Join Date: Apr 2005       03-25-2009, 8:51 PM Reply   
BTW...the wheelchair is very inovative!!
Old     (sidekicknicholas)      Join Date: Mar 2007       03-25-2009, 8:51 PM Reply   
bah... you'll get yours when CA falls into the ocean...

good luck at the games.
Old     (rnopr8)      Join Date: Apr 2005       03-25-2009, 8:53 PM Reply   
LOL...and it will someday!!!Thanks!!

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