OT?<grin> You wrote: There are even profitable aftermarket industries dedicated to souping up the OEM units. THAT intrigues me.
Can you lay some industry "classified ads"/URLs, trade rag names or something? I'd like to research this further but don't live in the Senior Center/Sun Belt."
However, moving from the flat Kansas plains to the hills of Oregon and the undulating metropolis of Portland Oregon's 1.3 mil inhabitants in a tri-county mishmash, I was very surprised to find motorized wheelchairs "normal" on city streets...they can use bike lanes, but sometimes they don't, they are just there, in the street on the driver's right-curb lane, toodlin' along. In all the time I've lived out here, I've never once heard of a fatality nor an injury involving a vehicle and one of those motorized 4 wheelers.
Since not much snow falls in PDX, it's pretty much a 24-7-365 conveyance out this way for those needing that mobility assist.
I've wondered if golf carts won't some day whiz along the same lanes, so I'd like to investigate some of the aftermarket mod referrals you made.
I'll even provide snail mail address and cough up postage to see some of the old coffee table/waiting room mags dealing with creativeness in this genre'. Rational self-interest being what it is, now that I'm over 49 <g> Other than my health failing, I think my greatest fear as a "maturing adult" is loss of mobiilty which I equate with loss of independence...YUCK
Yes, wheels are turning...gotta have a little fun in life, yes?
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