Lifestyle
If you don’t know how to beat the heat this August… why not try canoeing down the Sella River? It’s a fun, international activity that also features a version for people with disabilities. Save the date: 2nd August in Asturias. Are you going to miss it?
Getting around a city, whether large or small, when you have a physical disability and you are a wheelchair user can be an arduous task. This article features an interesting video comparing three ways of doing so in Mexico City: with a wheelchair, by car and with a Batec handbike attached to the wheelchair. Which option would you choose?
In May we participated in our first Skarrozzata with the Italian distributor of Batec handbikes, Ottobock Italia. Skarrozzata is a cultural movement that has been held for the past four years on the streets of Bologna and aims to raise awareness of what it means to be in a wheelchair.
Montse (paraplegic, Barcelona) is passionate about theatre, a hobby she got into as a result of the accident that left her in a wheelchair and that she considers a therapeutic, liberating exercise. Plus, she’s the person behind telephone customer care at Batec Mobility.
Fran (tetraplegic, Jerez), Miguel (paraplegic, Barcelona) and Andrés (paraplegic, Baena) made it through the 100 kilometres of Trailwalker 2015 with their wheelchairs and Batec handbikes in 22 hours and 50 minutes. For all three of them, the experience was exciting, very difficult and, above all, unique in terms of team spirit.
Francisco Zuasti (tetraplegic) is participating in TRAILWALKER 2015 on 18 and 19 April, covering the 100 kilometers between Olot and Sant Feliu de Guixols with our BATEC QUAD HYBRID add-on handbike. The challenge: to do it in under 32 hours.