BREYDON’s wheelchair trials: Karma Eagle
breydon.id.au/locomote/trials/karma/eagle
Saturday 27 March 2021.
Updated 03 August 2021.
Collapsible (scissor fold), box‐frame chair.
1. Assessment
Emergency hire to get in and out of toilet. Poorly balanced. Blousy castors. Came with non‐standard footplates fitted (presumably for people with much less leg than me), which forced my knees ridiculously high, increasing this chair’s precariousness and causing excruciating pressure.
1.1. Chair tried
| Seat width | 35 cm (14″) |
| Seat length | 40 cm (16″) |
| Chair length | 94 cm |
| Chair width | 56 cm |
| Weight in use | 15·3 kg |
| Frame material | ? |
| Footplates | Dual, folding, plastic |
| Wheel camber | > 0° |
| (positive camber; | |
| further inward at bottom than top!) | |
| Drive wheels (d.w.) | Two, towards rear |
| d.w. rims | aluminium |
| d.w. spokes | steel |
| d.w. hubs | 32‐hole |
| d.w. axles | quick‐release |
| d.w. tyres | 37‐540 (24×1⅜″), nylon pneumatic |
| Push rims | Karma Ergo, plastic |
| Castors | Two, 6×1″, towards front |
| plastic rim/hub/5‐spoke moulding | |
| hospital‐style grey plastic solid tyres | |
| Model number | KM8020 (Karma 8000 Series) |
| Manufactured | November 2019 |