Hello

I have decided that i want to sell mobilityright.co.uk as i have less time available, as you can see i haven’t written and published a post for it since august, rather than leave it for too long i feel it is better to pass it on to someone who has the time to keep it updated.

I have enjoyed writing for the blog since i started it in 2008, it is well established and it would be nice to see someone carry it on, hopefully improving it too.

The sale will include the domain and the blog, i have it hosted on a UK based server (shared hosting) i highly recommend keeping it on a UK server although that’s up to you, the sale of the blog wont include the hosting so if you buy it you will need to sort that out.

I’m open to offers so if you’re interested please contact me

This post can be easily deleted of course once the blog is sold.

If you have any questions about the blog please feel free to ask.

Thanks

John

Question:

My DMA Strider mini 3 new batteries but does not run smoothly just the hint of stop start hardly noticeable at all speeds on the reostat and on smooth shopping malls flooring any suggestions please?

Philip

I saw that someone had recently searched for “a trailer with child seat for mobility scooter” and at first i was thinking that they might be thinking of something else, but i do think that the person who has searched for this has literally been looking for a trailer that can be attached to a mobility scooter that they could then have a child seated in to tow along with them.

If that is the case then i think this is where you need to stop and think for a moment and to remind yourself of what a mobility scooter is intended for, i think that its a bad idea to try transporting anyone other than yourself on your mobility scooter but also they are not designed to start performing allsorts of jobs.

Some are intended for more heavy duty use, whereas some are more suited to lightwieight use like taking them around the supermarket, sure you can carry some light shopping on them and there are plenty of accessories available to help you transport your crutches or walking stick and other manageable items as these are intended to assist you further if needed when not on your mobility scooter of course but trying to make a mobility scooter do a wide range of tasks that it was not built for is generally a bad idea.

Just in the same way that any other mode of transport will experience problems sooner if you use it incorrectly, so too will a mobility scooter if you expect too much from it and try to use it in a way that was not intended by the manufacturer.

You will probably be paying out more often for repairs and spare parts too and there is a greater risk of doing more serious damage to your mobility scooter and yourself if you choose to use it other than what it was built for.

If you need to transport more than a few items and yourself and possibly for a longer distance than normal then it is worth considering whether the mobility scooter is the right choice for those types of journeys and that it might be better to arrange for a vehicle to take you on your journey, this doesn’t mean that you have to be without a mobility scooter for a particular journey but its important that you have the right type of assistance for at least the part of the journey that might become difficult to manage with the use of a mobility scooter only.