New attachment day! (V3 plus "lane assist" review)
I got my v3 plus yesterday and did a 13 kilometres test run on different terrain with it today! (Like 8 miles, for the Americans)
I asked about it on here some months ago and promised to review it if I ended up getting it, so here is that review.
The main goal of the attachment is the "lane assist", meaning it holds your lane on side leaning pavement and uneven terrain by locking the front wheel in a straight position, allowing you to steer with the Handel. Once I got used to this (it is incredibly different to normal wheelchair use) It did this job exceptionally well.
It has two "modes" essentially - lane assist and free movement - that can be changed by moving one small screw like bit. I found myself mostly using the lane assist mode, since it allows you to go around corners without needing to break to turn, if that makes sense, saving a hell of a lot of energy and speed. Also all the streets here are crooked anyways. It was so freeing to just go straight on side leaning streets without putting in the extra work and also keeping speed around corners! The only situations in which I used the free mode, which essentially makes it feel like a freewheel/rgk wheel, was on steep inclines, since I felt that the lane assist made it more difficult to get up them somehow?
I had the freewheel before this and this is what I wanted the freewheel to be, if that makes sense. It's twice the price of the freewheel tho, which is a down side.
I have never been able to go this fast, smooth, and comfortably anywhere outdoorsy before. It handled all terrain well, at least the ones that I tried (grass, cobble stone, forest ground, small stones)
The handle is freely adjustable in length and angle, took me some time to find the right position but I did it eventually.
I haven't found anything that I mind with the attachment itself yet, other than the fact that the breaks where way to tight when it got deliverd, but adjusting them was fairly easy and it came with tools for the set-up process anyway.
It also has a much bigger turning circle than the rgk wheel, but it's a minus I'm very willing to live with. It's about twice as heavy as the freewheel I'd say, but I didn't find it harder to push. Also gets a lot of attention, I was stopped twice on my way - once by some older people who had questions and once by kids who thought it "looked super cool" :)