I live on kind of rough desert land in Arizona, and have now been without the use of my legs for 2 1/2 years. The man next door gave me a 3 wheeled scooter machine for me to use. It has dumpted me so many times only 911 knows how many. At least 15!! After it dumps me it lays on top of me and drops its two batteries out on top of me to.
I am looking for some sort of a small ATV with hand controls and brakes. A little bigger than the kids use. Does anybody know of such a thing. I does not have to be electric like the jobber my neighbor gave me. I would like to be able to drive around and feed the animals and such so that my wife does not have so much work when she gets home from workl
Your help and time is appreciated


para boy

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Para boy

How's your upper body strength?. Can you climb up and down into a Rhino or similar vehicle?. Do you need to carry your wheelchair with you?. I have cerebral palsy, and use a cane and a walker; so I need to carry mine.

If you can pull yourself up into one, I would look at a Kawasaki Mule or John Deere Gator. They both have bench seats and cargo boxes, have a top speed of 25 mph, are very reliable, and impossible to tip over. They also have steering wheels, CVT auto transmissions, and foot brake and throttle; so fitting hand controls would be easy.

If you want an atv type vehicle, look at Arctic Cat. They have their TBX models, which has a tilt cargo bed; CVT transmission, and hand throttle and brake like your three wheeler. The TBX's have been dropped for '08, but there are plenty of '07's around. For '08 they have the cargo box available across their atv line using their SpeedRack system, but it doesn't tilt.

Happy Shopping!

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My Avatar has more hair than I do.

They (atvs) pretty much have hand controls and brakes. Stick with the major manufacturers and you'll probably be OK with any of them. As HL mentioned; the UTVs would be ideal; as you'd be able to sidle right on up to anything you needed to work on without gettting off or leaning over quite as much (possibly).

Best of luck on your search.

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Forming a "Long Range Financial Subcommittee" in MI.:
Take two inexplicably expired term motorcycle reps. still serving on the board (one names yet another motorcycle rep)
Add 1 full-size and but 1 atv rep.
Arrogantly claim that the entire process should be finished in 4 conference calls with absolutely no public involvement or any meeting minutes recorded.
Result?
No complaint whatsoever from sheep-like atv clubs with literally tens of millions in play.

you can get a manual atv, and get a hand shifter that attaches to the foot shifter lever. cabelas carries them alnog with a bunch of other places, or you can make one it's simple. you can weld one, or you can take two wire coat hangers, bend them so they,re straight, wrap one end of each to the other, and take one end, and wrap atound the shifter tight so it stands up, and bend the other end into a handle and your set. good luck with you're search

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2008 Yamaha Grizzly 700 fi with eps by this time next year
1998 Yamaha Warrior 350 (traded, but not forgotten)
1988 Honda 300 4X4