Coupled bicycles for disabled and able-bodied to ride together
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Coupled bicycles for disabled and able-bodied to ride together.
The present note describes a very simple and economic, yet highly successful, concept which makes use of two standard bicycles and should prove useful in developing countries.
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عنوان ژورنال: Prosthetics & Orthotics International
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0309-3646
DOI: 10.3109/03093648609164509