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Testimonials
Millennium Product status :- was awarded in Autumn
1998 by the UK Design Council to one form of these
exceptional patented stabilisers.
This Balance Trainer form was designed for all
children.
It featured on BBC Televisions "Tomorrows World"
programme for exciting new innovations. Other forms are
mainly for those with disabilities. They have been widely
recommended, in many publications for the disabled and by
many occupational therapists and physiotherapists in the UK.
The following are quotes from important and reputable
organisations and satisfied customers :-
"We have tried the stabilisers with other physically and/
or mentally handicapped children who have been struggling to
learn this skill, with very good results. I think they are
an excellent piece of equipment and recommend them to staff
and parents."
Physiotherapy Magazine.
"Many of the items selected" (including Balance Trainers)
"have managed to solve problems that have only been half
solved before..... The journey from trike to bike is a fine
balancing act - another Millennium Product eases the route
with an incredibly simple idea - the adjustable bicycle
stabilisers or Balance Trainers"
Tomorrows World - BBC TV
Innovations Programme.
''These robust bicycle stabilisers can be adjusted
sideways to vary the amount of support provided so that the
person can learn to balance gradually.....The
Adjustabilisers are straightforward to fit using the clear
instructions provided "
Sport and Leisure - an
Equipment Handbook published by the Disability Information
Trust
"They (Stabilisers) have been so successful with the
children to whom I've recommended them. It's been wonderful
to know they can enjoy riding a bike like everyone else!
Your son must feel very fulfilled to see how many other
children have benefited."
Jean Gibb, Advisory
Teacher for Physically Impaired Pupils.
"Your stabilisers have been very useful for dyspraxic
children to learn to cycle."
Adol Hartweld Senior
Physiotherapist
"...we had them (large stabilisers) fitted to Laura's
bike. Laura has a right-sided hemiplegia and her balance is
quite badly affected. We had a brilliant holiday at
Centrepark and Laura kept up and overtook several people on
their bikes. Thank you for your wonderful invention."
Julie S. Essex
(parent)
" We felt we had
to write and tell you how successful the adjustabilisers
have been for our children. Paul has mild cerebral palsy so
he has found it very difficult to get his balance on the
bike. We have tried for intermittent periods over 3 years to
get him to ride without stablisers. Within 8 weeks of using
the adjustabilisers he...gained so much confidence that he
actually asked for them to be removed. you can imagine how
happy we all were, even the neighbours came out and cheered.
We then put them on our younger son's bicycle. He has no
physical disabilities only lacked confidence. He was to ride
without adjustabilisers after just 3 weeks. Looking at them
now, it's hard to believe that they have not been playing
around on bicycles for years. As far as we are concerned the
adjustabilisers have performed miracles particularly in
Pauls' case."
John and Jackie T.
Hampshire (parents)
"Just writing to let you know how Jessica is getting on
with her adjustabilisers. They are absolutely brilliant!"
Melissa H.
Norfolk (parent)
"The whole process (Balance trainer assisted balance
learning) took less than 2 weeks. I didn't have to run along
holding the back of the saddle. The Balance Trainers were
therefore particularly suitable for parents like me with bad
backs" The Balance Trainers were simple, logical and
excellent and I was very pleased."
Mrs Cherie
C. Northumberland
" Dear David Good
I would personally like to thank you and your company
Good Designs for giving me the ability to ride a bicycle
since the age of 12. I had tried for five years to learn to
ride a bike but because of my hemiplegia I struggled. I
found and still find to a certain degree sports and
activities that involve good balance difficult. Each and
every time I tried again in my efforts proved unsuccessful.
But with the aid of your stabiliser design I am pleased to
say that I am now able to ride a bicycle, this enables me to
visit friends, view beautiful scenery and exercise outdoors.
Before I learnt to ride I felt angry with myself, all the
other children could ride a bicycle but I couldn’t, I missed
out on lots of interesting games and opportunities to
explore my local surroundings. I wish I could of joined in.
When I moved to Hertfordshire and started Senior School
my friends lived further away than what they had previously
in London. Some people lived a few miles away and I had to
walk everywhere, making the journeys quite long because I
walk rather slowly due to my disability. I felt somewhat
secluded with many of my friends too far away for me to
visit. I was so unhappy that my Mum suggested that I try to
learn to ride a bike but we couldn’t find stabilisers
suitably strong enough to support my weight until the local
hospital suggested you.
The stabilisers you designed gave me the chance of riding
a bike something that I had wanted to do ever since I was
seven. I had watched two of my younger sisters ride their
bikes and felt unhappy that I couldn’t join them.
The ability to ride a bike is important; it gets me out
the house and I exercise while I'm having fun. Learning to
ride has strengthened the muscles in my legs and makes me
feel better about myself. Riding a bike has also helped in a
number of sports where co-ordination and balance is
required. What's more I proved people wrong I did the
"impossible", I completed one of the biggest challenges in
my life and succeeded.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ride a bike
and thanks for giving me a better quality of life."
15 year old
hemiplegic girl living in Hertfordshire, England
"Dear Mr Good
Following on from our telephone conversation. I wanted to
drop you a line to thank you for your helpful advice both in
purchasing and using your cleverly designed stabilisers. Our
son is diagnosed with dyspraxic tendencies which means he
has problems with motorskills, particularly co-ordination
and balance. As a result learning to ride a bicycle has been
a major challenge.
The key for us in using the stabilisers was that we could –
with his knowledge and consent – reduce the width of balance
aid provided, and the height of the stabilisers, by tiny
increments. This way he built his confidence slowly (very
slowly – over 6 months) but surely. Finally, on this weekend
just past, he realised he was pedalling along and not
hearing the stabilisers’ wheels touch the ground and at last
agreed we could remove them. With that, he was off and spent
a hugely enjoyable afternoon riding his bike!
I
really don’t think he would have achieved this without the
gradual approach we were able to take with your stabilisers,
and we – and, of course, he are tremendously grateful to you
for your help in this.
I
would thoroughly recommend the stabilisers to anyone whose
child has dyspraxia, and who is experiencing problems in
riding a bike.
I
have sent an e-mail to the Dyspraxia Foundation, and to our
local group co-ordinator to confirm how helpful we have
found the stabilisers.
Many thanks again.
Yours sincerely"
Mrs K. S.
Plymouth
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