Alpha Male Manley Lectures: The Day I Got To Know Motorsports

"Oh frickety frack!" as Dr. Sheldon Cooper sometimes laments on Big Bang Theory. I know how that feels, and when I first got into go-karting, I often found myself saying aloud, "Frickety frack...I've crashed again!"

Hitting a side barrier's not that big of a deal, however. Here's what is: track timing. When it comes to elapsed time, I consider my own to be horrible. But then, look what me and a lot of my disabled, racing enthusiast buddies are up against.

But if you follow me online, then you already know that I've been to Balboa Park in Lake Balboa, California. It was there that I felt that itch for retrofitting things, that which Mr. Shelby himself must've once felt. Those visits happened recently, but here's what I found out during those tests: able-bodied and challenged kart racers were in need of power-assisted steering.

For me, that didn't translate to making a posh car build out of a go-kart; it meant building at least one or two Electro Karts for the track, that were built with the same, power-assisted consoles that many electric wheelchairs were already using.

As usual, it's easy in theory, but not practice. But since we can't build anything right away, here are the statistics. Driving one of OTL's Elektro Karts at MB2 Raceway in Sylmar, California, I was able to run a best E/T of about 28.1 seconds. This is with the knowledge that MB2 takes-up a quarter-mile of space, and with the kart running optimally.

On my C500 power chair, I was able to pull-off a track time of around 1:32:87, and this was with a top speed of 5.1 miles per hour, so one sees how performance truly is a relative thing.

Does that mean that I'm lacking in performance? Could be, but that wasn't really the point. Here's what it is: speed costs money, a lot of MB2's racers are physically-challenged, but what all of them cannot afford, is to be excluded from motorsports.

In one sentence...take Permobil's "R-Net" console, take the "J-Series" console from EMC...take any of those pieces of adaptive equipment and bolt that on to an Elektro Kart. Whether new or used, adapting an OTL go-kart, in the way of assistive consoles, will open a new market for disabled motor enthusiasts.

Alpha Male "Manley" Lectures: What Is Inter-Dimensional Travel?!

In one word: "Wi-Fi." Here's why I use that: Resonant frequency is a real science. Plants, animals and humans produce resonant frequencies, and in varying degrees. When you hook-up your WiFi gateway, what are you accomplishing? Our minds, our bodies produce a resonant frequency field; a wireless gateway produces a resonant field, and your smart device grabs-on to that energy.

With inter-dimensional transit or travel, my experience is that you're essentially shifting from one WiFi network, or grab point to the next. Sure, you're still logging on to the same internet, but with a different passcode and network. Once that happens, your device's bandwidth changes, sometimes there's even a change of interface, or content.

I could be wrong, because I'm not Buddhist or New Age, but look at the science; what is it showing us, when resonant frequency, in and of itself, is manifesting thought and emotion on to the most chaotic of backdrops?! Let's face it: the Tesla science behind inter-dimensional travel, the science behind the dimensions themselves, need be investigated further!

Alpha Male Manley Blogs, Vol. II: The Number One Reason Why A Wheelchair Can Never Be A Muscle Car!!!

There was a Classical Greek parable, in which a son tried to drive his father's chariot, and in the clouds. Here's the twist: By taking on his dad's "car," he simultaneously assumed his fate. That being the chariot itself being driven out of control.

Here's what a muscle car does: gets you from A to B like anything else? True, however my Permobil C500 can do that. Does it need a HEMI? No, because what I drive is a powered wheelchair, not a "Dart!" It gets me to commute, and safely.

But in one shot, I just have to establish that argument of "feeling." I want something different than what a lot of my readers may want, but guys, in a sentence: Why aren't the power chair manufacturers, like Permobil, thinking about the muscle car enthusiast?!

Here's how: concentrate on sensations. I want to feel the "V8," I want to feel the "muscle car." You look again to Permobil...their job is not to be a custom hot rod place. But couldn't the market, as a whole, take more extensive use of 2016 technology to build a power chair for the car enthusiast, who just so happens to be physically-challenged?!

For this, I think that the best technological advances include solenoid V-Type engines, DC electric motors off of MB2 and other go-karts. Anything that's electric, adjustable...and in one line, is able to produce RPM for performance or sustainability.

You couple that together with a solid body-and-bumper, crunch that whole kit down enough to fit on a power chair, see what happens. Guaranteed you'll have a proven product, because disabled car enthusiasts have been around muscle, and just as long as the Mecum crowd has.

Alpha Male Manly Lectures: The Top 5 Inventions From Automotive That Never Made It To The Power Chair Market...

I am a poet, and so my job here is to teach, as well as to entertain. That's a thought molecule that was muttered often during the European Renaissance, and it's one that still makes sense...so I will try my very best.

During a process in which I had been collecting raw materials off of my powered wheelchair, there were a few quirks that I had wished to leave off of my "parts list." However, the more that I tested and looked into it, the more that I found that what I thought was luxury was actually necessity.

In one shot, consequently, I've decided to not only throw-together a list of items that I think should be incorporated into the power chair market, but I think it's appropriate, at this point, to boil this list down. It's equally important to synthesize, or break-down just how each part/accessory would work to improve the powered wheelchair platform, and all the way across the board.

Retractable Roof/Hardtop:

This is all going to kind of tie-together as it unfolds, but a retractable roof or hardtop, for me, does a lot more than just add a certain "style sense" to the vehicle. As a consumer, I can't ever truly promise that people with disabilities will never go out into the sleet or snow. In all sincerity, it just happens, and what solution is there when the challenged commuter needs to protect his/herself from nature?!

Waterproof Electronics:

Why is it that Tesla Motors has been smart enough, clever enough to build an airtight space frame around the "Model S," and yet from the 1980s continuing into my college years, the early-2000 era, all too many a powered wheelchair has gone "Exorcist" in the rain?!

Speaking of, let's talk about the early era of wheelchair motoring, for me and a lot of my generation, the early 1990s. Remember the old, Sicilian grandmother from Golden Girls? Here we go: Southern California...1992! It was 101 degrees in Northridge, You Can't Do That On Television was beaming on Nickelodeon from Canada, and I was on my way to elementary school!

Oops, it starts raining, and not only raining kids, but pouring, as "El Nino" had manifested more than once in the West Coast vocabulary. All-in-all, chair shorts out, starts driving itself...nearly runs itself off of a curb, en route to the bowling alley, grade school...wherever! So yeah, light-up sneakers and pogs may have been cool growing-up, but airtight accessories on the power chair would have just been downright functional!

Bumpers:

Yeah, I'm talking from front-to-rear! Not only that, but with certainty, because when you look at all of the scratches/scuff marks that I've accumulated, not only on my Permobil but on any power chair, it just resonates a pattern that's continuing, and it shouldn't be!

Undercarriage guard plates:

Again, how silly is it that anyone should have to spell this out online?! Just like with front-to-rear bumpers, you're not bolting stuff like that on to a power chair to look good but to function!

I don't care if I get laid in my power wheelchair; even the insurance providers will tell you that Permobils and others are built strictly for mobility purposes! So what does a guard plate achieve? In one sentence, take a plate made out of sheet metal, diamond plate or whatever, and stick that object on to the bottom, or "undercarriage," of a wheelchair. First, it keeps natural elements, like rocks and gravel, from slipping into the chair's running gear.

Also, like the front-to-rear bumpers mentioned before, having guard plates bolted underneath the wheelchair's frame adds a sense of structural rigidity to that frame. So I agree with this whole "safe mobility" concept that me, along with an engineer friend, had recently discussed in Reno, Nevada: It's not important to go fast and be a manwhore, but it's absolutely necessary to sustain and be a gentleman!

Onboard navigation/GPS:

Um...yeah! I don't know what to tell everyone, but we're living in a "smart phone" era! That means that the Web dictates a lot of things that we do today, but it also means that our devices that were separated, 10-15 years ago, have now become very much integrated into one piece!

GPS, especially when it's onboard, is one of Western Society's most useful gadgets. And I don't necessarily think that it's a "disabled" thing, but for myself, I have a terrible sense of freakin' direction, and I've heard my dad make the same complaint in the past!

Here's what it boils-down to: Permobil and other premium power wheelchairs feature extension arms and similar accessories that bolt on to the vehicle's main drive console. Within that small space frame, bolt on a smart phone or tablet with GPS, a GPS device by itself or both!