Gela Laghidze grinding at the Center for Independent Living shop in Tbilisi, Georgia

Walkabout Foundation project in Kigali, Rwanda

Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids project

Workers at PT Dharma in Jakarta, Indonesia pose with RoughRider parts. PT Dharma currently has the capacity to manufacture 26,000 RoughRiders annually that are distributed to users throughout the world.

Wheelchair user and local technician, Joe uses his RoughRider for recreational activity in the Philippines.

Laura demonstrates how to crimp the ends of a caster fork tube in a BIG vise in Whirlwind's wheelchair building class at San Francisco State University

RoughRider demonstration in Zambia

Wheelchair user and local technician, Joe uses his RoughRider to take care of the chickens at his home in the Philippines 

Chino has been riding his Whirlwind for over 20 years in Nicaragua

In 2005, Whirlwind made an exploratory visit to the Republic of Georgia and got feedback from local wheelchair riders on one of the first RoughRider prototypes.  Rider feedback is a critical part of the design process and helps ensure that our designs meet the riders' real needs for mobility and usability.

Yotsuki Lee is a skilled wheel builder working at Fundacion Bertha O de Osete in Mexico.

Whirlwind Co-Founder, Ralf Hotchkiss, mastering the sand dunes at Fort Funston in San Francisco, California in the new 2010 RoughRider

Arnulfo Criollo, wheelchair rider and wheelchair builder, adjusts an early Whirlwind kids' chair design in 2006 in Cali, Colombia for Maicol.

Serafin is photographed riding quickly over uneven terrain in his 2007 RoughRider in Mindanao, Philippines.

Wheelchair side frame welding jig training in Tbilisi, Georgia.