Latest Dreamfit News

March 2006
Darren from Dreamfit has been invited to represent the Western Australian Young Business Network at a workshop in Sydney with Richard Branson on the 7th of March 2006. A big thank you to the University of Western Australia who is sponsoring the cost of travel to Sydney. I can’t believe I get to meet Richard!!

March 2006
Dreamfit is finally moving from the home garage into a commercial premise. As of March 2006  Dreamfit will now be operating from their new workshop located at Unit 4 / 19 Capel Court Bentley. Workshop is currently being been fitted out and we have started moving in!!

February 2006
After almost three years and thousands of hours of research and development, February saw Dreamfit’s hand controlled motorcycle being approved by the Department for Planning and Infrastructure for legal road use. This means HAND CONTROLLED MOTORCYCLES CAN NOW BE MADE AVAILABLE to the public

January 2006
In 2006 Dreamfit will be collaborating with The University of Western Australia to design and build both a hovercraft and a ski boat that will be accessible to people in wheelchairs and others with various disabilities. Contact Dreamfit for more information

December 2005
Dreamfit has started the “DisAbled Recreation Club”. This free non-for-profit club will be holding regular social/recreational gatherings open to people with disabilities, their family, careers and friends and anyone else that’s interested. Dreamfit will support the club by providing access to equipment such as the motorcycles, hovercrafts and ski boats. For more info visit www.disabledrecreation.org.au. Thanks to James Collins for developing and hosting the website and to Joe Rokov with his assistance with the incorporation procedure.

Latest Dreamfit Awards

October 2005
Dreamfit’s Founder Darren Lomman was named the “2005 Australian Young Biomedical Engineer of the Year” whilst attending the 2005 Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine Conference where he presented a paper called “Motorcycling Freedom: A Paraplegics Dream”

July 2005
Darren was successfully selected as one of 15 finalists in the 2005 Nescafe Big Break competition out of almost 5,000 nominees from Australia and New Zealand. Darren was awarded with $5,000 prize money to help cover the costs associated with running Dreamfit.

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December  2006
Dreamfit and the DisAbled Recreation Club are currently in the process of organising a disability focused convention called “Celebration of Ability” to be held at the Perth Convention Centre on December 3rdwhich is the International Day of People with Disabilities.  Thank you to Vertical Events and the Perth Convention Centre for their support. Visit the DisAbled Recreation Club website for further details.

Take care,

Darren Lomman
Dreamfit Founder

A few months ago, I was invited to present a paper at the inaugural Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference that is being hosted in Adelaide, South Australia, at the end of October 2005. The conference is also part of the annual 'Engineering & the Physical Sciences in Medicine Conference.

I am quite excited as it is going to be the first time I've had a paper published. The paper I have prepared is titled Motorcycling Freedom: A Paraplegics Dream. You can view the paper here if you're interested. I welcome any feedback.

Being a student, the paper is in the running to win the Young Biomedical Engineer of the Year Award. This will be a fantastic recognition after spending over two years working on this project. Fingers crossed!!

Thanks goes out to the University of Western Australia who has contributed $1,200 towards the costs involved in attending the conference, so that it can be on display for all to see.

Until next time, take care,

Darren Lomman

I've mentioned it before - I've been meaning to give this website an overhaul with some much needed attention for a while. Unfortunately (or more so fortunately) I've have had so many other exciting things happening, I haven't been able to find the time.

SOLUTION: My web host, James Collins is living up to his promise and has offered to help.

"James prides himself on his high level of Customer Service, always going one step further"

He has very kindly offered to utilize his expertise to develop a professional website for me. I've seen the work in progress and it looks fantastic. It's so much easier to navigate, is full features, there no more broken links or empty pages and there is finally heaps of information and images of the paraplegic motorcycles.

James has told me it will be online in the next week or two so make sure you come back in the near future, to have a look around the NEW SITE!!