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When asked to connect sports with disability, many people think of athletic competitions such as wheelchair races. They also focus on individual heroes, such as Canadian quadriplegic Jim Milina climbing Mount Kilimanjaro six years ago.

For the millions of rank-and-file Americans who combat disability, however, the basic desire is for simple non-competitive exercise. Among the most popular outlets of the past 20 years is handcycling, which goes far beyond the traditional wheelchair by leaps and bounds. Cycles are adapted to provide exercise for a sports and fitness buff with any sort of lower-limb disability: spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis.