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Segway Climbs to New England's Tallest Mountain Peak [with 6 sets of Batteries]
CNN ^
| August 28, 2003
| wire report
Posted on 08/28/2003 8:46:25 AM PDT by prarie earth
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: prarie earth
Are these the new mountain climbing cloths?
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:48:50 AM PDT
by
duckman
To: duckman
How about a 'Tour De France' for Segways!
To: duckman
3 miles an hour?? I think a brisk walk or a mountain bike would be healthier.
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:51:30 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: prarie earth
Wearing a bowtie while driving a Segway should be mandatory.
To: prarie earth
...was the first Segway to make it to the top of the 6,288 foot mountain in 7.6 miles.I don't understand that part of the sentence. Is the road 7.6 miles long? I also wonder who paints the yellow stripes on their roads. Maybe the altitude got to them on that last stretch.
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:52:09 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: prarie earth
This "story" is very silly. 6 changes of batteries?
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:55:10 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: prarie earth
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:55:11 AM PDT
by
discostu
(just a tuna sandwich from another catering service)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
This could definitely become a fad sport.
Mountain climbing on scooters at the next X-Games! The only catch is that you have to carry 6 batteries with you
To: FreePaul
Probably a lot of switchbacks on the road going up the mountain top.
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:55:52 AM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
To: prarie earth
60 Minutes II reaired last night a Dan Rather interview with Dean Kamen. He is working on a Sterling Engine way of providing distilled water to parts of the world where safe water is scarce. He also is marketing the Segway to Europe where the population density is greater and where they already have trails and other accomodations that would make integrating the Segway easy.
To: FreePaul
Maybe there are different routes to the top of the mountain?
To: duckman
The drive clutching system in that thing is ripped off copy of Kirby's really cool forwards/backwards self propelled vacum cleaner. That drive system (made in Germany) was brilliant and simple. It even is actuated the same by the upright handle on the scooter. The weight shift for forward/neutral/backwards is the same too. I'm waiting for the patent infringement case. That is unless Kirby was too stooopid to expand their claims to cover the drive mechanism in items other than vacum cleaners. Which knowing Kirby is quite likely.
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:56:56 AM PDT
by
blackdog
("Take the time to taste every sandwich" -Warren Zevon, 2002)
To: prarie earth
The system is fun to ride and surprisingly stable. It can handle rather rough terrain and I believe there is a version that climbs steps.
Russ
To: FreePaul
The road is 7.6 miles from base to the top. The yellow lin is the MIDDLE of the road and the road is VERY narrow, very steep, and with no guard rails. My wife tried to drive up it a couple of years ago and chickened out halfway up.
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posted on
08/28/2003 8:58:18 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: GraniteStateConservative
I would think that the battery would be able to go longer with less weight on the device, kind of like jockeys in Horse Racing?
To: kinsman redeemer
How about going down mountains, any brakes that work on these things?
To: prarie earth
The truck behind him is carrying all the batteries, and a rubber suit for guy in the bow tie.....
To: prarie earth
Must double as a time machine.
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posted on
08/28/2003 9:03:44 AM PDT
by
scott7278
("If I'm not back by dawn -- call the president.")
To: prarie earth
How about going down mountains, any brakes that work on these things?The trip down took no batteries and was completed in thirteen and a half minutes.
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