Segway's are on sale at Amazon!!!

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: Jhill
Just what we need. Less excercise for Americans.

Werd to that.

 

[SCSIfreek]

can fat people be balanced on this thing? Even worst can they fit on it? hahahha.... there aint no seat on this segway.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Jhill
Just what we need. Less excercise for Americans.

SEGWAY TO SPREAD HEFTY AMERICAN LOOK!

This marks the first time in history that 2 discrete SatireWire articles have been applicable to a single thread.

May she rest in peace.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

I thought these were going to be sold for $3K when they were released...

 

[klah]

Sue-It.com: Lawyers Against The Segway HT by DEKA

 

[Packy]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
I'm amazed that 31 states have passed laws allowing you to ride those things on the sidewalk. It's not like the Segway is a conveyance for disabled people or the elderly or anything. No way should a vehicle that goes 12 mph be allowed on sidewalks. I can't wait for people to mod theirs to make em go 50 tho

Okay, THEN you'd need the helmet... and leather pants and jacket... and elbow pads... and gloves...

err... why would someone buy one again? Get a motorcycle and look MUCH cooler And you get to SIT DOWN!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: flenn
It's obvious that their "vision" for this product has already failed. I remember seeing a news magazine show a couple years ago and the owner/inventor insisted that the product wouldn't be sold to the retail public until after they had large OEM, state and municipal contracts. They thought that it would take a few years before they could fulfill the demand to these entities before they could actually sell them to the public. And now they're on Amazon...hehe!

That news show could only have been about a year ago, when the Segway was unveiled.
They have those contracts, with the US Postal Service, General Electric, the City of Atlanta, and the National Parks Service.
This current pre-sale on Amazon, with orders to be fulfilled starting 3/03, is according to the inventor's original timeline and plan.

While I have no use for the Segway and won't be buying one anytime soon, I'm still surprised to see that I am about the only one who thinks it's a pretty cool invention, or that so many people are so against it. Oh well... idiots abound

 

[ultimatebob]

I could see thing being useful if you needed to constantly walk or ride from one side of a large facility to another, like a patrolling security guy at a college campus or a big factory. Mail and package delivery folks would also probably kill for something like this.

 

[klah]

If one of those devices so much as brushes up against me, I am suing the operator and DEKA for ONE BILLION DOLLARS. :Q

 

[KMurphy]

I would have to be insane to ride that thing. You would look like such a RETARD on it.....lol

Did they edit that pic already? The head and shoulders have been air brushed out.

 

[Eli]

LOL!

They're kinda cool, just cause they can't really fall over.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Eli
LOL!

They're kinda cool, just cause they can't really fall over.

Didn't you read the story I posted earlier??

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0502/03segway.html

 

[BooneRebel]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: Eli
LOL!

They're kinda cool, just cause they can't really fall over.

Didn't you read the story I posted earlier??

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0502/03segway.html

From that same article:

Ten more of the machines were purchased for $9,000 each

Can you say ouch? Too bad they don't offer a BVG program.

$9000 in April
$5000 in November

What will they be going for in garage sales next summer?

 

[Rudee]

Segway = Birth Control on wheels

 

[Ciber]

Damn bastards edited the pic..........

 

[m2kewl]

$5k? crazy!! i wonder what the segway would do if Shaq stood on it...probably tell him to lose weight! hehe.

 

[Maetryx]

I hope they put then in the expansion for GTA.

 

[flot]

So oddly, the other night I was stumbling around half drunk with some friends... and we had been walking and walking and walking.. and I was like "You know what we need? We need some of those ginger IT things..."

....and 2 minutes later, some guy scoots past on one...

Bizarro.

So then I got all excited, closed my eyes and looked up in the sky and said "What we need is a bus full of drunk sorority girls" - but I guess a trick like that only works once. :-(

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: Ciber
Damn bastards edited the pic..........

LMAO, i cant believe they did that.

 

[Yzzim]

I work at a fairly large factory and I think a Segway would be perfect for the supervisors, office people, and general matinence people who need to walk from one side of the plant to the other almost hourly. They're safe, don't pollute, a bit faster than walking, and pretty easy to use.
Once the price comes down a bit I could see this things, or something like them, being used quite frequently by many people.

 

[OutHouse]

Six of the 65-pound Segway scooters were lent to the Atlanta police for 60 days in late April by the company that are promoting them. Ten more of the machines were purchased for $9,000 each by the city's Ambassador Force, Central Atlanta Progress and Georgia Power, according to Atlanta Regional Commission spokeswoman Julie Ralston.

Is the "ambassador Force" a city government agency?

If it is and the city shelled out 90K somebody needs to get fired.

 

[puffpio]

anyone have the original?

 

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: Lucky

Originally posted by: Ciber
Damn bastards edited the pic..........

LMAO, i cant believe they did that.

Okay which one of you AT lurkers works for that Kamen guy?!

 

[MaxDSP]

damnit, nobody saved the pic? I was wondering why it was so funny...its just a torso and legs on a scooter

 

[Pliablemoose]

Gotta admit, I want one, but they're not legal in Texas, there's a list of states that have passed laws on the site...

Maybe I'd look cooler if I wrote "DORK" in magic marker on the helmet...