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Title: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Hurray Banana on January 12, 2011, 07:54:02 am
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/tron-segway/ (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/tron-segway/)

Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Gray_Area on January 13, 2011, 10:40:24 pm
Very cool.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: koolmoecraig on January 28, 2011, 05:27:12 pm
Yeah as if riding on a stock Segway wasn't douchey enough...
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: DaOld Man on January 28, 2011, 06:55:30 pm
Whats the price of a segway these days?
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Hurray Banana on January 29, 2011, 06:41:31 am
In the UK they start at about £5000.

Don't know how safe they are as the boss of Segway went over a cliff on his and died (not a great advert)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654)
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: danny_galaga on January 29, 2011, 07:32:19 am

Has Shmokes seen this thread?
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: ChadTower on January 31, 2011, 09:33:08 am
In the UK they start at about £5000.

Don't know how safe they are as the boss of Segway went over a cliff on his and died (not a great advert)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654)


Is that a farce?  It has to be.  It's too funny if it isn't.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Hurray Banana on January 31, 2011, 09:36:37 am
In the UK they start at about £5000.

Don't know how safe they are as the boss of Segway went over a cliff on his and died (not a great advert)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654)


Is that a farce?  It has to be.  It's too funny if it isn't.

Definitely true.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: mountain on January 31, 2011, 09:38:17 am
In the UK they start at about £5000.

Don't know how safe they are as the boss of Segway went over a cliff on his and died (not a great advert)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654)


Is that a farce?  It has to be.  It's too funny if it isn't.

Definitely true.

But not too funny.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: ChadTower on January 31, 2011, 09:45:39 am

Maybe it's mean but that's right up there with a guy inventing the catapult and getting flung over a building.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 31, 2011, 10:00:02 am

Maybe it's mean but that's right up there with a guy inventing the catapult and getting flung over a building.
:stupid
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Hurray Banana on January 31, 2011, 11:19:51 am
It is quite sad as he gave up a lot of his money to charities and such.

but I do like this quote from http://www.shuttervoice.com/14480/police-segway-owner%E2%80%99s-death-is-not-suspicious.html (http://www.shuttervoice.com/14480/police-segway-owner%E2%80%99s-death-is-not-suspicious.html)

"...they are not yet legal in streets [in Britain]. Moreover, the death of the owner will only delay the legality of using the vehicle."
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Dartful Dodger on January 31, 2011, 11:38:17 am
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A £10m gift to the foundation earlier this month saw his lifetime charitable donations top £23m.

So the man who invented the Segway riding on his own property accidentally goes off a cliff a month after he makes a donation that's almost half of his lifetime total in charities.

...interesting.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 31, 2011, 11:39:19 am
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A £10m gift to the foundation earlier this month saw his lifetime charitable donations top £23m.

So the man who invented the Segway riding on his own property accidentally goes off a cliff a month after he makes a donation that's almost half of his lifetime total in charities.

...interesting.

He didn't invent it, he bought the Segway company
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: koolmoecraig on January 31, 2011, 04:33:13 pm
Could have been worse.

Imagine having to live through the embarrassment of merely wiping out.

Segway Face-Plant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gGav63_sE#ws)
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: DaOld Man on January 31, 2011, 09:08:07 pm
Its nice seeing girl nerds.

I think I will post that video on facebook.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: ChadTower on February 01, 2011, 10:57:15 am

Looks like vacation rentals.  Around here in some places you can rent Segways for the day and ride around on them drinking like a maniac.  Not a nerd thing so much as a way to get out of waiting for taxis and not have to drive.
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Gray_Area on February 05, 2011, 02:12:32 am
That was a brutal wipeout. She was starting to get radical on it, though. And then she did that 'I'm a little kid, I'm gonna look behind me' sort of thing.....
Title: Re: Tragic Segway Tron cycle
Post by: Havok on February 06, 2011, 11:21:44 pm
No matter how you pimp it, Segways are ghey.