28 January 2004

I drove/rode a Segway...

Those things are cool.

I was downtown for Court, not for me... Some idiot hit the fire hydrant across the street from the house in a stolen minivan. As I was walking back to my car. I saw Mike, the guy on the right, showing his Segway to another guy. Apparently, Mike was on jury duty today. I walked up to take a picture for this blog, and Mike offered me a "test drive." Like I am going to say no! I, of course, asked if it was on in a joking manner; Bush, you are a moron! It felt like I was on a floating platform. He told me how to step on the Segway, then told me "think forward." I started moving forward. He then said "think stop." And my mind just figured it out. Pretty damn cool. It was really easy to manuver. You use your left hand to turn a control grip for left and right manuvering. It was interesting to ride up the handicap ramp. It felt like I was falling forward, but the platform was level. This thing could be great for snowboard training... Yeah, that's the justification for dropping $5000 on a toy...

2 comments:

handrail said...

COOL!!! those things will change humanity and make us all one big gushy love goo...or maybe they will just be too bloody expensive and i'll keep buying $500 jap motos. either way, they are cool. could you bunny hop it?

wb said...

No fvcking way! It was heavy...It would be cool as hell if you could bunny hop down stairs, take it to the local skate park. Segway 180 varial!