Segway Beer Solution

[M@]

Looks like the Segway Beer Solution is closer to reality than we thought:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030828/ap_on_fe_st/segway_mountain&e=1
Segway Climbs New England's Tallest Peak

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. - It took six sets of batteries and three drivers, but a Segway scooter made it to the top of New England's tallest peak.

The scooter climbed Mount Washington's auto road in about two and a half hours Wednesday.


The standup scooter, invented by Manchester's Dean Kamen and manufactured in Bedford, was the first Seway to make it to the top of the 6,288-foot mountain in 7.6 miles.


The average grade is 12 percent, and as much as 18 percent in some places. About a third of the road is unpaved.


The Segway belongs to Heritage New Hampshire, a tourist attraction in Bartlett. The drivers were employees.
You can't make this stuff up. :seqway:

[elwood]

I actually rode one of those around at IT.

That thing was surprisingly fun to ride! I would definitely strap a keg on that thing!!!

[RR]

Kegs are lighter than people, that means the segway can carry it's own batteries....and there's the money to be made hauling the empties out for folks. Charge by weight and keep the deposits too (for out of state brews anyway).

[BladeGirl]

I test rode one a few weeks ago (there was a promotional thing near my office) and it was a blast! Very responsive to body movement in going faster or slower. Don't know how it would do on rocks, though.

The six sets of batteries I guess I can understand if the thing does not have anough juice (getting just over a mile per battery set seems inefficient though) but why three drivers? It needs to carry the driver, the batteries AND the keg. Is the Segway up to the task? Maybe we can get Heritage New Hampshire to give it a go next spring!

-BG

[kfarrar]

Did you catch the part that it took three different riders? Whats that all about.

When I for a climb i've got only one body two legs. No rechargable batteries or someone else to do take over if I'm tired.

Next the'll put four weel tires on the thing and we'll see seques on trails on over NH.

[RR]

There might have been a fight if only one driver got to do the whole trip...shareing is wonderfull.

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[DRPHIDDLEPHOS]

LOL! sharing is wonderful RR!!! :ma: i don't know where you come up with this crazy sh^t but you kill me!!! who would have thought the silliness would some day materialize! where there is a will there is a segway :seqway: !! i am going to wright to the company and see if we can't get some kind of pro-mo going with tuckermans brewing co and segway.... two stellar :map: NH origins that could cause a lot of media buzz!!! one :tmchandshake: washes the :tmchandshake1: :beermug: some day we will have draft beer at the pot, i mean the top! :hojos: :shelters: :lunchrocks: :tucks:

[RR]

I heard on the radio that there's some work being done on a SegwayX model for light duty trail use. I think the TRT is more than they had in mind.

[Jolly J]

Maybe do a covert operation up the SB

[DMC]

Maybe one of these would make it up the trail...

New Wheelchair (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030813/hl_nm/health_johnson_wheelchair_dc_3)

[DRPHIDDLEPHOS]

that chair is great!! i saw something on tv about that chair months ago, good to see it is in its presentation stage, it will help a lot of people!

[M@]

I saw Kamen give a speach while sitting in the chair in it's extedned 2-wheel mode. He did a demo after, had a guy throw a medicine ball to him, and the thing just rolled back an inch or so and never came close to falling over.

[RR]

at 29K, that's gonna be a pricey beer!

[DMC]

M@:
He did a demo after, had a guy throw a medicine ball to him, and the thing just rolled back an inch or so and never came close to falling over. the question I have is...
How did George Bush fall off the thing...?
I never heard of anybody - not even stoned Phisheads - falling off those thing...

[Jolly J]

We could probably rent it for 24-40 bones a pop.

[M@]

Bush forgot to turn it on.

Or: The alternate/conspiracy theory is that Mr. Son of Big Oil was PAID to fall off it, as the device threatens fossil-fuel transportation.

I don't prescribe to any of these theories.