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Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington
TacticalJack writes "Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports. It took the Segway riders two and half hours to complete the 7.6 mile endurance test. The team used six batteries, fought off 50 mph winds and battled bitter cold to reach the 6,288-foot mountain summit. All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?"
He asked why. On a segway article. I'm at a loss for words.
What happened to the standard geek, 'How?'
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I had to ride my segway to school uphill in the snow without TIRES! gosh darn young wippersnappers - no respect at all!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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For how much they cost they should make pancakes, serve them to you in bed, have an included coffee maker, come with several gigs of mad lesbian pr0n, and have a small kitchen sink in-dash
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Personally, I think a slightly more literal interpretation of this headline would be a lot more hilarious/interesting than the real story.
Stoned Segway Rider: "Whoah man....like, I lean and it moves and I don't fall over.....I wish I could do that on my own....."
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Hey, if they're not going to redesign cities around the Segway, maybe now they'll redesign mountains around them...
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Ah, if only that damn clown would retire... One can but hope, I guess.
You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
Oh yeah, Segway, that's the other now dead fad that was missing from yesterday's Dotcom Era Fads story on Slashdot :-)
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"All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?"
No, it begs the question "What the heck is this doing on the front page?" I can see how the Segway was at one point an interesting piece of technology when it first came out, but that was a long time ago. It's less "technology" and more "silly fad." I would sooner expect an article about who is going to win such-and-such "reality TV" show than this on Slashdot. What next, world's larget pet rock collection?
Heck, if anything the Segway is a shining example on exactly why the bottom fell out of the 90's IT economy. And the fact that mention of it still makes headlines in Slashdot demonstrates that people in the 21st century are still just as gullible and short-sighted as they were ten years ago.
I want mine lowered first.
Because only a clown would ride the segway without being snickered at.
Would he have done better time in a monocycle? Or a tiny VW with other twenty seven clowns? Now *those* questions should be answered!
Note: I like clowns. A great deal better than I like mimes, at least.
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7.6 miles at 12.5 MPH would take ~37 minutes. Are you suggesting they spent 4 times as much time lunching, resting, pissing, and falling over as they did riding?
And another thing, what would they possibly need rest from? All that strenuous leaning forward?
Or maybe a clown hoping his post on slashdot will impress a girl.
they were 3 people.
their combined speed was 12.5 MPH.
Hence about 4.2MPH each.
2.5 hours, but at least 5*10=50 minutes changing batteries, so 1.6 hours
so 4.2MPH * 1.6Hrs = 6.7 miles.
So why 7.6 miles? someone switched the digits!
You could always take the simple road and get yourself the "go-faster" speed stripes favoured by drivers of preludes, or alternately paint it red, because red cars go faster.
Geeks, already used to chipping their playstations will take with glee to the project of modding segways for speed.
Wait for the segway case mods to come into vogue at lan parties
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Speaking of this - anybody working on porting Linux to the segway? Would enable all kinds of neat stuff - like wireless networking, built-in VoIP soft phone and IM client.
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a decent used car and the tank of gas
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Or.......
A nice used motorcycle that can go way faster than 12.5 mph!
Nope, don't know the guy, just getting an example...
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The world's first Segway tractor pull. Possibly. Though I can't help but feel that any Segway could be decimated by even the weediest competitor off Robot Wars.
What you call foothills the people on the east cost call mountains. I noticed this perspective diffrence between the east and west cost a long time ago. Not that the east cost doesn't have a mountain range, they are NOT the Rockies.
But hey, since you live in a place with much more in the way of impressive peaks, why don't *you* get your own segway and test to see how well it works in your enviroment.
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Great point fellow New Englander, but you forgot to point out one other fact. Mt. Washington holds the hishest wind speed record at 231 mph with common speeds of around 75+ mph. I know what your thinking, and yes, "it's wicked fast."
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