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?"

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[patman600]

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Re:Mt. Washington Auto Race(hillclimb)

[SuperBanana]

LeMans? Racing? I own a 92 LeMans HB, that POS couldn't win a race against a metro.

Yeah, Pontiac has a habit for naming cars which are complete pieces of shit after famous races; it's an insult of the deepest kind to some truly great events, since Pontiac, for the last couple of decades, wouldn't have known perfomance if it bit them on the ass(everything after the mid-60's GTO was just downhill, sorry). I know you're making a joke :-), but for those who are interested:
http://www.americanlemans.com/
http://www.lemans.org/2003/24auto/index_gb.shtml

(by the way, the top 4 finishes at LeMans were all Audi cars; the Bentley cars are essentially Audi R8's.Champion Racing was a 'real' Audi R8, AudiSport Japan was also, of course.)

Oh, and so you don't sound like an idiot to any gear-head friends, it's "Lehmoh" with a nearly silent H, nearly an N. Not "Le Mans" :-)