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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I've never understood the appeal of the Segway. I don't mind walking but I hate standing. Standing makes my feet hurt. If I had to stand to operate a car I wouldn't have one.
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Well, my days of urban living are over (one hopes), so there's really no Segway in my future, that's for sure. But if I lived in an urban environment, some miles from my office--I could see it on nice days, if walking was out of the question. I
DO think that walking to work is grossly overlooked in this country.
Other than my days in NYC, back when we took DinoTrans to the job, I've never had the luxury--to me--of taking mass trans. Trains or buses. I have always had to have a car handy, to go out to meetings and all that. I cannot IMAGINE what it's like for folks who HAVE TO take public trans here, where there's not very much of it, it stops running before it gets very late at night, and it's 115F outside when you have to sit at the bus stations and all that.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I've seen a couple of variants in NYC. One was a platform with a wheel on each end that you stood on, and controlled via foot pressure. It looked a bit like a skateboard that rolled sideways. Another was a unicycle with no seat - simply a powered wheel with a foot rest on either side. I expect balancing on them required a bit of practice, but the folks I've seen riding them seemed pleased enough.
What I see a lot more of are folding scooters where the handle bar folds up against the scooter body when it's not being ridden. There's a woman with two preteen daughters in my neighborhood, and I've seen all three out on their scooters, wearing their helmets, and zipping happily down the sidewalk.
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Dennis
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For recreation, again, in locales with cement/asphalt, they look fun. I'd like to try them. I really liked rollerblades, for a while (until my ankles/knees bitched about them). I can see using them around town, depending on the town, traffic and all that.
Hitch