Hey we dress alike.

Mount Washington is there. That's why.

I saw a program about a guy that roller bladed up Mt. Kilimanjaro. Yeah, he was a jerkwad, too, just like these people.

Ah, but the adventure is driving the thing back DOWN....

/Tom Slick Style "yaaaaay"

Keep in mind that CNN had a front-page story the first time a Segway was stolen.

The stanley steamer made it on one fire, and the automobile made it on 1 tank of gasoline, so strap on 6 batteries and go go go wherever you want to!!!

I bet it was more fun coming down the mountain.

The article fails to mention that upon reaching the summit, the rider was promptly beaten up by a group of bullies, given an atomic wedgie, and relieved of his lunch money.

And now, idiot clowns.

How's that for a better segway? Zero batteries. One driver.

Unfreakable: Yu're just jealous you've never driven a Segway to the top of a mountain.

I'm afraid of clowns

As a nonplussed New Hampshire resident, let me just say "Ayuh"

was the first Segway to make it to the top of the 6,288-foot mountain in 7.6 miles

So did other Segways make it in less then 7.6 miles??
I'm confused. How far is the trip?

pointlesstacular!

Damn. Should have refreshed before deciding to delete my scooter riding story... remember those scooters with little inflatable wheels? Not like those damn razors the kids are riding now-a-days...
Maybe they went up to get this guy?


/hope no one beat me to it

Stuntaz approve, yo!

I nominate clown boy's pic for a Photoshop contest.

It took six sets of batteries and three drivers

The same could be said for getting an ex-girlfriend of mine to orgasm.

If he was a real man,he'd ride it down the trail.Let the fun begin!!!

Why is it that people who wear bow-ties are always such complete tits?

Waiting patiently for someone to photoshop the guy back into a clown.

Geez, I might just rent a segway some day to see what they can do. I think it would be cool to have segway races on ones that have been altered (gas powered maybe) to go dangerously fast. I imagine that at high speeds, the rider would be less than 20 degrees from the blacktop and would probably require some kind of ricer spoiler on his helmet to counteract lift.

TheHipcap, at first I thought you wrote "I'm afraid of downs". I really have to increase my font size, although now I find myself wondering how many chromosomes clowns have.

/should have been more clowns on Buffy.

mmm...tits.

Yawn...lame publicity stunt designed to help reverse sagging sales of overhyped scooter thing...yawn.

Uglycicles:

It took six sets of batteries and three drivers

The same could be said for getting an ex-girlfriend of mine to orgasm.

Excellent :)

Yeah let's see it make it up here:

All 14 miles of the road from the entrance station to the Mount Evans summit parking area (14,130) are paved. From there, you can hike the last 130 feet (about 1/4 mile walk) to the top at 14,264 feet.

This event was obviously faked.

There is just no way the Bush administration would waste valuable national resources at this time in our nation's history to get a segway scooter on top of that mountain.

The whole thing was probably filmed on a soundstage in Arizona.

I took a weekend trip to Mt Warshington a few years ago. It was closed because the weather sucked up there.

/Wasted weekend.

typo, I meant "TheHipCat"

/errrg

there is some short schmuck in my neighborhood that has one of these things; he might as well have a "Look at me!" sign strapped to his neck. goofy.

Most important question about this:
Who gives a rat's ass?

How does the Segway move without tipping over? I know it uses gyroscopes, but does anyone have a write-up about it?

And Uglycircles, you are teh win!

Good to see the Segway is moving along nicely in it's bid to "REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY PEOPLE COMMUTE AS WE KNOW IT" or whatever stupid-ass slogan they were touting before this lame invention to trump all lame inventions was unveiled.

/one of the many who breathed a collective "who the fark cares" when they showed what it was.

Perhaps we need a gasoline-powered Segway? I bet it would've made it up Mt. Washington with a 1/4 tank of gas.

"I took a weekend trip to Mt Warshington a few years ago. It was closed because the weather sucked up there."

SolRosenberg: I assume you mean the auto road was closed. Too bad you didn't get out of your car and use your legs - Mount Washington is a fun hike (especially when the weather sucks at the top, which is most of the time).

That's nuthin', Tom Danielson who cycles for Saturn has the record of 49:24 to the top of that mtn.

Wow, six sets of batteries to go 8 miles. Somehow I'm not seeing this as a real effective advertisement of this contraption's capabilities.

skinink: Is that a more recent picture of Vezzini from Princes Bride (or the guy from "My Dinner with Andre") I don't know the actor's name...

Well it's about farking time! As soon as I first saw the Segway, I thought to myself: how incredibly cool would it be for somebody to ride one of those to the TOP OF MOUNT WASHINGTON! Of course, there's probably no room for the bumper sticker...

/indo-chinese

does anyone else want to beat the crap out of anyone they see with these stupid pieces of shiite? it's called WALKING, people; get off your fat, lazy asses and do some.

I saw a segment on "60 Minutes II" about the Segway. They were showing a meeting of a pedestrian rights group who were opposed to the Segway. It was a bunch of people (in San Fran, no less) wearing anti-car buttons and shirts with slogans about crosswalks. It was the goofiest thing I've ever seen.

Man, who can forget all the hype when the Segway was unveiled. "The greatest innovation since the personal computer!" Yeah right. It won't do your taxes and... hmmm, I was going to say you can't play first-person shooter games with it, but paintball on Segways might be interesting. Or better yet, just invite all Segway owners to a Segway "convention" in some big, fenced-in park and then chase them down with paint ball guns.

As a friend of mine noted: this is just the final step towards a race of wheeled fat people.

Does anyone else think that having two drivers die driving a Segway up a mountain is a bit extreme? I mean, they were employees and therefore expendable, but still ...