* Warranty, parts: 1 year
* Warranty, labor: 1 year


ONLY 1 YEAR!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Segways are all over the Manchester downtown area. DEKA Research and Development has a small fleet on hand so that the employees can check one out to go to lunch or run errands or whatever.

I did read the post.....
 

My point is nobody is going to click on the link that says: Segway on GMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now people are going to click on the link thats says: Segway for sale

Thats a pretty decent warranty.

Yeah, Fussion Coffee and Tea (located near deka and segway) now have a segway. They use it to make deliverys.

Fussion is the engineers fav. coffee house. A segway engineer was the person who told me about it when I was working @ FIRST over the summer.

Re: I did read the post.....
 

Get over it dude.

Still, it seems that they are making it rather inconvenient to spend your $5000, considering it really is easy to ride a Segway. (Yeh, I've ridden one). From here in central Indiana, the closest place on the list is Chicago, only about 150 miles away, but depending on where in the Chicago area the training is located, it could be a rather unpleasant four hour drive to get there.

I guess requiring the training will provide some minimal protection against law suits from people who ride their Segways in front of dump trucks, etc.

I wonder....
 

I wonder if when u go to training and pick up your Segway if they make you sign some sort of waiver, that takes all blame away from the Segway company. Not sure why they wouldnt tell you about this before, but you never know.

I've been to central Indiana. Kokomo even. There aren't too many places in central Indiana where commuting with a Segway makes much sense. I mean I don't think they run real well in corn fields and feed lots. :-)

But seriously, I think the big factor is population density. The big cities are likely to have enough people to justify a training center. If five people in Indinapolis, 3 people in Ft Wayne and one person in Kokomo buy a Segway is that enough to justify a training center on a regular basis? Where in central Indiana (which almost defines the middle of nowhere) would you put a training center that would not have to draw from 200 miles to fill a class?

If a company buys a bunch of Segways then maybe they would set up a special class but I doubt you can cost justify a retail customer training center outside a pretty big city.

Re: I wonder....
 

Interesting. That wouldn't be a half bad idea either. Mabey it would shut up the sue-it.com folks.

I hate people who are like O well lets go sue segway. YOU buy the segway YOU take the risk. Thats like saying, I am buying a bike and if I fall beacuse I screw-up I am sueing the company that made the bike.

People are dumb... sorry about that

Hopefully the meteor shower will make me feel better :D

I didn't mean to suggest that they should have a training class in Kokomo, or even Indianapolis for that matter. My thought was that the machine is easy enough to operate that with good written instructions to get you started, and with a little practice, you would not need the training class to ride the machine.

Riding it is different from other two wheel machines. You lean forward or backward to go forward, go backward, or stop. You twist the left hand grip to turn. Still, it is intuitive enough and easy anough to "get the hang of" that it shouldn't be necessary to take a day of vacation and drive 8-10 hours round trip for a class. This is, of course, just my opinion.

As far as practical uses for the machine in Kokomo, Indiana, there probably aren't many. I don't know if it is legal or not, but you could probably get by with riding one on the sidewalks, but you'd probably want to slow down for the really big cracks and "steps" that many of them have.

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
 

THEY make it sound like its easier to fly a plane than it is to operate a Segway. AKA Hardway

There is one control to it: The steering switch

Plug the key in, step up on it, lean forward and go..................................

some key works from the segway site:

Important notice: Purchaser (or the person to whom the Segway HT is to be shipped) must attend Segway provided training and completely and carefully review all user materials provided by Segway before using the Segway HT. The Segway HT has not been designed, tested, or approved as a medical device. Riders must be able to step on and off the Segway HT, requiring physical abilities similar to climbing and descending stairs.



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Re: FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
 

I just rode one a few hours ago, i can say that it is VERY easy to learn how to do it..... it was the second time i've ridden one, but i just hopped on and was wizzing around within a few seconds... this time i got to do it with the "fast" key in :)

the WPI police have them here - the took the training last weekend. Basically it consists of a 2 hour classroom session - basic safety materials, some reading, a few safety videos. Then the "class" heads out and goes around an obstacle course - basically the same course they showed in the 60 minutes II video... After this, they go outside and take a tour around the grounds of the segway plant.

I want one - it took me 15 seconds to get across the quad... normally this takes me a minute :)

Tom

Boy do I want to ride one again....

this time not confined to a 10' X 10' area.