So YOU Think You Have a Modded Segway?

[Joe Matt]

Heck no.

[Joshua May]

Now I have to get a Segway just to outdo this one.

Those are some BIG tires!

[Collin Fultz]

question---does putting bigger tires on your segway make it go faster?

[Franchesca]

WHOA!!! That's Pimp!!

It reminds me of one of those monster trucks (with the big wheels) but only like a monster segway!! Can you put bigger tires than that on a segway ... because if you can, I'd like to try! Man I'd love to ride that segway!

And no, even if I had a segway ... I'm sure it wouldn't look like that!

[Ashley Weed]

Originally Posted by Collin Fultz

question---does putting bigger tires on your segway make it go faster?

if anything.. I would think it would go slower!!!

How about the balancing? Better on the surface area? Less webble-wobble?

[Bcahn836]

Where can i get one of those?

[Madison]

Holy crap! Where did this picture come from?

The truck and Segway are parked along 2nd Avenue N. in Seattle fairly often. I walk by it on my way into work each day. The ivy covered wall in that picture is the building I work in.

Weird.

[Lisa Perez]

Did they have to modify the programming for the gyro and such and such?

[Aignam]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Holy crap! Where did this picture come from?

The truck and Segway is parked along 2nd Avenue N. in Seattle fairly often. I walk by it on my way into work each day. The ivy covered wall in that picture is the building I work in.

Weird.

My guess is from a website---

A quick Google of the picture's title 'Monster Segway' yielded http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...monster+segway, and at least one match here: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/mons...way-018460.php.

[Billfred]

If I'm thinking right (questionable, since I just got off a nap), I'd imagine that (assuming those tires are bigger than standard Seg dubs) you'd have more top speed but less torque.

How that would affect a Segway is beyond my knowledge.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Holy crap! Where did this picture come from?

Originally Posted by Aignam

My guess is from a website---

A quick Google of the picture's title 'Monster Segway' yielded http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...monster+segway, and at least one match here: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/mons...ay-018460.php.

A quick right click on the pic and selecting properties proves Aignam's guess correct.

 http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/monster_seg.jpg

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Billfred

If I'm thinking right (questionable, since I just got off a nap), I'd imagine that (assuming those tires are bigger than standard Seg dubs) you'd have more top speed but less torque.

How that would affect a Segway is beyond my knowledge.

I'm going to say that this will definitely shorten battery life. It might also have an effect on the life of the motors also. The motors will have to work harder to turn the bigger tires.

[team222badbrad]

Im sure the wider tires would greatly affect the performance of the Half/Segway Half/Boom Box. It definately would go slower because of the great rotational mass added to the machine. It would probably use the batteries much quicker. Just imagine trying to turn it with those tires on the grass...

Im sure the owner doesnt care much about what it does to the Segway. From the looks of things, he has enough money to fix anything that would
break....

He either doesnt use if often or he cleans it well.

[Barry Bonzack]

Well so much for getting segways sidewalk legal if they start looking like that... hmm, be cool to see one run over a car in a monster truck show. Better yet, think we can get Robbie Kenevil to jump the grand canyon with it?? heh heh.

[Madison]

The unfortunate thing, as if it's not entirely obvious, is that this Segway is a toy to show off. It's not being used at all for its intended purpose, nor is its owner doing anything to encourage the redesign of cities or the protection of the environment.

The picture doesn't make this clear, but the Segway rides on a trailer attached to an enormous, yellow Hummer. Whoever owns it drives it into the city each day behind their enormous gas guzzling monstrosity and, as far as I've seen, doesn't bother to actually ride the Segway anywhere.

Oh well.