Heck no.
Now I have to get a Segway just to outdo this one.
Those are some BIG tires!
question—does putting bigger tires on your segway make it go faster?
WHOA!!! That’s Pimp!! :yikes:
It reminds me of one of those monster trucks (with the big wheels) but only like a monster segway!! :ahh: 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! :rolleyes:
:ahh: if anything… I would think it would go slower!!!
How about the balancing? Better on the surface area? Less webble-wobble?
Where can i get one of those?
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.
Did they have to modify the programming for the gyro and such and such?
My guess is from a website—
A quick Google of the picture’s title ‘Monster Segway’ yielded http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=monster+segway, and at least one match here: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/monster-segway-018460.php.
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.
A quick right click on the pic and selecting properties proves Aignam’s guess correct.
[http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/monster_seg.jpg](http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/monster_seg.jpg)
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.
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… :ahh:
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.
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.
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.
Yes, it’s unfortuante, but what’s going to stop people like that? I guess nothing…
As of now you can not touch any of the programming inside the segway.
Well, going by the website below the segway:
They RENTthem for special occasions apparently.
So, it seems they do get used, just maybe not by this person.
I didn’t really know people thought of the Segway as such an environmentally friendly invention. Though I don’t have precise figures, the premium that a hybrid car has over a similar performing regular car is almost definitely less than the price of a Segway. Considering Segways can not replace cars for a large amount of people, a car *and *it makes much more sense to just buy an environmentally friendly car. Additionally, if hybrids become as widespread as Segways would need to be to have an effect on the environment, hybrids would be able to be even more helpful to the environment by making selling power back to the power grid useful. This could significantly increase efficiency of power plants by not requiring them to have the capacity for greater power output than needed.
Of course hybrids are only a temporary solution, oil will run out regardless. Fuel cells or something else must be brought to a usable level of efficiency within the next 25 years or so. The point is that a Segway isn’t going to realistically replace cars in a country like the US.
It has replaced at least 2 car trips a day for me adding up to more than 12 miles a day (and that is just back and forth to work- nevermind about other trips)