I ride a Segway. I ride a bike. I walk. I rarely drive....in 2007 I drove a total of 2900 miles. I biked 6500 miles. I walked...don't know how many miles. I rode my Segway 1500 miles. They all have a purpose but I'll stick to why I paid $5K for a "toy". If I need to be at an appointment or work and it's 10 miles away and the weather is nice, what do I do? If I walk or ride my bike, I get there all sweaty. If I drive, I feel like a loser driving 10 miles on a beautiful day. But if I Segway, I enjoy the day....I don't worry about traffic jams, I don't pollute, and I don't arrive all sweaty. I love the technology. I was never designed to replace the bike but it was somewhat designed to replace the feet. A high percentage of Segway owners have MS and consequently can barely walk if at all. When presented with a shopping mall, they must swallow their pride and use a wheelchair. Many have found the Segway to be the greatest invention. They no longer have you looking down at them in a wheelchair or them looking up at you. They can now see eye to eye. They can't walk like you and me but they can get around in a Segway, which is perfectly legal in a mall by the way.
So now we can all get back into our cars and as we sit in bumper to bumper traffic steaming, we can make fun of the Segway person gliding by you.
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I ride a Segway. I ride a bike. I walk. I rarely drive....in 2007 I drove a total of 2900 miles. I biked 6500 miles. I walked...don't know how many miles. I rode my Segway 1500 miles. They all have a purpose but I'll stick to why I paid $5K for a "toy". If I need to be at an appointment or work and it's 10 miles away and the weather is nice, what do I do? If I walk or ride my bike, I get there all sweaty. If I drive, I feel like a loser driving 10 miles on a beautiful day. But if I Segway, I enjoy the day....I don't worry about traffic jams, I don't pollute, and I don't arrive all sweaty. I love the technology. I was never designed to replace the bike but it was somewhat designed to replace the feet. A high percentage of Segway owners have MS and consequently can barely walk if at all. When presented with a shopping mall, they must swallow their pride and use a wheelchair. Many have found the Segway to be the greatest invention. They no longer have you looking down at them in a wheelchair or them looking up at you. They can now see eye to eye. They can't walk like you and me but they can get around in a Segway, which is perfectly legal in a mall by the way.
So now we can all get back into our cars and as we sit in bumper to bumper traffic steaming, we can make fun of the Segway person gliding by you.