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Originally Posted by Gliding Steel
Well, I kind of tend to jump right in a situation sometimes without introduction. I have made a few posts already. I appreciate the communications and help I have already received from forum members.
I bought a used i2 last November. Amazingly the batteries on this 2007 model were going 19 miles per charge until I smacked one of them on a folded down trail post. I got a great price from Segway of Ohio on a new set.
I have gone through the learning process on how to mount new tires working with motorcycle tire irons. I have a lot of practice patching pinched tire tubes.
I have fallen three times, once so hard I got road rash and took 3 weeks to heal up hip joint. My dog, then unfamiliar with the machine, darted in front of me and I ran her over. She was fine with no broken bones due to engineered safety of tires and pressure (amazing engineering). I was protected by elbow pads and wrist guards. I wish I had my bum pads then.
I have met many nice people, and several haters. There are people who are just upset that someone else has something so nice and get to ride places that they do not.
I am disabled by a surgical staple on my femoral groin nerve, making sitting, distance walking, and uphill walking painful. My balance was poor prior to surgery, from torn proprioreceptors in my ankles. My balance is now impossible with the pain medications I have to take. I have less pain these days with the Segway. The Segway makes balanced mobilization possible for me, I actually practice moves to stimulate my balancing as therapy on my Segway. I look kinda fancy doing it. I find sitting in hard upright chairs impossible. Mobilization while standing is ideal for me.
Curiously I can walk uphill backwards without pain. So for a great workout I drag my Segway uphill. One of my neighbors wondered why I bought the thing if it couldn't carry me uphill. My 11 year old dog now has the stamina of a young dog and delights in racing and defeating my Segway. Now I can go along with my wife's marathon training workouts. That has worked out great for both of us.
I run two sets of tires, Segway originals and snow/knobbed tires for off road use.
My Segway is decked in leather. The cargo rails and steering column are leather wrapped and custom hair on hide saddlebags mounted. I can sell a set if interested.
I take my ride to market. For heavy shopping I can take my car, loading up the Segway using the folding ramps. I only have to take off the top part of the steering column to make it fit in my trunk. I take shopping carts and tow them behind me using a shortened dog leash. Shopping is fun and fast. And you know that open cashier way down at the other end...??? I am usually the first person there with my cart now. Never could do that using the instore electric snail chairs.
I have never been stopped in a store on my Segway, but a policeman pulled me according to his bias against the disabled on the machine. Pleading your case standing six inches higher is a lot more powerful than pleading your case sitting down. I wear a Viking battle axe on my hip to give my presentation a little intimidation factor. There are haters and bad neighborhoods to deal with.
Now I know most all of my neighbors. Showing off my nimbleness on wheels, I blow off needy neighbor's lawns during the fall using a backpack blower. I pull everyone's trash and recycle containers back from the curb as a crime prevention measure. I also patrol at risk neighborhoods during the day. Most folks at a distance tend to think you are a cop on wheels. I tend to have a slowing effect on speeding cars and school buses.
This miracle machine's real miracle is its ability to change people's lives for the better.
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Very nice story, mine, in the Netherlands, is very simmiler, I read you use the ramps to get your Seg in the car, look how I solved this problem.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater
Oh thers more differences between our stories, I fell only once at night
Glide carefully,
Hans