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Old 04-18-2009, 04:49 PM   #1
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Default Finally a working Segway kick stand

Finally, a working Segway kick stand your i2 and x2. It is from a company called Steam Punk.

They are also making their own Amish-style Segway too. Below is a photo.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Stea...egway-Legway-/

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i cant tell if your joking or not but steampunk is a style, not a company
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Steve, please edit your post and put lots of smilies in it so that people won't be confused when you tell a joke.

Something like this:
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Finally, a working Segway kick stand your i2 and x2. It is from a company called Steam Punk.

They are also making their own Amish-style Segway too. Below is a photo.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Stea...egway-Legway-/

Enjoy,

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I think this guy should get a special invitation to the next SegfesT! I'd chip in for him to attend, even if I can't make it myself!
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Obviously, we can't have infinite voltage, or the universe would tear itself to shreds, and we wouldn't be discussing Segways.
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Old 04-18-2009, 11:25 PM   #5
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I think this guy should get a special invitation to the next SegfesT! I'd chip in for him to attend, even if I can't make it myself!
And the best part -- it's safe for air travel!
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I also believe it will be allowed in DisneyWorld.
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I was most interested in the kickstand. Apparently this inventor can figure out how to make a kickstand that will actually hold up his invention.

As opposed to Segway who two years later still hasn't fixed the kick stand problem.

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I was most interested in the kickstand. Apparently this inventor can figure out how to make a kickstand that will actually hold up his invention.

As opposed to Segway who two years later still hasn't fixed the kick stand problem.

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I don't think they have a kick stand problem...

I put the kickstand down. I rest the segway on the kickstand. The segway falls down. I pick up my segway, and then I kick the stand. Happens all the time.

No problems...
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As opposed to Segway who two years later still hasn't fixed the kick stand problem.

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I'd be happy to license them my modifications, done with things found around the home:

Take a piece of polyethylene from empty gallon milk bottles large enough to go around the existing kickstand twice. It helps to soften it over a heat source and preroll tightly while warm
Put the polyethylene around the existing kickstand, and wrap it in fiber-reinforced tape.

That's enough to solve the main problem. However, the rubber tip will eventually fail. So the final piece is to stick an ordinary cane tip (3/4" inner diameter) on the end. It will fit tightly, but taping or gluing it into place is also a good idea.

For aesthetics, wrap it in black electrical tape (or another color, if you prefer). Heat-shrink tubing would be a good substitute, if you have any of the right size lying around, but I'd just used the last of that size on another project...and my main rule in this effort was to not have to go out and buy anything.

I thought this fix would not last long, and I'd soon run out and buy a better kickstand. And there ARE several kickstand designs I'd rate as better than mine.

But none cheaper, if you've got a stock INC kickstand.

And it's held up very well, and is quite adequate. If you forget the stand is down, and drag the Segway around with it down -- or more awkwardly, manage to put it into Riderless Balance Mode -- you'll bend the modified kickstand out of shape. Unlike the stock one, however, just bend it back and it's fine.
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