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01-14-2013, 07:37 PM | #1 |
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Me and my i2: photos and videos
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I hope you will enjoy some photos and videos about my Segway riding experiences. I use it everywhere, in every weather conditions, in every seasons and it is a phenomenal machine, that can help me transporting many kilograms of photographic equipment, during events or during my journeys through hills, mountains... Thank you i2!
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01-15-2013, 03:20 PM | #2 |
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Excellent video Carlo!
It definitely shows off the handling of the i2 in the snow - somehow I didn't think it would handle anywhere nearly as good as that.
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01-15-2013, 08:42 PM | #3 |
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Those were great pictures and videos! Thanks for sharing! As the previous poster mentioned, this really does show how well the Segway can handle in the snow. You were doing some pretty quick and intense maneuvers and the Segway (apart from maybe one or two times) didn't slip or fall at all! That was great to see, actually. I'm not yet an owner but have been obsessing over owning an i2 for a few years now. One of the reasons I'm a tad hesitant is that it snows frequently where I live, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and I was a bit dubious about how well it would handle it. You proved to me that snow shouldn't be a problem!
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01-15-2013, 09:24 PM | #4 |
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My experience in snow has been with much deeper snow, with any pavement or other solid service being many feet below.
It really did quite well, so long as it wasn't soft enough (think afternoon sunshine) to sink in too deeply -- an X2 would do better in that regard. I've sunk in deep enough into soft sand as well. Rule-of-thumb -- if you sink in deeply enough the platform rests on the surface, you can't move until you step off and get it back on top of the material first. The other area is that on snow you can't climb nearly as steep a hill as you can on solid ground. This isn't surprising, of course. I was never able to do the sort of sharp turn-and-slide shown here -- with the deeper snow, I had too much sideways traction! Great video; fun to watch! Thanks for sharing it.
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01-16-2013, 01:52 AM | #5 |
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Yes, those hard spinning turns would normally be called 'drifting' I believe, if he were in a car. I had not wanted to actually post that he was drifting in the drifts of snow as it was a bit too much of an alliteration for even me.
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01-16-2013, 03:19 AM | #6 |
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Exactly why I didn't use the word!
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