Segway of Oakland set to roll on Angel Island SF Bay

[slide4less]

Segways set to roll on Angel Island
Guided tours commence March 11, 2007 in pilot program

Contacts:
Darren Romar or Steve Steinberg
212 International Blvd., Oakland, CA
www.segwayofoakland.com ; www.segwayangelisland.com
1-(888)-8SEGWAY

Angel Island is the largest island with the highest point in the San Francisco Bay – a popular day trip for visitors seeking superior bay views and 13 miles of hilly, forested trails from which to explore this scenic, historical treasure. In March 2007, twice-daily guided Segway tours will enhance island exploration in the first program of its kind in the state.
Segway of Oakland presents Segway Angel Island Experience, a unique way to take in nature’s wonders and learn to ride a cutting-edge vehicle ( www.segwayangelisland.com ). The Segway is an electric, self-balancing, personal-transportation device designed to travel miles on a single electrical charge. It is one of the most noticed methods of movement in the 21st Century.
Two professionally guided Segway tours will commence each day at Angel Island from March through November 2007 in this pilot program in conjunction with California Parks Company, the island concessionaire. This is the first such tour to operate in a California state park, according to organizers. Segway of Oakland has offered guided tours of Oakland’s Lake Merritt and Jack London Square since 2003.
“At Angel Island we can accommodate small, intimate groups of up to eight on our fleet of Segway XTs,” explained Segway of Oakland partner Darren Romar. “The two-and-a-half tour will circle the island’s Perimeter Trail, which is about eight miles long. It is a paved trail with plenty of room for Segways. It is much easier to learn to ride out there than on a city street.”
“Participants will not only learn to safely ride a Segway, but they will also experience different speed settings and plenty of varying terrain, including the beach,” added partner Steve Steinberg. “The tour covers almost 2,000 vertical feet and most of the island, offering the best views of downtown San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, and waterfront community of Tiburon. Our goal is to help increase revenue for the park by adding another fun thing to do on the island, and get more people out enjoying California state parks.”
The tour takes in Angel Island’s surprising history: For more than 6,000 years Miwok Indians used it for hunting and fishing. During a 100-year period from the Civil War to the Cold War the U.S. military constructed numerous installations that played a vital role in World Wars I and II. It was also used as an immigration station, according to www.angelisland.org
Cost for the Segway Angel Island Experience is $65 per person (ages 16 and above only), and corporate tour-and-catering events are available. Ferries to the island depart from Tiburon, San Francisco and Alameda/Oakland – visit the Angel Island Web site for more ticket information and links. To make tour reservations call 1-888-8SEGWAY or visit www.segwayangelisland.com
To kick off the tour, organizers will host a special barbecue event for Segway owners and media professionals on Saturday, March 11, 2007 at 1 p.m. and a fleet of Segways will be on hand for media use. The only cost to participate is the price of a round-trip ferry ticket from one of the three departure locations listed above. Go to www.segwayangelisland.com or call Segway of Oakland to RSVP.

[Florida Ever-Glides]

You did NOT conduct tours in 2003. You started tours sometime in the latter part of 2004. Accuracy is an important part of credability....

[bentbiker]

Slide4less,

If you are going to extend an offer of a free barbecue to all 25K Segway owners, you have plenty of credibility with me. Good luck; the more people who have a positive experience with a Segway, the better chance we'll have of stopping unfavorable legislation. I wish you were a bit closer.

[pam]

Were you there, Tom? There for both the organizations that have merged into one? Segway of Oakland and Segway Junkyard?

Steve could have been doing informal tours, easily, or SofO, easily, although not publishing or advertising them as you did.

His credibility might well be intact.

Pam

Originally Posted by Florida Ever-Glides

You did NOT conduct tours in 2003. You started tours sometime in the latter part of 2004. Accuracy is an important part of credability....

[Florida Ever-Glides]

They were probably doing tours on the Monterey Trail with Jeff Jarvis...

[slide4less]

We own www.slide4less.com and in 2003 we started with 5 Segways and we were the first in California to rent we are still first on Google for Rent a Segway

[Florida Ever-Glides]

Renting is NOT Guided Tours! This is a fundamental problem today with companies that call themselves Guided Tours. And, this is giving 'real' Guided Tours a BAD name.

If you don't know the difference between a rental and a guided tour, you're hurting all of us.

In fact, you were NOT providing GUIDED TOURS since 2003, and you were not even the first rental in California. The guy in Belmont Shores near San Diego was doing rentals long before you!!!

[slide4less]

When we started there were no dealears. We did a lesson tour Of Jack London Square,Downtown Oakland and Lake Merrit And told of Oakland History all the way and we even made 12 sales for segway LLC, I was given $50 parts credit for each sale. We did a little over 300 people befor we became Segway Of Oakland

[BillPaxton]

Sounds like a great time! I wish I lived closer so I could come have some BBQ! BTW, how much BBQ are you going to buy?

[KSagal]

Originally Posted by Florida Ever-Glides

You did NOT conduct tours in 2003. You started tours sometime in the latter part of 2004. Accuracy is an important part of credability....

Tom,

You missed the bigger picture. I think you may have chosen a slightly less confrontational presentation, but that would be less fun...

Why don't you really get upset over the larger inaccurate fact in that press release! We all know that those Miwok Indians only used that island for 5986 years! That is a whole 14 year mistake, and a much larger deal than than your argument of a single year or even a couple months...