[geeks] Racing Segways

[Fogg, James]

Of course, with greater acceleration comes greater angle of lean to go
forward. I can imagine drag-Segway "drivers" leaning almost parallel with
the ground (like a ski-jumper to his ski's) coming off the line. Maybe
little steel skidplates for the drivers knees and the handlebar post.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kirby [mailto:kris at catonic.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] "IT" / Segway.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 s at avoidant.org wrote:
> > > Since people modify everything from lawn tractors to go 
> carts to be faster
> > > for racing, how long before there are modified Segways? I 
> can just see it
> > > now, the first 100mph Segway.
> >
> > Yeah, but it'll only go that fast for 15 feet before the 
> batteries die.
> 
> Great. Drag racing Segways. Just what we needed.
> 
> Kris "Race you at the next light" Kirby...
> 
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