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Segway enthusiast group disbands
Author: Phil CogarPublished: 10th August 2007
No more Segway group rides? Darn! And here I was about to buy one.
The group's treasurer, Frad Kaplan, said that the group was unable to grow because Segway Inc. would not provide a list of email addresses of people who had purchased the scooter.
"We had a list that was essentially three years old," he said.
Segway spokeswoman Carla Vallone insisted that the group's disbanding is not an indicator of falling Segway sales stating that there has been a 50 percent annual growth in sales since the 2002 launch of the scooter.
This only comes as another blow to the expensive self-balancing scooter after many cities had enacted bans on allowing them to travel on city side walks last year.
Were any of you out there a member of the Segway Enthusiast Group of America? Do we have any members who own or have ridden one? Tell us what you think about the Segway over in the forums or in the comments below.
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SEGA?
:D
Illegal?
Is it one of those "you are not allowed to use it on the sidewalk, but you are not allowed to use it on the street" ?
Yup, they're illegal on the pavement, but not allowed on the roads because they're not registered etc.
You say ride a bike proxess, but they're not always practical, besides, where's your geek spirit?!
Like your not allowed to ride your bike on a pavement, everyone still does it though
how about a microcontroler controlled electric assisted bike?
this isn't 1992
Clearly never been to Paris, or half of Austrailia, or many other major cities.
Rollerblading may have been a fad in large parts of the world, but it's actually not a bad form of transportation and is still very popular in some places.