Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington 369
TacticalJack writes "Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports. It took the Segway riders two and half hours to complete the 7.6 mile endurance test. The team used six batteries, fought off 50 mph winds and battled bitter cold to reach the 6,288-foot mountain summit. All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?"
12.5MPH, 7.6 Miles, 2.5 hours? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Motorized (Score:2, Informative)
Short grammar lesson (Score:3, Informative)
What 'begs the question' [2blowhards.com] really means [worksafe].
You can mod me 'flamebait' or 'troll' if you like but consider this - I'm just trying to enhance and improve your grammar-life, with no money down!
Why? Ya ain't from around here, are ya? (Score:5, Informative)
Segway / DEKA Research [dekaresearch.com] is a New Hampshire company.
Mount Washington [mountwashington.org] is the highest point in New Hampshire (or New England for that matter, but not -- as is commonly believed around here -- the highest point on the US east coast: that title goes to North Carolina's Mount Mitchell [unc.edu]).
As a popular landmark & attraction, Mount Washington has great appeal in New England. The "This car climbed Mt. Washington!" [whitelands.com] bumper stickers are ubiquitous, and driving up the mountain's wind-swept road [mt-washington.com] in the family minivan or station wagon has been a rite of passage for generations of New Englanders.
That is why they had to drive Segways up the mountain. This is a New England transportation invention, but that just wouldn't be complete without the obligatory drive up Mount Washington.
The real question is whether or not the Segways they took up the mountain have any space for the bumper sticker :-)
Re:Begging the question (Score:2, Informative)
The only person I've ever seen use the term correctly was Darl McBride, and he used it to say the kind of silly crap he always says.
Re:Use a bike, it's faster (Score:3, Informative)
Not (Score:1, Informative)
Re:...like a fetishist on his way to the sex dunge (Score:1, Informative)
In fact, stretches of interstate have to meet certian specifications for landing of (large) aircraft, in the event that airbases are destroyed.
Solution looking for a problem (Score:3, Informative)
Why not buy a bike?????? (Score:2, Informative)
The current human bicycle record up Mt. Washington is 49 minutes and change. Yes this is a professional cyclist, but the majority of people who get into the one day ride to the top make it in under 2 hours.
So your questions should not be, "Why not buy a motorbike?", but why not just buy a bike?!?!?!?!?!? It's cheaper, less maintenance cost, and with a set of panniers can make your weekly run to the store/work/play.