Posts Tagged ‘segway’
Monday, February 4th, 2013
I’ll tell you, some of the people from the (former?) Ultra Motors company or whatever just hate my guts ’cause I don’t put on my old high school cheerleading uniform (it still fits! can you believe it?) and wave my pom-poms for the overweight, overexpensive, overstyled A2B electric bike-scooter things being made the past half-decade.
I think they had an HQ office in San Francisco once.
Anyway, these days you can buy an A2B on craigslist for like $1000-something and there is a subculture of users out there.
(Somebody should interview these people about the pros and cons of commuting on an overly-expensive, high maintenance A2B…)
Like this guy, I see him on McAllister a lot:
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Now that personal transporter contraption from Segway was supposed to create a transportation revolution or something, but it didn’t. There are still a handful of people around town who use them, or fantasize about using them to get to work ‘n stuff.
IMO, the Segway people would be better off using an A2B bike for commuting.
Just saying…
Tags: 2013, a2b, bay area, bike, california, commuting, electric, Ltd, motor, motors, pt, San Francisco, segway, ULTRA
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
It looks like this.
Check out the huge tires, the better for off-roading you at 12 MPH, my dear:
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This kind of thing might be legal in some parts of the world, but not in the 415.
Oh well.
You’re too young to remember but the Segway Personal Transporter was supposed to have “changed the world” by now.
Let’s close with an action-packed 90-second clip of classic Segway accidents. I still feel sorry for the face-planting mall Mom who just wanted to have fun with her friends. 
Tags: 2012, accidents, bay area, california, Dallis willard, illegal, legal, Off-Road, San Francisco, SCISSOR FIGHT, segway, sidewalk, transporters, Wheels, wOMAN, x2
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Sunday Streets Great Highway 2011 II on July 10 worked out all right, with generally sunny skies in the east and generally cloudy skies in the west.
Although some, like The Tender found today’s event in the West Bay sad:
“Sunday Streets at Golden Gate Park & the Great Highway was a bit sad – foggy, windy, not many people… Also: http://t.co/aCWQhit“
Didn’t seem like a whole bunch of people this go around, but oh well.
Dog #1:
Dog #2:
Dancing – Lindy in the Park:
David #1, Chiu to be precise – he’s running for Mayor or something. (D.C. won the Mayoral race today, Sundays Streetswise. Saw some people from the Dennis Herrera and John Avalos campaigns as well.) That’s famous Public Bikes Founder Dan Nguyen-Tan‘s famous orange Funcycle in there – it seats seven:
David #2, Onek to be precise – he’s running for District Attorney or something:
Dude #1, It’s Mark Lukach (plus Dog #3) repping the always-reliable Ocean Beach Bulletin. OBB in the Hizzy:
And Dude #2, piloting the Famous 415 Quadricycle:
Dune Rolling:
AT&T sent its youngest employees to hand out shopping bags. They were gathering pro-utility box petitions for U-Verse / LightSpeed, I think:
But life went on in the West Bay regardless. So the Beach Chalet was serving a full house:
And the surfers were surfing. “00:43:17 Look at that. Breaks both ways. Watch. Watch. 00:43:20 Look! Good six-foot swells!”
And the Segwayers were Segwaying:
Hurray!
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
But if you can pony up the dough, you can experience a 4 MPH thrill ride through Golden Gate Park some time.
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If you want.
NB: The mandatory training course takes 45 minutes.
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, dept., electric tour company, eric mar, golden gate park, music concourse, rec and park, rpd, San Francisco, scooter, segway, sidewalks, Supervisor
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Bumped into famous Segway-riding Alex Clemens the other day. He’s, among other things, the “family spokesperson” for the Sullenbergers.
(Turns out that the second book from famous pilot Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III won’t be about poetry, contrary to rumours.)
Anyway, as you’ll soon see, he is the 415′s #1 Segway Proclaimer.
Here he is on the mean Streets of San Francisco. He’s all over town on this thing. He’s become an icon:
Click to expand. (Fred Flintstone wheels not included.)
Anyway, he’s making it work for him as a daily driver, as a substitute for a car or bike.
Read all about it, after the jump
(more…)
Tags: Alex Clemens, Barbary Coast Consulting, drive, segway, test
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Dude’s all over town, day and night. He’s got a bike lock and bike lights and he uses his Segway for everything, ranging all over the Ci-tay – Western Addition, the Tenderloin, you name it.
Bumped into him at a DCCC meeting on Golden Gate one time, the one where people were all upset about the rankings of the official Democratic Party endorsements. (Turned out the rankings didn’t matter, but Malia Cohen’s #2 endorsement that night, along with a few other things, is what made her your new District Ten Supe. Anyway…)
Truly, he is the 415′s new Segway Champion of San Francisco:
Now, ponytailed lawyer guy (at least he looks like a lawyer to me) is still Segway Master of Market, so that should be some consolation. Look for him betwixt the Castro and the Financh:
Who will become the next Segway King (or Queen)?
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, ginger, helmet, king, light, market, ponytail, post, San Francisco, segway, street, suit, transporter, trench coat
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Market Street’s most famous Segway rider is still at it, after all these years.
What drives him so?
The encounter. Before…
…during…
…and after:
Move aside/
and let the man go through/
Let the man go through
Tags: 2010, architecture, award, bay area, Berkeley, Boulevards, california, commuting, crash, dean kamen, department of public works, design, Design of Multiway Boulevards, dpw, electric, evolution, freeway, gm, gob, golden gate park, History, human, Human Transporter, i2, illegal, legal, market, offramp, pacifica, personal, ponytail, pt, rental, San Francisco, scooter, segway, sidewalks, silver, street, suit, traffic, transporter, university, x2
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Owing to Program 4 at the San Francisco Ballet, I missed my chance to see Steve Wozniak emcee the Bay City Bombers’ season opener last weekend. But this short vid eases the pain. Will this Apple co-founder join in on the fun in the near future?
You Make The Call.
The Woz at Kezar Pavilion on Stanyan last Saturday:
Your next chance to pay $10 to see banked tracked roller derby comes up May 1st, 2010, when Orlando’s finest rollers come to town.
See you there!
Tags: $10, 1, 775, 775 stanyan, apple, bay city, bay city bombers, bombers, computer, founder, haight, haight Ashbury, host, iWoz, kezar, kezar Pavilion, mac, may, Men, orlando, pc, rename, roller derby, roller woz, san hoser, san jose, segway, skate, skating, start, starting, steve jobs, steve wozniak, street, streets of san francisco, the, tickets, way, Women, woz, Wozniak
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Via SFist comes the news of Steve “The Woz” Wozniak starting up the Roller Derby game at Kezar Pavillion at 775 Stanyan Street just up from Haight this Saturday, March 6th, 2010.
Will he bring his Segway along, or maybe Steve Jobs too? We Can Only Hope. Tickets still on sale.
After this, maybe San Francisco will get it’s own ‘Woz Way” the way they have it down in San Hoser.
Your Bay City Bombers in action on the banked track. Ask yourselves, if it’s not on a banked track is it really Roller Derby?
via xispo
See you there!
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Now I’m sure that other people are out there on the Streets of San Francisco (™, a Quinn Martin Production) commuting to work on a Segway scooter, but this guy, this guy*, he’s the man. Why? Staying power, baby. He’s been doing it for while. With style.
Note the black suit, black gloves, stick-it-to-the-Man lawyer’s ponytail(?), saddlebag, auxilliary lighting – it’s got to be the same dude I used to see years ago on Market Street. Apparently, he has a safe and convenient way of storing his rig at home and at work, and he’s worked out a good-enough system for safekeeping while performing errands. Good for him.
Click to expand. On Market crossing problematic Octavia Boulevard, San Francisco’s Greatest Public Policy Disaster of the 21st Century**
You see, he’s not riding on the sidewalk, not tromping on the grass, not riding on the train tracks, not clowning around in Golden Gate Park like Lily, not skylarking himself into a painful (at the very least – that poor, poor woman) faceplant, not killing himself at 5 MPH, not playing soulja boy, and not wearing a tuxedo while escorting a high-heeled woman(!) to the exclusive Black and White Ball.
In short, the man has his dignity.
Quite unlike Gob, for another example:
Truth be told, the San Francisco man you see in the first photo is using the cleverly-designed Segway exactly as it was meant to be used. (There was some issue before about allowing Segways on sidewalks, but all the effort by a bunch of lobbyists failed. So, the street is where these things belong, apparently.)
The problem Segway Inc. has is that there was no way IT (a former name, along with “Ginger”) could possibly live up to the hype that came from Segway Inc. and Various Famous People.
But that’s ancient history now. What’s the future of the Seqway PT? Only Time Will Tell.
*Note the use of a Canon 135mm 2.0 lens avec full-frame digital camera. The key is to use this combo wide-open, so you use either Aperture Priority or Manual Mode to set the lens to f/stop 2.0. (That’s the full Clockwork Orange setting, no squinting allowed.) You end up with a diffuse, fuzzy background (depending on geometry of where you’re standing, etc.) and clear view of whatever you focused upon, assuming the not-so-hot auto focus feature of your Canon 5D (Mark II or Mark I) got the job done. This special kind of look is why some people get digital SLR cameras.)
**So far. The NIMBYs of Hayes Valley have nine decades left to top themselves.
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