Lembit Öpik really does love those silly Segway things. He's got not one, two motions tabled in Parliament about the bloody things (here and here). I guess it's the least he can do given that the company gave him a free one last month.I don't know why though, but whenever I see a Segway I just think of this.
I hate to say it but the Sinclair C5 was a flop but at least it looked cooler than a Segway.
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The C5 was well cool. I still think if Sir Clive "I'm a genius, in Mensa and everything, me" Sinclair hadn't had the brilliant idea of launching a skinny-wheeled open-top tricycle in January it might not have been such a catastrophe. And I still want one.
As for Optrex receiving a free Segway before tabling motions in the house about the things, I'm sure it's all just one of those crazy coincidences.
Segway would make more money if they stuck a chair on it, and sell it to the disabled .!
their media marketing monkey needs to be fired .... Its not true that any publicity is good publicity , ask Gerald Ratner ....He just looks a complete tool on it ... Why would anyone want to look like lembick ?
Shouldn't this be lembicks F1 moment ?
If I was sinclair , I would have put a 1000cc yamaha sports in the back of the C5 and made it tilt into bends ,making it go like the clappers ... would have sold like hotcakes then...innit !
Neither one of these objectionable artifacts gets even remotely close to the near-perfect machine that is the bicycle.
Actually, tankus, the bloke who invented the Segway did just that. The whole gyroscopic balancing act comes from his design for a wheelchair that lets disabled people "stand up". Normally, it's an ordinary-looking four-wheeled chair, but at the press of a button it all sort of unfolds and rises onto two wheels like the Segway. Very impressive.
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