Consumers can contact Segway for a free maintenance kit.
FUCKING FINALLY!! We have two Ninebot Max scooters, and those latches have always been a problem! We’ve had to replace them over and over!
EDIT: Bullshit!!! They aren’t replacing parts, but only sending instructions (and threadlock?) on how to adjust the latch. Segway, the latch breaks in half!
Sounds like that could get sketchy fast, you ever crash?
Absolutely gets sketchy! Happened to my son a few times. He did crash once.
Happened to me, too. Because of how the stem folds, you can “catch it” and kind of recover by pushing forwards on the handlebar. Not something you can safely ride at that point, but it can avoid a crash if you’re lucky. They apparently said there were dozens of crashes, and they really should be replacing the latch with something stronger and more secure. The metal itself is brittle and isn’t designed to take the constant forces put upon it. It should be a steel piece, not aluminum (or Chinesium).
Damn, was your son ok?
Yes, fortunately the Max isn’t a high-speed scooter.
Smart move not getting them a monster scooter
Meanwhile, the inventor of the Segway device literally died on his own device.
I thought it was the CEO but yeah, wild stuff: Accidentally rode off a cliff if I recall correctly.
From my understanding, dude rode the thing off a pier and drowned… ☹️
Now I’m wondering if both things happened and they were two separate people from Segway…
Here’s the cliff guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
He just bought the company though, he wasn’t the inventor.
Either way, damn.
Meanwhile, the actual inventor of the Segway:
In 2007, his residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind,[14] located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester. The house has at least four levels and is very eclectically conceived, with such things as: hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a collection of vintage wheelchairs; spiral staircases; at least one secret passage; an observation tower; a fully equipped machine shop; and a huge cast iron steam engine which once belonged to Henry Ford (built into the multi-story center atrium of the house) which Kamen is working to convert into a Stirling engine-powered kinetic sculpture.[citation needed] Kamen owns and pilots an Embraer Phenom 300 light jet aircraft[46] and three Enstrom helicopters, including a 280FX, a 480, and a 480B.[47][48][49] He regularly commutes to work via his helicopters and had a hangar built into his house.[50] In 2016 he flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the opening of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St. Louis.[51]
Sounds pretty amazing tbh
apparently he got his fortune by inventing a compact flood control fortification later appropriated for military defense
His bartender convinced him to buy Segway. True story.
