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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Woo, Segway! The original? Did I miss your thread?
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No, it's the Ninebot Mini Pro. Ninebot is the Chinese company that bought Segway. Got it for ~$300 when it went on sale at Newegg.
15 mile range, 10 MPH top speed. I'm looking into how to increase speed. There's a microprocessor swap for $35 that gives it 3 more MPH plus some other functionality, but I'd screw that solder job up for sure. Supposedly someone has hacked it to be software upgradable, but they don't want to release it since they don't know how to monetize the hack yet.
Bigger tires can add about 2 MPH.
I'm the biggest dork Segwaying to Safeway and grocery shopping on it. People ask me about it all the time, and I simply let them take it for a test ride.
The thing is so entertaining that I sometimes just stand on it while I work at my standing desk, or fold and put away clothes while on it.
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