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Segway LA Planned Glides

 

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The Bob's Ride(s) #1:

Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake California hosts an LA tradition on Friday nights. Everybody with a cool, cherried out, super classic car shows up in an impromptu gathering of the automotive clans. It's been going on for decades.

Now it glides. Five Segway owners cruised Bob's on Friday, March 14 from about 6:30 to 10:00 PM and "connected." Among the hot rods, classics, antiques, ultra-sports -cars and tweaked motorcycles, the handful of HT's became the hit of the evening.

Five owners, DonK, Wheels, BruceWright, toybuilder and I gave demos late into the evening. Everybody smiled. Many had their first glide. Nobody got off it saying, "so what."

Here are some quick snaps:

DonK had lighting solved. Sharp eyes may spot the bell on his handlebars...

Wheels explains something... Note the thick pad he's put on the base to "even out the bumps." You can tell Wheels' machine by the chrome stripping on the fenders, too. Now his wife's HT has the same family "trim."

BruceWright walks along an increasingly experienced glider.

One of the youngest gliders of the night. The wire thing on the control shaft is a bike lock with internal alarm. Note the slick black stripping on the fenders. That blue gizmo is a strobing LED stick.

Getting the hang of it was the order of the day. And everybody did.

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4 30 03 

NOTE:The Bob's Glide has been so much fun we do it nearly every Friday evening!

Yep, we will gather once again in plurality at the Classic Car Night at Bob's Big Boy at 4211 Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake (Burbank, officially) for a few pictures* taken from the back of our Segways.

It starts about five-ish. And with daylight savings time, that means there is light.

Any Segway HT owners in the LA area are encouraged to participate.

* Hey, does that qualify as a Glide By Shooting?

You never know WHO is going to show up...

Sunday, March 23: Venice Beach Boardwalk. 12 Noon until the batteries gave out.

Ours or our Segways'?

Arrival was at your convenience. We didn't have any trouble spotting each other.

All sorts of

• people,
• entertainers,
• strollers,
• skaters,
• bicyclists,
• art vendors,
• café raconteurs,
• musicians,
• magicians,
• photographers,
• political soap boxers,
• vendors,
• shops, cops and stops

...presented themselves to the long Venice BoardWalk.

It runs from the portion highlighted in the map here more than a mile southeast to Venice Boulevard and beyond.

A true test of Segway integration with foot traffic.

The parallel winding bike lanes make getting out of the crowded areas quite easy.

By parking in this beach side lot just north of the Walk, one can take the bike path or footpath into the heart of it.

Some images:

This is taken from in the thick of it. Still, no toes bruised.

One of the many demonstration riders dicovering that there's more to life than just sex, drugs and/or rock n' roll.

You're kidding? No?

Not kidding. The Power Assist mode turns the HT into a "ski boat" for skaters.

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