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As a lifelong ( Age 11-present, i.e. 74 ) bike rider, I found out the hard way that I cannot ride a segway – the balance responses are almost opposite to those needed for a bike.
I lasted about 6 seconds & jumped off, shaking.
Good riddance – as I suspect they might be even more dangerous than badly-ridden e-scooters, since they are much more massive.
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Jump / Uber
Merely confirms one’s opinions of Uber, I’m afraid.
I mean could they not have sold those bikes on, to people who might have wanted one?
@Greg
I have a similar feeling every time I put a glass bottle in my recycling bin. Other countries do a lot more re-use of glass bottles. But the fact that we don’t shows that it is not always obvious/economic to reuse things, especially when you didn’t design in reuse at the start.
Post office bikes did get re-used and renovated, because they can be turned into something considered cool and achieving a worthwhile price to the renovator. I don’t see that happening with street hire bikes. They are too much of a design compromise and are pretty awful to ride. I think the killer problem with the old e-bikes was the custom batteries, that are not suitable for consumer charging.
Fortunately, some of the Jump bikes appear to be going to a good home – see https://buffalonews.com/news/local/hundreds-of-free-uber-e-bikes-coming-to-wny-for-proposed-transportation-libraries/article_39ed9318-ba22-11ea-837a-13ba39fa4bc9.html.
As for Segways, when I was in my mid 60s I found them very easy and intuitive to ride – but whether I’d want to use such a bulky device is another matter! A few years ago I was in a pub when a couple of people rode their Segways right up to the bar: I didn’t hang around to see the effect of alcohol on their riding abilities.