Try roller blades with a weed wacker tucked under your arm. The wacker head is removed and replaced with a rubber tired wheel. The wheel is pressed down on the pavement to go and lifted up to stop (eventually).
-- wow, Dec 22 2002

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How about a wheel for each hand and foot? [Amos Kito, Oct 17 2004]

Are you sure a weed whacker generates enough torque to pull me around?
-- snarfyguy, Dec 22 2002


I'm thinking no...definitely no...something bad would surely happen. Any idea that involves a week whacker is set for the local ER.
-- waxingpoetic, Dec 23 2002


Must be my morbid sense of humor. When I saw the article title in the "recent" list, I figured it was "go" as in "die".
-- LoriZ, Dec 23 2002


I interpreted it as excretion of fecal matter.
-- ImBack, Dec 23 2002


Loriz- I also thought this post was about a fun way to die.
-- colaaddict, Dec 23 2002


// Any idea that involves a week whacker//

How does one go about whacking weeks, exactly?
-- AfroAssault, Dec 24 2002


This is transportation, not culture. The culture part is having people accept it, like in Paris, were you can skate everywhere (stores, the metro...) - like having a superpower.

The only time I want extra propulsion is up big ass hills when I'm late and I've got a heavy pack. For this, I have passing trucks and busses (except when this stupid cab driver gets behind me and leans on the horn the whole way to warn the truck driver he's picked up a lamprey).

(Btw: Rollerblade brand sucks, although new ones do have Kevlar laces - real life-saver when somebody shoots you in the shoelace.)

It would, of course, work better with a Razor (baked). Just call it the Segway LT - does exactly the same thing, 1/50th the price.

I thought the same as [blissmiss], [LoriZ] and [colaadict]. With weed-whacker propulsion and no helmet, it probably would be.
-- rowlycat, Dec 24 2002



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