WalkerPad

So it only took a million years but I finally got around to uploading some pictures today.

From today, Ciennas 3rd bday

From May, Sams Bday

The kids have really grown and changed in just a few months.

Full galleries http://walkerpad.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=7765

Quick upodate. Charise is out of surgery, with her wonderfully remodeled elbow. Or at least less horrible scared, depending on your point of view. She is tired and home now but doing pretty good over all. The incision area was bother her while we where still at the clinic, so I had the doc shoot her arm up with all kinds of local that should last for the next 6-12 hours and keep the location specific pain from being to annoying. She is on some general pain killers and is till woogy from the general she was under with but all and all this seems to be going ok so far. Got go get more ice on it though.

So I have had my Go Motor board for a while now (maybe 3 months) but don’t use it as much as I had planed because the performance (range/speed) are just not there, not reasonable close to the advertised specks. So Go has announced a new board revision with dual motors and some general speck bumps. So I asked what I thought was a reasonable question over on their blog, it’s sitting in moderation now will see if it actually shows up.

“So, any chance of a upgrade program? I
like my early 2007 well enough I guess (24 pound), and it certainly gets lots of looks on cal train, but as a bigger guy (215 + back pack) I get maybe 7 miles an hour and only about 3 miles range, which in my case is just barely enough for there and back, speed drops again when the battery is low ( maybe 5-6). Maybe I have a battery problem, not sure but the performance over all seems like it really could be better.
This tends to make me a little shy about giving it the standing ovation that the looks would suggest it should get when I get questions, and I get a lot of them back and forth on cal train all the time. I certainly wouldn’t mind paying a reasonable model upgrade fee, usage is usage after all.

Gizmag has article on a UK Boom Borda that has a 400watt engine and is claiming speeds up to (love that up to stuff) of 25 miles an hour with a 10-15 mile an hour rang.
Course this is really an electric skate board making it pretty much useless in CA, given that they are restricted to parks, unlike a scooter. Still… I would call that competition knocking if true or even true to the same percentage that Go board performance window claims .”