My Lavender Tinted World: Swegway UK Blogger Event

A couple of months ago the bloggers in and around Sheffield were invited to an event from a local tech start-up which turned out to be the first UK branch of Swegways. The team in Sheffield were the first official sellers of the product in the UK, and they wanted to give us a an overview of the products they have. We were also given the chance to bring a plus one, as I was due to the cinema after the event I took my sister along with me.

We were given a brief talk on each individual product starting from the classic swegway all the way up to, the new product due to launch some time this year, the X Trail. The range starts off at around £280 and gradually increases with each product. The base product allows riders to go to speeds of 10km an hour, which doesn't seem that fast but I struggled to keep balance at a much slower speed. Anyone who can move at that sort of speed has my awe!

Photo courtesy of Swegway UK

The part of the event we were all looking forward to, however, was getting to test out the swegways. We were given the chance to try them out as they are or as a swegkart.

My sister trying out the swegkart

The swegkart was a lot easier to use as it had it's own steering system to manoeuvre the kart around, although I did drift it a fair few times when doing corners. It was definitely a more difficult to get the kart to stop once you'd been moving in it. It could just be because I am not that very good at using the machine itself.

I definitely preferred to use the kart style as I did not have as much balance whilst trying to stand on it. Although I didn't fall over which I always class as a success.

At the end of the trial period we were invited to take part in a time trial race with the swegkart. The person who could do the quickest time would win a price. I was lucky enough to come third and win a little box of chocolate cherries. The surprise was that my sister came in first place! I'm not sure how she managed it as I'm sure she was the only one who took part who was unable to actually drive.

I really enjoyed the event that the guys at the store put on and I kinda wish I lived in area that was more swegway friendly as I would definitely be getting one!