The safest Segways in Barcelona

Here is why our segways are safest than any other company in Barcelona and probably in the world. We got them blessed by Saint Christopher, patron of travelers and drivers. We cannot have any falls now!!

Big thanks to Mary and Jarry for uploading the video to youtube!

Esta es la razón por la cual nuestros segways son los más seguros de la ciudad y probablemente del mundo entero. Están bendecidos por San Cristóbal, patrón de los viajeros y conductores. Ya nunca más tendremos caídas!!!

Muchísimas gracias a Mary y Jerry por subir el vídeo a youtube!

Barcelona Segway Glides on the catalan TV

Back in 2006 we were featured in a tv program for the Catalan Tv. Here is the video and you can see me from minute 8 and 20 seconds. It is in catalan but I think that not much is needed to understand how a segway works.

You can see the video here

En el año 2006 salimos en un programa de TV3 llamado On anem? Aquí teneis el vídeo en el que los segways salen a partir del minuto 8 y 20 segundos. Está en catalán pero no creo que sea complicado entender la explicación de como funciona el segway.

Podeis ver el vídeo aquí

Added a few more pictures on Flickr

We've done quite a few tours this days, this is high season for us. I got sunburned (again) and had lots of fun meeting new people and segwaying around the city.

I just uploaded som of the pictures I have taken during some of this tours.

Estamos en temporada alta, por lo que estamos haciendo bastantes tours estos días. Me he quemado los brazos (otra vez) pero me lo he pasado muy bien conociendo gente nueva y deslizandome por la ciudad con el segway.

Acabo de subir algunas de las fotos que he tomado estos días durante los tours.

Segway Authorised tours

Segway.com has a list of all segway authorised tours in the world in here, you will see that there is no authorised segway tour in Spain, so it is fun to see that another segway tour company in Barcelona are advertising themselves as the only Segway Authorised Tour.

To be an Authorised Segway Tour you have to sign a document with Segway where you have to abide certain rules, one of them being the use of helmets in your publicity or website. It is fun to see, again, that the same company say in its website that they are an authorised tour because they only show people with helmets on the website, you will have trouble finding people with helmets there.

I have no intention at the moment to use helmets, except if somebody specifically ask me to use them (I do have helmets). So I cannot be a Segway Authorised Tour.

But at least I do not claim to have a certification I do not have.

Also, this company that has only been in Barcelona for a year, tell people to be careful with unofficial practices. As of june 2009 the only two companies in Barcelona with authorisation from the city hall to do Segway tours in Barcelona were Barcelona Segway Glides and Barcelona Segway Fun.

As a last proof of how this people do things check this foto and the one underneath:

The photo was taken by Simon Kirrane back in 2005 and you can see four people in it, the guy in the left is me and you can also see the name of my company on the segways bags. Now the second picture is a screen capture of the home page of another segway tour company in Barcelona who very conveniently cut the picture to left me out. I have plenty more pictures that this guys are using on their website without permission, I will post some more later.

One of the oldest reviews of our tours in the internet

The guys from microsiervos came to do a segway tour with us back in June 2005. They posted a quite long and very interesting post on their experiences. You can check it here (in spanish):

Visita a Barcelona en Segway

We have a flickr account :)

If you want to see what we do and where we go, just check our flickr account at:

Barcelona Segway Glides flickr pictures

There is quite a lot of pictures (hundreds) of us and customers riding along barcelona on our segways :)