Biggest challenge is getting the money to buy one! How well does it do in escaping a bank robbery? Cool you have many people to stamp down the snow! I've been in a wheelchair over 60+ years. Day to day living its worthless.As an expensive Joy toy, looks like some fun.
Thanks for watching! When I made this video I was still able to walk well enough to snowshoe. Now, my degenerative muscle disorder has progressed to the point where I can no longer snowshoe. Of all the activities that involve walking, I will miss snowshoeing the most. It's hiking but with a gorgeous whitewash of added beauty on everything. This Omeo (Orange) keeps the off road wheels on full time and is my outdoor /trail transportation. Because it doesn't fit through doorways with the big wheels, I got a second Omeo (Red) and keep the standard wheels on it so I can go in and out at will. Sure, I could've changed the wheels on the orange one, but with my deteriorating hand strength I'm no longer able to change the wheels without assistance. Not wanting to depend on someone else for help, I simply got another Omeo. I do have another power chair (WHILL Ci2) and while it is more comfortable for sitting, but it doesn't have the range of the Omeo. The WHILL only has a range of 11 miles (Claimed) while I've gone 26+ miles on the Omeo (with standard wheels) and still had some battery left. Omeo claims a 31 mile range. But the best thing about the Omeo is the ability to move about hands free if desired. The WHILL chair is great, but whenever I use it, I wished I could use it hands free. For daily ordinary activities that require the use of both hands, the Omeo is my first choice for freedom.
And the bad part of not having a lot of ground clearance is the batteries are the lowest exposed part underneath the Omeo. Hitting a rock and damaging a battery, or two, could be very costly!
@@nx01craig Ahh, that makes sense, I guess the higher the center of gravity the harder the motors need to work to maintain balance? hhmmm, I wonder if designing one of these more like a traditional wheelchair with larger external wheels would allow more ground clearance? It could even have the front wheels like a normal wheelchair but they can be retracted (like a large airplane ;-) when using the powered mode and can be lowered for traditional human powered use when the battery gets too low or it makes more sense to not use battery powered mode?
@@JohnLRice That is a clever and fascination design! I've talked to the inventor and designer of the Omeo, and when he started, he wanted to build his own self balancing system. But designing his own system without infringing on any Segway copyright was proving too difficult, time consuming and costly, so he went to Segway and got the rights to use actual Segway PT's and build his brilliant Active Seat Control (ASC) design around the Segway PT. (Segway's steer with a LeanSteer handlebar) Although the Segway PT was time tested and reliable, it could have limited his ideas of how he wanted the Omeo (Then known as the Ogo) to perform and what it would look like.
Super Cool!
You've got some great friends!
Yes I do! We had a blast!
#LetItSnOmeo
Biggest challenge is getting the money to buy one! How well does it do in escaping a bank robbery? Cool you have many people to stamp down the snow! I've been in a wheelchair over 60+ years. Day to day living its worthless.As an expensive Joy toy, looks like some fun.
Thanks for watching! When I made this video I was still able to walk well enough to snowshoe. Now, my degenerative muscle disorder has progressed to the point where I can no longer snowshoe. Of all the activities that involve walking, I will miss snowshoeing the most. It's hiking but with a gorgeous whitewash of added beauty on everything.
This Omeo (Orange) keeps the off road wheels on full time and is my outdoor /trail transportation. Because it doesn't fit through doorways with the big wheels, I got a second Omeo (Red) and keep the standard wheels on it so I can go in and out at will. Sure, I could've changed the wheels on the orange one, but with my deteriorating hand strength I'm no longer able to change the wheels without assistance. Not wanting to depend on someone else for help, I simply got another Omeo.
I do have another power chair (WHILL Ci2) and while it is more comfortable for sitting, but it doesn't have the range of the Omeo. The WHILL only has a range of 11 miles (Claimed) while I've gone 26+ miles on the Omeo (with standard wheels) and still had some battery left. Omeo claims a 31 mile range.
But the best thing about the Omeo is the ability to move about hands free if desired. The WHILL chair is great, but whenever I use it, I wished I could use it hands free. For daily ordinary activities that require the use of both hands, the Omeo is my first choice for freedom.
Sweet! 🙌 Maybe the Omeo company can make a "lift kit" or all-terrain version with a higher ground clearance? ;-)
And the bad part of not having a lot of ground clearance is the batteries are the lowest exposed part underneath the Omeo. Hitting a rock and damaging a battery, or two, could be very costly!
@@nx01craig Ahh, that makes sense, I guess the higher the center of gravity the harder the motors need to work to maintain balance? hhmmm, I wonder if designing one of these more like a traditional wheelchair with larger external wheels would allow more ground clearance? It could even have the front wheels like a normal wheelchair but they can be retracted (like a large airplane ;-) when using the powered mode and can be lowered for traditional human powered use when the battery gets too low or it makes more sense to not use battery powered mode?
@@JohnLRice That is a clever and fascination design!
I've talked to the inventor and designer of the Omeo, and when he started, he wanted to build his own self balancing system. But designing his own system without infringing on any Segway copyright was proving too difficult, time consuming and costly, so he went to Segway and got the rights to use actual Segway PT's and build his brilliant Active Seat Control (ASC) design around the Segway PT. (Segway's steer with a LeanSteer handlebar)
Although the Segway PT was time tested and reliable, it could have limited his ideas of how he wanted the Omeo (Then known as the Ogo) to perform and what it would look like.
Great video Craig!
Thank you!
Nice video Craig!
Thank you!