Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/28/welcome-to-motorized-bar-stool.html
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They’re stealing my electric scooter company idea!
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Yes, but will cities require beer helmets?
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I’d like to see some rules applied.
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The motorized bar stool must maintain the essential characteristics of a bar stool. Some of these contraptions look like lawn mowers or golf carts.
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Maximum wheel diameter.
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All components, less the wheels and steering mechanism, must reside in the volume enclosed by the bar stool legs.
I’m eyeballing my craftsman stool and a broken snow blower right now. Time to test my welding skills.
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And beer goggles. Safety first!
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Trust the Russians to take things to the next level
Although, to be fair, the, uh, foundation for this is not a barstool.
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How about adding: must be able to enter a pub and navigate to the bar inside.
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The V8 bar stool uses a engine with a very short duration cam but high lift. Gives it that hot rod sound but doesn’t have a lot of horsepower!
link here in case someone has interest.
http://www.hossflyinc.com/
Stacey David’s (Gearz TV show) had an episode for building one.
http://www.hossflyinc.com/gearz.html
I mean, at a certain point, you just end up on a U3-X…although that slight-but-constant self-stabilizing motion would probably do things to a drunk tummy…
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remembering that kneeling chair 
An alternative is the motorized cooler.
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I can’t imagine that these things are all that stable to begin with (I could quip about that being a commonality with their owners, I suppose). Perhaps pushing the wheels out beyond the stool’s footprint would make them more stable, particularly the faster ones…
(Personally, I think the cooler option is much, well, cooler. And more stable and less likely to cause injury at faster speeds. I think a couch, a recliner, or a cooler might be stable at 55 MPH, but there’s no way you could be stable on a barstool at 55 mph…)
When I was a little kid in the 1960’s, I watched ABC’s Wide World of Sports every Sunday with my Dad. Before I knew what “Jumping the Shark” was, I KNEW WWS had done it. They honest-to-gosh televised motorized barstool races one Sunday. Talk about the agony of defeat…
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