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Canberra Segway tours around Lake Burley-Griffin with Seg Glide Ride

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Seg Glide Ride runs Canberra Segway tours around Lake Burley-Griffin, taking in sights such as the High Court of Australia, National Portrait Gallery and National Rose Gardens.

UPDATE: 28/02/2023

The Canberra Segway tour operator has sadly closed. For alternative Canberra tours, try here .

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Seg Glide Ride : A Canberra Segway Experience With Kids

Whilst the Fountain of Youth is a legend, I strongly believe that trying new things helps keep us young. Well, young at heart. On each of our travel adventures I like to seek out new experiences for our family. Sometimes I find these quite challenging, especially if heights and speed are involved.

When the kids spotted a Segway on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin I knew a new experience was about to unfold. Later that afternoon I found myself outside Seg Glide Ride negotiating a tour with the kids at my heel, brimming full of excitement. Three of them were about to become disappointed.

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To ride a Segway you need to utilise your body to move forward, to the side and to stop. Lean forward to go forward, lean back to stop, lean left or right to turn that way. Unfortunately for our little group, this means that there is a weight and age requirement. If you’re not tall enough you can’t safely operate the Segway. On this occasion only two of the kids could ride. Of course they needed some supervision so I went along for the ride.

Seg Glide Ride can be found on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin just behind Questacon. There are scheduled daily times for the 15 minute, 30 minute and hour tours each day.With three disappointed kids looking on (and their dads as well for good measure) we agreed that a 15 minute ride would be fair. A 15 minute ride currently costs $25.00 per person.

Before our tour set off, we were fitted with a Nutcase helmet and given an individual tutorial where we learned how to ride the Segway. It’s actually very simple, responding to the positioning of you body. I was wearing heeled boots which threw off my balance a little so I took these off and rode barefoot (I suggest you wear sneakers or flats when you go).

Once we were all familiar with our individual Segway the tour began. We rode along Lake Burley Griffin before turning into the parliamentary zone. I would imagine that this is often an opportunity to look at the buildings and learn a little history but we largely ignored our surroundings, focusing on our speed and movements of our Segway instead. Eventually we found ourselves in an expanse of grass which I believe is the Reconciliation Place. Here we enjoyed a free ride where we could zoom at our chosen speed, weave and just let loose. This time wasn’t included in our 15 minutes and grew our confidence.

Soon we were back on the tour. We learned how to go up and down small ridges and how to weave safely. The kids were in their element, squealing with delight much of the time. Before too long we were back at the Seg Glide Ride Headquarters returning our Segway. 15 minutes just goes too fast!

You too can experience the Segway fun in Canberra. You will need to prebook although you may like to take your chances and turn up on a whim like us (please note that we almost missed out on a tour). 

Tours leave throughout the day. 15 minute tours: 12pm and 12.45pm.  30 minute tours: 9.30am, 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm, 3.30pm.  1 hour tours: 10.30am, 2pm, 3.30pm.

Head to  www.segglideride.com.au  for full details. 

Wondering what else to do in Canberra? Check out our  20 Things To Do In Canberra  coverage. 

*For those of you who know Striker, you will be aware that he is only 10 years old. However, as he is close to 160cm and weights over 50 kg, the age limit was reduced in his case. His 11 year old cousin was still not able to ride as she was not tall enough. 

**Our Seg Glide Ride was self funded. 

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Exploring Canberra by Segway

Janet Camilleri · 23/02/2018 ·

When I posted this pic of our Canberra segway ride on social media earlier this year, I received a flurry of questions in response.

Mostly they were some variation of: Is it hard to ride a segway?!

Let me preface this by saying, I am not the most coordinated person in the universe 😉 . When it comes to dancing, I have two left feet; it took me forever to master the skill of driving a manual car.

The fact that an ambulance was parked beside the kiosk when we arrived might have made me a little extra nervous. It was like they knew I was coming!

It was a bit scary at first, and I wondered if we’d been a bit ambitious choosing to go on a one hour tour. However, I (mostly!) mastered riding a segway, in almost no time.

Riding a segway is all about balance. The speed is not controlled by your hands at all – to accelerate you need to lean forward; to slow down, lean back into your soles. The muscles in my feet were soon complaining – it reminded me a lot of how sore they get ice skating, which makes sense as both activities place a lot of demand on them to keep your balance.

Stopping was another challenge. You can’t stop completely while on a segway – instead, you have to rock gently back and forwards to maintain your position.

Even steering took a bit of getting used to for a novice like me.

After being given a helmet to wear, our segway experience began with a short safety demonstration, before our two instructors spent a couple of minutes with each member of the group to get them started. For some reason they decided to start with the middle aged women in the group … must have known I was going to be a problem student right from the start!

We spent a few minutes practising in front of the segway kiosk, before our guide lead us, single file, on a 60 minute tour around Lake Burley-Griffin. At first I had to concentrate on riding, but before long I was enjoying seeing Canberra from a segway.

We paused a couple of times in strategic spots for photos, which our guide happily snapped for us.

I managed to stumble off my segway when we left the hard footpath to pause on the grass for the photo above – no damage done, except to my pride.

Our only other mishap was when hubster’s segway got a flat tire, necessitating a quick pit stop back at the kiosk to change to a different one.

In hindsight,  wearing thongs was a bad idea.  It would be much more comfortable in closed, flat-soled shoes, as they give much more support and stability.

People think that riding a segway is a lazy option, however it must still give you a bit of a workout considering how my feet were aching.

A segway tour is a great way to check out a new destination, and I’m hoping to ride one again on future travels (Rome, Paris, San Francisco anyone?).

Where in the world would you like to go sightseeing on a segway?

Reader Interactions

23/02/2018 at 10:01 am

Looks super fun. You’ll have to book in for your skydiving soon!

24/02/2018 at 9:11 pm

We should go for a segway ride near your place, together!

23/02/2018 at 11:46 am

I’m one of those people who want to have a shot on a segway and it was interesting to see it from someone with similar co-ordination challenges 🙂 I’m putting it on my bucket list now!

Go for it Leanne, it’s worth doing!

23/02/2018 at 1:33 pm

We’re going to Canberra in September and this might be a fun thing for us to do, but definitely not in thongs. 🙂

You’ll love it 🙂

26/02/2018 at 1:20 pm

You’ve answered my questions in this post Janet. I’ve never been on one, but I’d like to. I can’t ice skate to save my life… so have never been sure about using a Segway. I definitely want to give it a go now. Looks like a lot of fun.

26/02/2018 at 3:33 pm

Don’t worry Bec, I’m pretty hopeless at ice skating too, but I did notice it definitely uses the same muscle groups in your feet!!!!

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