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I wanted a Big Wheel soooo bad when I was a kid. I never did get one, though. Do they make them for adults now?
Yes, they make them for adults, but they seem to be sold out at the moment.
http://bigwheelrally.com/store/adult.htm
Yes, they make them for “adults”. ::)
Ooh! Most of them are sold out. The adult-sized original one has been discontinued. Time to start checking out yard sales and flea markets.
LOL Never had one. . . Mom said I’d kill myself with it! So when I was nine my dad put a Speedometer on my bike. I made it up to 35mph. when I wiped out.
Oops! Well she should have let me have the speed wheels. I’d have been closer to the ground anyway. Wouldn’t have broken all those bones. . .
My mom wouldn’t let me have one either but my Grandma got me one second-hand and I rode it around her neighborhood all the time, it was great.
awWWWW YEAH! thiis is my submission!
Congrats! Can I have your autograph?
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On this blank check?
only if he includes his credit card number and expiration date so you can make sure it hasn’t been stolen on the internet lol
My brother had one. I was so jealous. You could go really fast and hit stuff pretty hard…
The front wheels on mine would always split and fall apart growing up. Kinda like a Firestone on an Explorer.
Yeah, same here. I almost killed myself when that happened whilst going down a steep hill.
*gives strawberry shortcake band-aid*
Truth AND an epic comment WIN.
I loved when you’d peddle and peddle and peddle, but the front wheel did nothing but peel out.
I never peddled mine, I was too young to sell stuff.
I’m so partaking in this next Easter. And at some point, I’ll take my Razor scooter down the hill too!
I went the BYOBW race last year on 20th and Vermont street in SF, which I’ve heard is slightly more crooked than Lombard, it was about the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I believe they are having it again this year on the same street, check http://www.laughingsquid.com for details closer to the race day. Laughing Squid is also a good site to check out other wacky San Francisco Bay Area events and artist. Enjoy.
isn’t that street in San Francisco? I remember the street from one of the midtown madness games :p
or was it chigaco? I remember it from midtown madness, i’m sure of that :p
At the beginning of the video, they said that it was in San Francisco.
“I loved when you’d peddle and peddle and peddle, but the front wheel did nothing but peel out.”
I never peddled mine. I was lucky enough to live on a hill. I used to FLY down that hill, which was great. But then I would have to drag the Big Wheel back up the hill which was NOT great.
Wow, that was a good story grandpa….
Hey! get of my lawn before I call the cops! And NO, you can’t have your ball back.
Not a fan since living below the dufus that let his three year-old ride at 2:00 am. EVERY NIGHT.
Why can’t big wheels ever have blow-outs? d*mn
80’s? I was a child of the 60’s and I wanted one. (like the first poster, I never got one, imagine my therapy bills)
The very first Christmas I remember was the year I got my Big Wheel. It musta been 1973; and I’d wished and hoped and written to Santa (tho’ I was too young to be writing essays in school).
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The big morning, my big brother came running up the stairs to wake me up: “Santa came, and he brought your Big Wheel!” 35 yrs later, and I can still see it sitting under the tree with a big bow on it.
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I’ll never have a better Christmas…even beat out the Baby Alive doll. I was such a tomboy.
Tomboys are full of win!! I was, wait, I still am a tomboy… lulz
Used to love my Big Wheel by Marx–I was such a corporate tool, I always said it with all 4 words: This is my Big Wheel by Marx.
The only thing I loved more was my Mean Green Machine.
+1 to the mean green machine, i always got that while my friend used the big wheel, but our big wheel had a hand brake for skidding out, you’d pull up on the side by one back wheel and do a wikkid skid. but i was able to master the mean green machine and grew to love that as well. the new school ones just aren’t the same.
We literally wore the wheels off these suckers as kids. If my dad saw one at a yard sale, he would buy it because it was inevitable that the wheels on one would end up being two thin disks. We had a huge vacant parking lot behind our house, it was Big Wheel utopia.
If there were adult ones, I would so totally have one. It would require the spin-out lever though, aw yeah.
I miss my Daisy Duke Big Wheel. It was all awesome and had a shifter and everything.
I loved the big wheel. My neighborhood was on an incline. It was amazing. I never learned how to ride a bike, but I rode that big wheel til I was about 10.
I had one and I loved it… but my mom gave it away to my cousin
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omg, what song is this?!?!?!
“The Distance” by Cake.
I never had one, but my friend had a Sesame Street one. We used that thing so much… I think part of it fell off eventually. XD
I had a “Powder Puff”–the model for the ladies. It was really pretty pastel colors and such.
And then we’d take those and our bikes outside and flip them upside down and play Ice Cream Shop. Anyone else heard of “Ice Cream Shop”? No? “Gas Station”? Hmm.
Holy cow! I had the same one! And we used to play the ice cream game, too. What the heck was the ice cream game all about anyway? I never saw the man in the ice cream truck do anything remotely similar to that. Who made that up?
Anyway, our friends down the street had a big grassy hill in their backyard. Their mom would let us get our big-wheels and tear up the yard riding down the hill all day. She was awesome. Until one of decided to direct our course towards her clothesline and crash into all the clean clothes. Then in the thickest Bronx accent you could ever imagine “All a’ ya’s. Get the hell outta he’e!”
The Big Wheel was like, the Cadillac for kids, in relation to a Geo being those lil’ red and yellow bubble cars. Mine was an outlandish green, faded blue, and red. I don’t remember how long I had it, but it lasted about half a year with a giant hole in the front (Big) wheel. The back wheels ran out of tread the second time you rode it. Flying down that 200-ft, curving hill was the best experience of that time. Crashes, however, weren’t so fun. Not only were you in a terrible position to brake, if you did, you’d probably be flung forward with the BW wrapped around your legs.
I was so sad the day I had to throw it away. It was (if you’ll pardon me) “to’ up frum d’ flo’ up.” I’d have to label it one the best toys — no, fun, made of mass — of all time. *sigh* Hug me.
I’m so getting BW’s for my future kids. Y’hear that, testicles?
*they get itchy in approval*
*Gives big hugs* BW are full of win… Now you’re a big boy and you can find a big one for adults or a real car for adults… Either way, Win!
How could you tell if Michael Jackson was having a party?
The Neverland driveway was full of Big Wheels.
Thank you. Please drive through.
In my sister’s neighborhood, after all the kids were put to bed the “adults” would all get stoned and then the dads would race their kids’ bigwheels up and down the street. No wonder those things wore out so fast. Good times.
SO MUCH WIN!!
My brother had a Knight Rider one. (double 80’s!)
http://www.favoritepart.com/images/183.jpg
OMG!! Loved Big Wheels. How could anyone vote NO?!? lol Didn’t have one myself but Grammy baby sat and she had one. I too remember peddling and the front wheel would just spin not going anywhere. That was usually when the front wheel was worn down. lol Good times
I used to pedal backwards down the driveway, lock the pedals and turn the wheel to do the Knight Rider 180º spin and continue full speed ahead. Win.
When my little brother and I were around 4 and 5 we got matching black Big Wheels with flames under the Christmas tree, they had big Uzi looking squirt guns mounted on the handle bars that were battery powered and had a little trigger on the right hand handle bar, it was probably the most bad ass thing ever, my bro and I were like little Hell’s Angels wanna bee’s blasting everyone in the neighborhood with our autamatic squirt gun, FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!
OMG i got to get something like that 4 my bike lol maybe i can find one online
I had one of those too! It was awesome until some batteries leaked all over it.
WTF? SOMEONE HAD A BOX ON THEIR HEAD! Look carefully at 0:30
LOL ur right
South Park, anyone?
Did anyone else find these impossible to steer on hardwood floors?
When I was about 2, I was riding my Big Wheel around my house. (Win if it ended here…) I gained speed and turned fast around a corner but then my cat was in front of me. I swerved out of the way to prevent injury of my then feline friend only to reroute my bike path down the stairs. From this point on, it’s a blur and I can only go by what my parents infer happened. I cracked my head open. 17 stitches and I still have the scar.
Until recently I assumed I rolled/tumbled down the stairs but my parents are pretty sure I made it all the way down on the Big Wheel (No bruises or broken bones) and just hit my head on a concrete ledge at the bottom.
Win/Fail?
So far I havent commented but the spoiled brat that I was (am) I had ever single toy on these pages. I have probably 6 or 7 big wheels cause i ruined the tires quick. We lived way out in the boonies on a gravel road, plastic plus gravel is not a win!
Would u believe I just assembled one of these as a birthday gift for my 3 yr old great-great cousin,lol.
Heh, I would join you but mine’s flat on one part of the big wheel of the big wheel.
I had a purple one with flowers on it when I was a kid. I loved that thing.
The Big Wheel Car Wash was the best thing ever. It was a plastic arc that you hooked up to the water hose then drove your Big Wheel under it. Great on a hot summer day.
classic transportation, it could get a kid from one neighborhood house to the next in seconds flat. loved it.
why don’t you just lay on the side of the pool and jiggle your balls for mama…