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?

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.

I loved when you’d peddle and peddle and peddle, but the front wheel did nothing but peel out.

I’m so partaking in this next Easter. And at some point, I’ll take my Razor scooter down the hill too!

isn’t that street in San Francisco? I remember the street from one of the midtown madness games :p

“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.

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.

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.

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 ….

omg, what song is this?!?!?!

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.

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.

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!)

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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!!!!

WTF? SOMEONE HAD A BOX ON THEIR HEAD! Look carefully at 0:30

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.