Comments on: Big Wheel

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:42:07 +0000

classic transportation, it could get a kid from one neighborhood house to the next in seconds flat. loved it.

By: Anhedonia

Anhedonia — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:05:24 +0000

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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:05:04 +0000

I had a purple one with flowers on it when I was a kid. I loved that thing.

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:34:49 +0000

Heh, I would join you but mine’s flat on one part of the big wheel of the big wheel.

By: DW

DW — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:51:39 +0000

Would u believe I just assembled one of these as a birthday gift for my 3 yr old great-great cousin,lol.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:21:38 +0000

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!

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:55:53 +0000

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?

By: Counterfit

Counterfit — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:38:10 +0000

I had one of those too! It was awesome until some batteries leaked all over it.

By: LemonBomb

LemonBomb — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:47:45 +0000

Did anyone else find these impossible to steer on hardwood floors?

By: mc

mc — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:44:15 +0000

I never peddled mine, I was too young to sell stuff.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:46:49 +0000

South Park, anyone?

By: A person

A person — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:02:49 +0000

OMG i got to get something like that 4 my bike lol maybe i can find one online

By: A person

A person — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:01:46 +0000

LOL ur right

By: Cat-Loaf

Cat-Loaf — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:41:09 +0000

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

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:51:04 +0000

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!”

By: sean

sean — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:38:17 +0000

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!!!!

By: Salty Sack

Salty Sack — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:44:33 +0000

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.

By: Salty Sack

Salty Sack — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:41:11 +0000

why don’t you just lay on the side of the pool and jiggle your balls for mama…

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:35:46 +0000

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

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:35:49 +0000

My brother had a Knight Rider one. (double 80’s!)

http://www.favoritepart.com/images/183.jpg

By: DeathtoDuckHuntDog

DeathtoDuckHuntDog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:20:21 +0000

SO MUCH WIN!!

By: wimplw

wimplw — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:38:02 +0000

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.

By: CaliforniaDave

CaliforniaDave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:36:34 +0000

How could you tell if Michael Jackson was having a party?

The Neverland driveway was full of Big Wheels.

Thank you. Please drive through.

By: AnnaBanana

AnnaBanana — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:21:08 +0000

*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!

By: AnnaBanana

AnnaBanana — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:18:26 +0000

Tomboys are full of win!! I was, wait, I still am a tomboy… lulz

By: Wyde

Wyde — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:16:29 +0000

I’m so getting BW’s for my future kids. Y’hear that, testicles?
*they get itchy in approval*

By: Wyde

Wyde — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:14:13 +0000

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.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:13:08 +0000

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.

By: Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:27:43 +0000

*gives strawberry shortcake band-aid*

By: Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:27:05 +0000

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

By: gnateye

gnateye — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:23:50 +0000

+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.

By: Momcat

Momcat — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:26:48 +0000

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. . .

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:19:37 +0000

“The Distance” by Cake.

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:19:01 +0000

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.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:32:59 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:47 +0000

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

By: chocokitty

chocokitty — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:15:34 +0000

I had one and I loved it… but my mom gave it away to my cousin ….

By: velvet

velvet — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:11:09 +0000

Congrats! Can I have your autograph?
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On this blank check?

By: thefattestninjaever

thefattestninjaever — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:54:00 +0000

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.

By: Buddy Girl

Buddy Girl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:47:43 +0000

I miss my Daisy Duke Big Wheel. It was all awesome and had a shifter and everything.

By: Pwnstar

Pwnstar — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:47:06 +0000

awWWWW YEAH! thiis is my submission!

By: velvet

velvet — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:19:16 +0000

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.

By: Dorfmunder

Dorfmunder — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:37:16 +0000

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.

By: Ham

Ham — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:33:22 +0000

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.

By: Confoozled

Confoozled — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:22:29 +0000

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.

By: Khaaaaaaan

Khaaaaaaan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:09:54 +0000

Truth AND an epic comment WIN.

By: theRabbit

theRabbit — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:04:55 +0000

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)

By: Shaungrl

Shaungrl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:00:40 +0000

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

By: Read my blog

Read my blog — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:49:50 +0000

Yes, they make them for “adults”. ::)

By: lilydove

lilydove — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:39:06 +0000

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.