A big wheel front tire with merely two strips of plastic?

[Don Frelier]

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[BeepBeepRR]

Doing skids when locking up the front wheel always burned holes in the plastic... So yea been there done that. I also had a Green Machine and one of those peddle trikes called a Cheeta. Mine looked like this one. Not me pictured lol.

 

[GrabberOrange69]

It was the 70s. No helmets, no reflector clothes, no helicopter parents, just big balls and no fear. It’s how we rolled.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

I do have a photo of the Cheeta under the tree way back from 1975 or 6. I'd have to scan it and put it on my PC.

 

[440Coronet500]

I burned the front wheel off a couple big wheels when I was a kid. Those things were a blast! 440'

 

[ESOXER]

Not me in the pic but I had one of these Rambo big wheels. Wish I still had it.

 

[Budnicks]

Big Wheel was 'Invented in 1969 by the Loius Marx co.',
I was a tad old (10) & too big, to ride one
I was into mini-bikes Taco 22 or 44
or a go-cart by then or Schwinn Crate 5 speed Stingray
but I saw many
bought my nephew & my son one (Big Wheel) later in life
they beat the **** out of them, they took amazing abuse
for just molded plastic, they'd do great spins on them

the Flexy flyer was a blast too, sled for summer
deadly too, dentists dream (took my sister Candy's 2 front teeth out),
back in my days, go find a hill & get road rash

 

[68BabyBlue]

It was the 70s. No helmets, no reflector clothes, no helicopter parents, just big balls and no fear. It’s how we rolled.

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My son-in-law had a rough childhood after his mother got pregnant with him in high school. When my daughter was riding her bicycle, while attired with helmet, shin guards, and accompanied by a helicopter mom, Devin was terrorizing the trailer park on a gas engined three wheeler, no helmet, nothing. He survived, did a tour in the Marines, graduated from Penn State, married my daughter, learned to drive my Peterbilt in three weeks, drove a tractor trailer until he got a a job with the Pennsylvania state park system, and has since climbed the management ladder at a scalding pace. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[GrabberOrange69]

...What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

^^^this^^^

 

[Skytrooper]

I was too old and too big by the time they were introduced. They looked like a blast though !

 

[Don Frelier]

I never had one but I used to steal my little sister's and race anyone on the street.
I don't recall ever losing.
She would be so mad when I brought it back.

 

[Skytrooper]

Who likes it when someone else goes out and thrashes their ride ?

 

[Daves69]

Nope............ not me............

 

[roadrunnerh]

I had the Big Wheel with the blue storage box behind the seat.
Ahhh that hand brake and spinouts!
I loved that thing!

 

[GrabberOrange69]

Who likes it when someone else goes out and thrashes their ride ?

All’s fair in sibling warfare. There were 4 kids in our family and that **** was real.

 

[Hey-O]

My son had one, the front wheel was junk. Bought a bike tire cut it, put it on and pop rived to the sides of the old one. Worked great!!

 

[Daves69]

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[YY1]

Hollow front wheel didn't last too long before wear through.

Biggest problem was no freewheel and hard to build any kind of speed.

Most "cool" kids took off the seat, and stood on the back, propelling with a leg.

MUCH faster that way, but stress on steering "bearing" would wallow out the plastic there.

In fact, I bet it's 99.9% impossible to gain enough speed by pedal alone to clear any type of ramp.

Those pics of airborne big-wheels are either fake, had a hell of a push, or a steep downhill run.

 

[1967coronet]

I had not thought about those big wheels for years, lol, both our kids had them. They had a blast on them.

 

[ACME A12]

Big Wheel was 'Invented in 1969 by the Loius Marx co.',
I was a tad old (10) & too big, to ride one

Same here. I was just over the advertised weight limit when they were introduced. My parents would not buy me one. But I did some damage on the one that belonged to the neighbor kid across the street...