that by this time in our lives.....we would have realized....




hehehe.....

jk

 

But if the rear wheels aren't doing anything besides keeping the gas tank off the ground (think "shopping cart backwards"), the tricycle doesn't suck so much.

--Karl, always issuing an open challenge to M3 drivers nationwide...

 

Yeah, but what about those sweet Big Wheeled trikes with the huge plastic wheels that we all used to cruise on? Those where sweet for doing "cookies" or "dounuts". Don't ya think?

 

Not if daddy bought you a Lightspeed Ti trike! This is NOT a joke.
http://www.jensonusa.com/store...07H00

 

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I'd like to meet the first bastard to buy one of those and then punch him in the throat for being such an imbecile.

 

lol.... you guys drool over recaro baby seats but you get pissed at a titanium tricycle....

 

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A good friend of my family still has about 20 Big Wheels in his back yard. Ha you fools think you're badass for having multiple cars and a couple parts cars, try having about 10 functioning Big Wheels and then another 10 for parts.

 

LOL, I always wanted to strap a chainsaw engine to the front of a big wheel (or the Green Machine with hand operated steering/brakes, remember that one?) and just watch the show that high rpm's and hard plastic tires would put on!

 

I used to go through big wheels faster than a cheap ***** goes through tic tacs. All the kids in my 'hood had them and we used to race daily. Had the inevitable flatspotted front tire, but used to crash and break stuff too.

Maybe thats where this whole silly crap started for me?

 

ahhh, those were the days.

 

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I think we may have hit on something here. Well unless you remember your Johnny Jump-Up, your crib, or your high chair randomly falling apart/breaking.

 

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Not me. Big Wheels were simply a short lived toy (per their design) where after a year, w/ that big assed rectangular hole in the front wheel, a broken seat and tired of pedaling became a push scooter for most of us in the hood.

Now early BMX bikes and banana seat conversions ... that's where this crap started for me I am sure. Had a Scrambler 36/36 then, started out with a CL-S on track - both looked great and weighed a ton and made me pedal my *** off to keep up LOL

 

I'm saying the Big Wheel may have been where it started. One Christmas ALL of us got one. So... Five boys with 5 new big wheels, we had no choice but to race and tear them up.

Then came the scooters, bikes and such. Intermingled in there was downhill "luge" (laying on our backs on skateboards) and the 5hp Briggs and Stratton Go-Kart that my dad modified to the point that it would do nearly 30mph. This was shortly before it blew up.

Yeah. Theres a pattern there.

 

My parents couldn't afford a Big Wheel

 

THAT DOES IT! Im going to get an 84 hatch and throw a D-16 SOHC vtec in the back! (looks around for graph paper)

 

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same here. I got the Woolworths generic on-sale version that lasted about a month. After that, no more big wheel for me

 

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so you switched to the big wing... but even that is too small now. hang your head in shame

 

you're a bitch Maeng. My wing ownz yours.

 

that's funny, I started out with tractors, then farm trucks, then 4-wheelers, then drivers liscense

 

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And you were better off....
Where did dirt bikes fit in?

Gravel driveways own....

 

dirt bikes fit in with running into the side of my dads truck, although I have ridden them including a CR500, I owned and drove 4-wheelers even more

I was driving tractors as soon as I could push in the pedals without disrupting the motion of the tractor


Corey was the same way, hell at like 12 years old we were ripping through the woods on 4 wheelers at 40 mph

 

At 12 we were building ramps out of cinder blocks and plywood (pilfered from various construction projects) and seeing who could jump their Mongoose the farthest.

This was about 1980, so the idea of a skid lid never really occured. There were plenty of stitches and upset mothers to spread around, but no tractors and I'm not sure the super-fun 4-wheeler had been invented yet.

 

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Same here!! only me and my brothers would lie down after the ramp, and we would jump over each other

 

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No. But those 3 wheel ATV's were all the rage. don't tell me you didn't want one. Cervical collars came with them, or so my dad told me.

 

We were the Schwinn/Huffy type of neighborhood. None of these ritzy titsy Mongooses for us. Scramblers with mags was the ultimate for us and only Skip had one (bassard!).