Back when i was famous.... Circa 1984ish....

[PhL0aTeR]

Ive been bugging my grandmother to dig through her junk and find this for me for a while.....

Must've been a slow news day

[Captain Obvious]

Your brother looks like he is about to piss his pants. Great pic.

[PhL0aTeR]

Your brother looks like he is about to piss his pants. Great pic.

Not my brother.... but yeah.... lol

[T-Dub]

Now the home owner would get arrested for allowing children to "endanger" themselves. I can remember riding my "Hulk" big wheel down this steep driveway into the street and yanking the handbrake and sliding to the other side of the street.

I miss my big wheel.

[Captain Obvious]

Now the home owner would get arrested for allowing children to "endanger" themselves. I can remember riding my "Hulk" big wheel down this steep driveway into the street and yanking the handbrake and sliding to the other side of the street.

I miss my big wheel.

Hell yeah, locking up the front end and sliding it so much the front wheel ends up looking like two disks next to each other instead of a wheel.

[Mental]

I remember the "Green Machine," which you steered with the two handles that pivoted the rear wheels. The ads for the thing demostrated its ability to slide. That thing was cool. I remember packs of us on our big wheels and the like pushing them to the top of the hill next to my apartment building to coast all the way down and slide and the bottom.

Helmet? That was for the retraded kid. Which you could still refer to as retarded without being called insensitive.

Edit:
They still make em!
http://www.howdoyougreenmachine.com/

[y_merkle]

Sweet pic! Memories...I had a pink powder puff big wheel that I rode till the wheels fell off. Well at least until I was 21.

[SamuraiX]

The new Green Machine is dialed. Rubber tire up front, all metal controls with a rear brake!
Should last a little longer than mine did way back when.

Ive decided it would be a great gift for my daughter for Xmas.
Now all we need are some Kawi stickers for it!

Yes, i will be giving it a spin down the driveway...
That seat looks adjustable-I hope it goes clear out to drunk dad size!

[T-Dub]

Yeah, the front wheel would get destroyed pretty quick. I rode mine until I couldn't turn the front wheel anymore. The green machines were for the rich kids. We got mine at TG&Y. That may have been an Oklahoma only kind of store back then. Or Otasco.

[Brat]

big wheels ftw.

[dallas]

I have been kicking around some fabrication plans for "big kid" big wheels. Rubber front tire of course.

[asp_125]

Almost think we should have a gravity games type of big-wheel race on the downhill part out at High Plains.

[modette99]

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[MetaLord 9]

Anybody used to have one of these? I remember borrowing that from my friends all the time! Low center of gravity meant you could take turns like a mother!

[Devaclis]

Chris, we used to use those at the skate rink all the time. I worked on the floor and ran the races and we had a class just for those. Those things would haul ass!

[MetaLord 9]

It's amazing how fast you can go just by wiggling your ass on those things!

[t_jolt]

Anybody used to have one of these? I remember borrowing that from my friends all the time! Low center of gravity meant you could take turns like a mother!

Hell yeah, i had one of those! then my parents took it away after i crash landed for the 50th time. Or it could've been the fact that i had to have my knee cut open so they could get the gravel out from under my knee cap. mmmm. fun times

Tyrel

[MetaLord 9]

Hell yeah, i had one of those! then my parents took it away after i crash landed for the 50th time. Or it could've been the fact that i had to have my knee cut open so they could get the gravel out from under my knee cap. mmmm. fun times

Tyrel

Yeah, the only problem with those things was that it was damn near impossible to drag knee without dragging face as well...

[Mental]

That was it, I was trying to place the propulsion manner. You swung back and forth on that. I remeber my friend had one has well, but the neighborhood was too hilly.

How about Kick N Go's Anybody remember those?

[t_jolt]

Yeah, the only problem with those things was that it was damn near impossible to drag knee without dragging face as well...

ah thats where i got my motorcycle beginnings from...

[Devaclis]

My cousin had a Kick N' go. It was a little bit dangerous on the back roads in the Adirondacks. I have chipped tailbone thanks to that thing.

[McVaaahhh]

Growing up on Green Mountain our streets were just awesome for rail-sleds and scooters and wagons.

I couldn't tell you how many races/battles we had down our street.

[t_jolt]

My cousin had a Kick N' go. It was a little bit dangerous on the back roads in the Adirondacks. I have chipped tailbone thanks to that thing.

bah dangerous, What happened? that use word use to = fun

[Devaclis]

bah dangerous, What happened? that use word use to = fun

We used to run it down a 1/8th mile hill and jump it into a large sand pit. I actually landed on the scooter because my shoelace caught the kick bar in the back.