Things I miss: the Big Wheel

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/things-i-miss-the-big-wheel.html

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Things were tight in the 80s and I didn’t have the coolest or most toys. But I did have a Big Wheel.

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It’s 2016, you don’t have to miss anything anymore.


No love for the Green Machine?

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Things I miss: the Big Wheel
No you don't. You miss the Platonic Ideal of Big Wheel. The Platonic Actual of Big Wheel kind of sucked.
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Look at the photos above, via IEK. Think again.

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https://www.huffybikes.com/sliders/

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None of those were genuine, original Big Wheels, two aren’t moving and none are on a hill.*

  • [Edit: Note that this refers to IronEdithKiddRegular’s post, not the page, because the page is mostly blocked where I am]
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You were lucky enough to have the Polish knockoff?

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Ask, and the WebTubz deliver:

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I had a Raleigh. More precisely, I had a Raleigh that was older than I was. I’m pretty sure that made me a proto-hipster, which would explain the mustache.

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Like this commercial, we had a roving Big Wheel gang on my block.
I remember I was such a small kid, I had to scoot that seat all the way forward. My little brother had a Little Wheel, too.

There was a kid down the street who had a six-wheel rover that operated with hand cranks, but he was kind of a jerk so we didn’t play with him often.

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Oh so much fun I had with my brother and our friends had zooming down the sidewalk racing each other with those and wearing holes in the plastic wheels.

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Hey! I wondered why I was always alone… That thing had treads on the wheels, so it worked better on our gravel driveway. I would sneak out on the paved road and ride down the hill, but it really wasn’t very safe.

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There was a kid down the street who had a six-wheel rover that operated with hand cranks, but he was kind of a jerk so we didn't play with him often.
The Wild Rider.
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Put a cardboard appliance box around the big wheel. Apply aluminum foil and some upside down salad bowls, etc — SPACE SHIP.

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Safety? We are children of decades where that word hadn’t even been coined yet.

Come to think of it, looking at the enormous bruise on my arm, I still haven’t quite internalized the concept.

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That’s roughly the motto for childhood.

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Thanks.

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#Ooooooooh!

#wantwantwant

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It was the speeding gravel and pulp trucks, not the trip down the hill…

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