i know people who go to the SF Big Wheel race every year. they say it’s insanity, and actually rather dangerous, which of course is why you go. : )
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You lived in the opening chapters of Pet Sematary!
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i STILL want a Green Machine. some day, some day…
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(Me, too, just waiting for our sprog to get big enough to make the excuse to buy it.)
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We did have a well-populated “pet”* cemetery just outside our back door… Even had two concrete headstones that got repainted with a new name quite frequently.
*any critter that died in (or adjacent to) our care – many birds that hit the window, fell out of the nest, etc.
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The Green Machine was my ride, and it was awesome.
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Apply some old spray cans from the garage and a lighter you found in your dad’s toolbox (cause he totally doesn’t smoke anymore, nope) and MAD MAX.
Kids, don’t actually do this, your uncle Japhroaig has spent many a day in the hospital
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green machine can fit adults. I KNOW. although drift Trikes are pretty cool also
motorized or non motorized
Jason’s right - the original Big Wheel? inspired SO many of us 'speed junkies"
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Yeah, but one Big Wheel was all I got. No replacement once the wheel wore through.
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I had a Wild Rider. Loved it waaaaay more than my tricycle. For years as an adult I tried to place the name of this thing, and couldn’t. Gawd bless the internet.
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Of course the ad is from AFTER they added the hand brake, and they became slightly less suicidal.
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Thank you for reminding me of the names of these things.
Advertising is a curious science. Somehow my 4 year old mind knew the Green Machine was cooler than a Big Wheel after seeing an ad for it.
Tried to ride in a Wild Rider once. Couldn’t get it to move. Big Wheel for me!
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I got a Green Machine after my Big Wheel got stolen. If I’d known I would have given away my Big Wheel.
But how can you match the fun of The Wonder Wheel?
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Sliding out on the Big Wheel was always fun but the magic tapered off a bit when the front wheel developed a flat spot and resulted in a ride that went thump-thump-thump. I’m surprised they didn’t sell spare wheels.
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The only thing I could think of that was as good was a purple Manx-body dune buggy pedal-pusher I had before the Big Wheel. I loved that thing, but eventually the weather took its toll, and it cracked up.
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Once the wheel wore through, I HAD to fix it. That was my first recorded use of duct tape!
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My son has a Razor RipRider. It has casters in the back and looks like so much fun. I’m a bit too big to try it. 
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Smut Peddlers - Buck Nekkid on a Big Wheel! (feel the breeze)
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As soon as I saw that movie I wanted one. Of course, 9yo me didn’t realize I would need to stick a fully grown adult in it. We did what any kid would do, take the giant inner tube we had, stick my smaller brother in the middle for a test run, and rolled him down the hill. It was glorious. He went a few hundred feet, hit a tree (unharmed somehow) and puked. Never heard my dad swear like that before or since.
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