Yeah. I think Green Machine > Big Wheel.
But both beat driving to work every day in a Hyundai…
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There are advantages of aging. Specifically you could probably fit in a full-size Wonder Wheel now. Now I’m wondering where I can get one…
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I am only 5’6". Something tells me I am still not filling out one of those wheels.
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I loooooved my Big Wheel - a few years ago, a friend did a cool stencil version for some t-shirts he was doing, and I borrowed the design for this, as a reminder to never grow up all the way:
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I liked how when you got too big to ride seated you could pull the seat out and ride standing up, which let you start out with a ton of speed then get the skid on demand just by cranking the wheel over and leaning.
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Trade it in for something more practical…
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I loathe cars (maybe motorcycles, too), but I loved my Big Wheel.
Actually, maybe that’s why I love bicycles now.
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One of my favorite toys of all time. When I got too tall for it I rode it as a scooter. Has never truly been replaced.
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From ages 5-7, I would routinely lay belly down and head first on top of the roof of my Cozy Coupe—sixty pounds of top-heavy mass—and then ride down the neighbor’s driveway and into the street. Repeatedly.
And then from ages 10-13, me and a friend would blast down the highest hill in our neighborhood on our ten-speed mountain bikes at 35mph (according to my speedometer), no helmets. Repeatedly.
Kids are idiots.
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Had one of those too. Unfortunately it was only the center wheels that were the driving wheels so when the center wheels no longer had traction, you were stuck. Hence they could be called a 6x2.
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My first run with my new big wheel ended with me rolling around in the driveway after apparently trying to ride it up a tree trunk. There was no talk of taking it away since I’m pretty sure I was laughing my ass off.
And I remember wearing a flat on the front wheel because my preferred method of stopping was to simply stop pedaling and lock up my legs…
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I lived on a dirt road in the California coastal range as a kid. The family at the top of the hill had the last 100 yards or so paved. It was steep and twisty. Their kids had big wheels that they went through at an alarming rate.
My parents bought me a trike that was made with steel tubing and had solid rubber tires. Sensible from the not destroying it perspective. Not sure how I survived accelerating that thing down the paved section and then hitting the potholed dirt rode. There was one incident where I ran off the road and was saved from a 200 yard downhill tumble by the trike getting caught on an irrigation pipe. Good times…
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Ah, the sweet music made by those hollow plastic wheels as they rumbled down suburban sidewalks. Preferably in a pack. When we gave our Big Wheels a rest we’d take a Radio Flyer wagon, lube the axles with half a can of WD-40 (because more means it goes faster, right?) and take it up a nearby hill and ride down, bobsled-style, with the biggest kid in back. Of course the hill was a street, but none of us got killed, I think.
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Oh my dear lord. Hammacher Schlemmer comes through again.
http://www.hammacher.com/product/default.aspx?sku=11894
Has a range of 400 miles. Only costs $75K.
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Thats gotta have a big tank. My 400cc beast has a range of like 180 miles give or take.
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Its 8 1/2-gallon fuel tank is built into the frame, hidden from view, providing a range of 400 miles.
And here I thought it was in The Wheel. 
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Yeah thats huge for a bike type vehicle and I am so ready to hop off and have a walk break after 100 miles or so of riding. Also 80 cubic inches is just over 1100 cc’s so I am surprised the copy says speeds up to 50 mph you should be able to faster than that unless that frame is seriously heavy.
ETA it doesn’t look street legal as I can’t see any lights on it.
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I wonder how stable it is at freeway speeds. Gotta be a fair amount of gyroscopic force messing with one’s steering, I’d think. (Not that I’d know.)
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