I did. (Well, where the hell else am I going to put my Micronauts?)
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First bike (sans front basket and reart pennant/flag on a bendy plastic stick):
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Nut-cruncher gearstick and rack for dubbys. 
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Some hipster girl my friend was ardently pursuing a while back rocked up on a Grifter one day last year at a party. Thing looked brand new. And fuck me, but those bikes were heavy. I’d completely forgotten how much they weighed. How 9 year old me ever pedalled one up a hill I don’t know. Comfiest bike seat ever, though.
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We used to take out the seat, and fill the body with water from a garden hose, which would immediately begin to leak out the weep holes. Then we would take off furiously pedaling around the court trying to make it back to the “pit stop” before we “ran out of gas”. Good times. I tell my daughter I wish I was 10 again and she can’t figure why I would want that. The great irony of life, to her all the adult things seem cool, she can’t wait to do them. From the other end, not so much. Being a kid is where it’s at.
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Even as a naive and innocent kid I think it would bother me to be sitting directly on Pink Panther’s face. Of course I also had a problem with bikes–I didn’t learn to ride one until long after my friends did. That was the beauty of The Big Wheel and Green Machine. They gave me a way to get around without worrying about falling over.
If only they’d made a Pink Panther-themed lowrider I’d have been all over that.
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Man, those things were versatile:
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God I was envious of the vehicles in that line. I still have a little white foot around here somewhere off one of those guys.
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My buddy had the chopper – we were all very jealous. I had something like the one you pointed out except mine was orange and white paint (with requisite streamers coming out of the hand grips).
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Agreed!
I loved my Big Wheel with passion. It gave me freedom AND wheels. I coveted the Green Machine, but in retrospect, my Big Wheel was fine transpo. Very fine, indeed. How do you think I learned to do a 180 degree turn at speed? 
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