Big Wheel or Green Machine

Which would have been your prefered ride?

  • Big Wheel

    Votes: 14 60.9%

  • Green Machine

    Votes: 9 39.1%
  • Total voters
    23
wayoflife

wayoflife

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For those of you who grew up playing outside and would rather ride one of these than play Pong, which would have been your preferred ride and why? :D

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Please be sure to cast your vote on the poll! :yup:
 
I spent quite a bit of time on my Big Wheel and loved it but then the Green Machine came out and I really liked the idea of the rear steer with levers.

We used to get at the top of a hill and see who could go the fastest with the biggest spin out at the bottom potentially trying to achieve the beloved 360! OH YEAH!! :eek:

Man you really had to watch out for the pedals on both at high speed!

I probably still have road rash scars from those years! :cheesy:

Green Machine for me. :thumb:
 
Green Machine. Hands down the best mechanical engineering marvel of the time. It was much easier to do a power slide with the Green Machine than the Big Wheel. :yup:

 
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I never got to ride either one. I was too big and too old when they were out.

I like the design of the Green Machine more than the Big Wheel.

I remember seeing Big Wheels set out for the trash all the time. The front wheel half ground off from doing powerslides.



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ChrisB said:
We had the big wheels, we could never keep the front wheels from splitting in half :crazyeyes:
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That's because you we're too hard on the throttle!

I was a big wheel guy growing up. Unfortunately, I was too old/big for the green machine when they hit the market. I sure was jealous of that green machine. Rear steering, come on that is badass!
 
Nothing beat the big wheel 180 turn or the ever so awesome occasional 360. I think I went through 2 or 3 BW in the early-mid eighties. :rock:
 
Geez, I'm feelin' old. My son had a Big Wheel but I never heard of The Green Machine. A little Internet research tells me it came out in '68. Voted for Greenie 'cause it's different. Looks like Greenie fans are gettin' our butts kicked.:mad:
Had to edit this post after I watched the commercial for The Green Machine. It had the words "some assembly required" in it. No matter how good a mechanic you are those three words always strike fear into the hearts of parents.
 
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wow those videos are insane!!! i picked the green machine. i didnt have either, but i remember the green machine.
im still trying to get over the drifting guy on the big wheel barefoot in that one video!!!:eek:
 
I rode my big wheel everywhere. Would have preferred to have a green machine but my parents couldn't afford it.

I remember my Big wheel didn't even have the main part of the wheel left on it. All it had was the sidewalls.
 
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