Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Talk about your Bigwheel!!!

That's right... Most of us had a Bigwheel, our first FG bike. Mine was a CHiPs Bigwheel, what was yours?

Never had my own. Just tore it up on the ones at daycare.

http://www.maj.com/gallery/JINZONINGEN73/JINZO/TRANSFORMERS/NONTOY/powercycle.gif

oh man, i remember mine. i had a red one first. when i realized you could skid with it, it was all over. pedal super fast to make the front wheel spin, take off, charge down the block, lock your legs, and try to whip it around. ALL DAY LONG.

second one was all black, and lasted maybe a month before the front wheel had holes in it from skidding. no more after that. dad wasn't about to burn more money like that.

oh man, i remember mine. i had a red one first. when i realized you could skid with it, it was all over. pedal super fast to make the front wheel spin, take off, charge down the block, lock your legs, and try to whip it around. ALL DAY LONG.

second one was all black, and lasted maybe a month before the front wheel had holes in it from skidding. no more after that. dad wasn't about to burn more money like that.

god yes i was going to post the same thing. those hard plastic wheels could skid like nothing else. **** gets you sideways.

mine was simple. black, with orange black wheels, orange "big" wheel. sweet decals.

I remember when bigwheels came out. I was pissed because I was just too old to ride one. I used to have a tricycle, though. It was slow and heavy.

Now, here's something. The first bike I ever successfully rode had a fixed gear. It was this old rusted cheap child's bike that belonged to some kid across the street from my babysitters. It was laying around outside, and I just got on it and rode it one day. I was six. But I specifically remember that the pedals turned when the bike rolled and it couldn't coast. I don't remember if it had brakes.

The following Christmas I got a lime-green Schwinn stingray.

green machine!
for the sickest skid ever!

http://sprenzy.com/~chuck/11-20-2006/original.jpg

green machine skids (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n8bxW3y-6Cg&feature=related)

Mine had Big Bird from Sesame Street on it, kinda week compared to Transformers I guess.
hehe

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii302/photo1234_2008/_bigwheels.jpg

Fearless since 4

I had a big wheel....it was fresh....rode it through the hood...I miss it

They weren't invented yet when I was a kid.....

Green Machine FTMFW!!!!!!1!!!juan!!!

I loved my Big Wheel™ (not allowed to be sold on ebay.com) it taught me spin, but the Green Machine kicked it ass all up one sidewalk and down the other. get it going, and crank the levers hard and skid wicked donuts!!!

LOVE the Green Machine, hence the name for my fixed gear (http://velospace.org/node/245)

I had a KITT. It was awesome.

got this one on ebayz...

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/2298/bigwheelhk9.jpg

I just saw a commercial bout grown people downhill racing big wheels. Its something to be done in the future with some friends, and lots of beers. and some sorts of barriers? maybe.

^^^lol. My cousin tied a rope to my big wheel, attached it to his seatpost and dragged me around town (South Central.) I used to slide way out like a water skier around fast turns.
Wore holes in the plastic wheels :(

That's right... Most of us had a Bigwheel, our first FG bike. Mine was a CHiPs Bigwheel, what was yours?
Mine looked like that picture. :love:

Mine had Big Bird from Sesame Street on it, kinda week compared to Transformers I guess.
hehe

That was the one my grandparents had, i never had one of my own.:(

That was the one my grandparents had, i never had one of my own.:(

how old are you

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I had the knight rider bigwheel, and a few other's I can't remember.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/kypride/tn_challenge_183.jpg

I used to do barspins on mine...

I thought this thread was about 29ers. edit: I just remembered that my kindergarten had these big wheels except they were made totally out of metal, except for the tires. They had a pretty low center of gravity but we could sometimes get them to tip over by taking corners too fast. Those things were pretty dangerous.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sWnff376PEI&feature=related

racing down lombard

i used to burn out in mine

oh **** i want a green machine

gay video but it gets the point across http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n8bxW3y-6Cg&feature=related

My pops lives at the top of an old logging road, Bat-man bigwheel down that sucker was the jam.

i never had one :(

played on my neighbors though, but by the time they got theirs I was already on a bike, started early think 6ish

I used to ride several of them. Remember getting holes in the plastic. I tried to ride one again when I was 16 and drunk could barely pedal it but i did like a 5 block long skid down a steep hill until the wheel wore down to a flat, then I wrecked. twas great

I rode mine till the front wheel had a split down the center and the rear wheels had holes. My dad brought home a used bike and tossed the big wheel in the dumpster one night. When I woke up and found my big wheel missing and the bike in it's place I was very upset. My mom assured me that my dad would teach me to ride the bike when he got home from work but I taught myself by lunchtime.

I thought this thread was going to be about this:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1081/1243344592_cea1b53ef9.jpg

OK, who used to take the seat off of it, and run behind it and jump on it on their knees and bomb hills? I used to wear holes in the toes of my shoes doing this, and eventually the "chassis" would cave in, and end up scraping holes in the bottom, around the time the wheels were all totally shot. Priceless childhood memories.

OK, who used to take the seat off of it, and run behind it and jump on it on their knees and bomb hills? I used to wear holes in the toes of my shoes doing this, and eventually the "chassis" would cave in, and end up scraping holes in the bottom, around the time the wheels were all totally shot. Priceless childhood memories.

know exactly what you mean, though I used to just run up behind and modified dukes of hazard mount it over the back of the seat. I want to build a legit version with a unicycle wheel I think...

I had the knight rider one, the one with the side brake to make it skid out (i never did quite get the hang of that though, but then again, maybe i was a bit of a slow child). I remember being pissed that it didnt talk to me (come to think of it, i was a VERY slow child).

My Bigwheel was red, but turned pink after a couple of years parked in the sun and rain. I got it as a reward for eating my veggies. And now my son is such a picky eater...hmmm.

mine kicked ***, the coolest was putting dirt in the seat holes so you could pretend like smoke was coming out of the back drain whole..... though they did have a tendency for the tires to go flat..... but th

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii302/photo1234_2008/_bigwheels.jpg

Fearless since 4

I was all about riding like this. That's probably why I'm big on frame-standers now.

I had the knight rider bigwheel, and a few other's I can't remember.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/kypride/tn_challenge_183.jpg

yeah! that's the one i had too, i always enjoyed the "e-brake"

I grew up in minnesota on a lake and my dad drilled screws into the front wheel of my big wheel so I could ride around on the ice. Amazing.

Damn, i miss my big wheel! Bombing downhill and doing skids allll day. Good times.

Anyone wear out the plastic tires so much that there'd just be holes in em? Hahahaa! Rocks and gravel all up inside!

^^^lol. My cousin tied a rope to my big wheel, attached it to his seatpost and dragged me around town (South Central.) I used to slide way out like a water skier around fast turns.
Wore holes in the plastic wheels :(
Doing the same with a power wheels being pulled behind a truck is ****ing great

I had a PAC MAN big wheel. It was swell. but i don't remember being short enough to pedal, just shoved it down a hill and jumped on. course i was 14 when i got it.....