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Xb12mel
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 04:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Do you remember when you had a Green Machine?
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/1_hTJeshr Dk/
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Schwiiing
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 05:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That'd look cool as hell, just sittin' in the driveway.

Don't know how safe I'd feel at 50mph, though.
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No_rice
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 06:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

id rock the hell out of that thing! you remember how well those things would spin around sideways and backwards at speed when you cranked on the levers?! wouldnt work as well with rubber wheels but what the hell.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 09:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

there would be no parking lot safe from the havoc I would do with that.... pity my license would not remain in tact.
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That looks really really cool.
It would probably go faster if the spark plugs were connected to something.
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86129squids
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That's HELLAKEWL.

I'd have to engineer some hydraulic dual dampeners on the back, might help make it streetable.
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86129squids
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Should be FWD, no?
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Iman501
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

my friends little brother has a green machine! haha, i ride it more than he does! : )
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Stirz007
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Nate - wow! good eye (looks like coil is missing too).

That thing has got to be pure terror - I want to give it a ride!!
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 03:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

sharper image used to have a pedal recumbant for adults that was build on the green machine offer.... I should have picked it up when I saw it, because now they are outta business.
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 03:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I feel retarded because before now I had never heard of a green machine.
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Boliver
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 06:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


Big Wheel

And you people a little older probably had the "real thing" a BIG WHEEL.LOL I went through two of things massive machines. haha Mine had a box behind the seat for storage. I was the envy of my block.
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Guell
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 07:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

haha i had a big wheel growing up, it was awesome
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Hr_puffinstuff
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 08:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

my Hot Seat would smoke any Big Wheel in the neighborhood.

saw my first bewbie after crashing it thru a basement bedroom window down the street.

good times...
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Swordsman
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 10:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I rode my Big Wheel until I exceeded its maximum weight limit and it bent in half. Then I rode it around with my butt dragging the ground!

Mine did happen to be black and green though.

~SM
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Bbbob
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 12:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I had one of these when I was a kid...

http://www.atomicantiques.com/2009/09/06/mattels-v -rroom-x-15/


It was king of the neighborhood demolition derbys against the plastic big wheels...
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Ted
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 12:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

another example of just because it can be done, doesnt mean it should be done !
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No_rice
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 12:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

i always melted the front wheels from burnouts, well and the back wheels from drifting it!

and on the big wheels i could do some hellacious side wheelies!
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 12:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I had a knight rider big wheel





which this thing did have a e brake you could pull to make it slide but it did not do it as cool as those green machines.

(Message edited by firebolt020283 on March 24, 2011)
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 01:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



http://maddogcycles.com/product/big-drift-adult-bi g-wheel-yellow-5077.htm

I am not advertising, nor affliated with them in any manner, sort, or associated
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Ltbuell
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 02:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

NOW thats funny to the max...make ya wanna go find one and have at it.We had some pretty steep hills where i use to live in the 60's and 70's(East Bay in Ca) and we'd tear up the hills on those and with skate boards and mini bikes till we got into dirt bikes("the hills are alive with the sounds of wing wing ding wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwaaaaaaaa...").Thanks for the post...way cool.
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Xb12mel
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 04:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Wow... Now that was cool...
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 01:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

that is too cool...kinda like street luge on big wheels.
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86129squids
Posted on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 01:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

OK- the local nuts do this every year for the end of season bash at the Gap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6Bo6zN8HQ&feature =related
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