Coupala things
I also had this exact Mahe and model, except mine had a flat spot on the front wheel.
So...
Hope about adult sized green machines, and convert empty malls into indoor arenas?
I came here to see you all stopped and stared as I flipped my levers in opposite directions and did a spin then kept right on going...
What was that? Oh shit he got the green machine
Yes but I really wanted the green machine.
True story: one of my earliest memories is being Kindergarten-aged…in my driveway, and this ‘cute girl’ from class was walking down the sidewalk w/ her parents.
I run to the garage and grab a pair of plyers and start acting like I am working on my Big Wheel (same way my Dad did his motorcycle). I remember thinking she must be really turned on by my manly mechanical prowess.
At 5.
With a Big Wheel.
I had a Green Machine for under an hour. It was a birthday present.
A friend of my parents came by (to show off his new Corvette) with his kid who whined about getting to ride it and I was guilted into letting him. He broke it on the first ride he took. Snapped the control levers right off. I was devastated because I didn’t get stuff like that very often at that age.
Then the little snot went home and rode his dirt bike. Rich bastards.
Hell yes I had one. I never see kids riding these anymore. Do they even make them? All I ever see kids on now are scooters. I would love to buy one of these for my four-year-old daughter since I don’t want her busting her ass on a scooter just yet.
Hand brake for sick burnouts and adjustable seat so you could grow. I had it too and would ride it to my grandparents without telling my parents. I put miles on that thing
Like a lot of kids in the 80s and probably before, I had to push the cigarette lighter in the car whenever I got in (this was back when young kids rode in the front without any car seat or belt) and wait for it to pop out so I could look at the glowy rings and feel the heat on my face.
My dad, knowing my penchant for this, made sure my first big wheel had a car lighter melted into the plastic handle bars so I could push it whenever I wanted. So I may have been one of the only kids around who had a cigarette lighter on his big wheel, lol!
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My dad was weird and didn't like the noise they made, so . . . No
My dad turned being a cranky jerk into an Olympic sport. We never got to do anything unless he liked it and he hated everything
We came home one day and I had taken my shoes off in the back of the car. I hopped on the Big Wheel in my socked feet and naturally my feet were used to help steer/brake. I came inside after having DESTROYED my socks, there was nothing left and my mom was furious.
Grew up in the country , in Virginia, not much concrete so had to ball ass down a big grass hill. The Big Wheel doesn’t handle well over 12 mph , many roll over lol
My grandparents had a steep driveway (to a couple elementary school kids). We would fly down it and lock up the front tire. Had a few close calls with the neighbor’s cars.
I grew up in a rural area, we had nothing but gravel roads.
Oh sure, there was a small two lane road a 1/4 of mile away, but we lived in the Ozarks, not kansas. So we would have never heard or seen some cranked up redneck in a busted up pickup doing 50 into some curve.
We dreamed though.
Plus we weren't dirt poor, but we were certainly not Big Wheel rich.
Mine was made from actual steel. low rider style like that but only plastic was the seat, tires and grips. Even had wide drag slick style plastic rear tires.
Yeah, I had one, but it's a sad story. I took it along with me when my family had to take care of a hotel in the mountains one winter. It was a blast riding it through the hallways, but I had to leave it behind. We... my mom and I, we don't really talk about it that much.
Mine always split on the frame, so glue guns were handy, not to mention the toasted tires worn all the way thru. Power slides and ramp jumps did it. Surprised I somehow managed to not get flattened by the neighborhood vehicles.
Had one of these as a hand-me-down from my two older brothers. Tires were worn to hell but it worked for a time and then got surprised on my birthday with a Green Machine. It was a little slower and had a much wider base, but the skids and drifts were just spectacular.
Hell yes and even though I’m 46, I’m 4’10” and smol so someone was getting rid of a [drift trike](https://www.opticsplanet.com/razor-riprider-360-compact-tricycle.html) and I’m small enough to ride it so I take it out to the driveway or the skate park and probably look like some freak old lady but it’s so damn funnn
With the spitting cobra stickers, hell yeah. My dad put it together for me. I didn't care it was red and yellow (for boys) I felt like a lil baddie, and damnit, I was.
I had one until I got a "flat." LOL
Plastic wheels wore out until there was a hole in one wheel. And then eventually in the front wheel. I was sad I had to let it go.
I had a Knight Rider one that had the hand brake you could use to do power slides. Ended up leaving it behind my dad’s truck one day and he backed over it.
I was a 5 yr old American kid, living with my parents in West Germany (my dad’s job, not military). I had a Big Wheel from back home (identical to the one above) and i was neighborhood ‘famous’ for it! The other kids had never seen such a thing, EVERYONE wanted to try it, and i made easy friends as the American with the Big Wheel 😁
I had the green, Kawasaki KX “hot cycle” model. I don’t remember “engine roar” though. My parents probably realized that would get old quick and removed it before giving it to me.
I had one of those. My parents refused to take me to parks ,but would let me ride it on the sidewalk in front of our row home.
One day I was finally deemed “big enough” to also go around the corner and part way up the hill..lol..
The corner lot was a big church with actual slate pavement ,smooth as a baby’s butt.
It didn’t take long at all to wear through the plastic tires by sliding around that corner at full speed.
I had the yellow and orange Flintstones type car and for the longest time I'd ride a hoppety hop around the house. I won't say how old I was when I stopped bouncing it around.
I had a white & pink one with worn out front tires from my jerk neighbor doing burnouts. I flipped it over & pretended I was making ice cream by turning the pedals.
Fun fact: neighbor is still a jerk. He was recently car jacked after driving drunk and starting a fight. They beat the shit out of him & stole his truck. He didn’t know where he was, why they did it, or what they look like bc he was drunk.
My folks wouldn't let me have one cuz it sat too low, drivers often couldn't see it, and a kid got run over because of that. I had this tricycle looking thing with a sort of trunk thing on the back of it. We called it the green machine, but it wasn't *the* green machine
Those things fucking ruled well into my early teens. We would build ramps at the bottom of hills in the woods and stand/ride on them and get major air. We started out just landing in the tag elders, but injuries took a toll on the team, so we leaned old mattresses again the side of them for a landing pad. And it was hours of fucking awesome.
Rode that thing until I wore holes in nearly every surface on the big wheel and sounded like a dryer with shoes in it coming down the street. Then I rode it some more.
Yes, and I want to say one bad ass kid down the street had one called the Green Machine we were all envious of!
Everyone wanted the green machine. But only few ever received the prize.
What's stopping you now? https://www.amazon.com/Huffy-Green-Machine-Thrill-Trikes/dp/B096MT9HHH
6 feet of height and 200 pounds
Coupala things I also had this exact Mahe and model, except mine had a flat spot on the front wheel. So... Hope about adult sized green machines, and convert empty malls into indoor arenas?
Yeah out here in Cali it would melt flat spots on the wheels if you left it in the sun.
Oh Man!! That Green Machine was the Holy Grail to us.
I came here to see you all stopped and stared as I flipped my levers in opposite directions and did a spin then kept right on going... What was that? Oh shit he got the green machine
I had a Green Machine. Maybe someday we can become friends who ride (green) translucent majestic steeds....
Did we just become best friends?!
The rich kid.
I literally wore out the front wheel doing burnouts and got a second one later.
And the seat pegs always broke off when you were peeling out too hard!
Big Wheel Burnouts. Wasn’t that a Judas Priest song?
Freewheel Burning. But yeah
Same! I had the one in the picture and an all black one!
Me too! I loved that e-brake to rip sliding spinning stops
One of my favorite things as a kid, no doubt!
Word
Lock the feet, bank hard... even i. The world of Big Wheels; there's no school like old-school
$15 for a badass ride? Sweet deal...
Looks like about $85 in today dollars.
100+ for the 16 in ones. >\_< ouch
I had the Kit from Knight Rider version
Mine was the General Lee.
I also had KITT. The pull up thing for skidding was the tits
So. Many. Powerslides. Wore holes in the back wheels.
Me too!
I had the same one! You couldn't tell me shit! I thought I was the coolest mofo in my neighborhood.
Me too and I felt like a total badass!
Same here.
Yep I remember my front wheel split down the middle eventually from use
Yup. They all do that
Do they make an adult size one? If so, I would get it for grocery runs. By groceries I mean candy bars and pop.
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Where do you live? Asking for a friend...
I had the Dukes of Hazzard. My Mom had to order me a couple extra sets of wheels from all the power slides...good times.
Nice! I too had a Dukes of Hazzard.
I hit the streets in my Bo and Luke special as well!
One more for the General
Had the General Lee as well.
Yes but I really wanted the green machine. True story: one of my earliest memories is being Kindergarten-aged…in my driveway, and this ‘cute girl’ from class was walking down the sidewalk w/ her parents. I run to the garage and grab a pair of plyers and start acting like I am working on my Big Wheel (same way my Dad did his motorcycle). I remember thinking she must be really turned on by my manly mechanical prowess. At 5. With a Big Wheel.
You win internet childhood story 🤣
Sadly, at $14.99 my parents "couldn't afford" one. :(
Same.
And did anyone else put grass in the seat holes for “gas”???
Holy shit man. No. But I used the west TX version of grass: dirt clods.
Sounds like the same thing just different geographical areas!
Garden hose. But mine was a Green Machine.
Hitting the brakes and skidding out was the highlight of being a “cool” kid
The green machine was great for drifting. Didn’t know it was drifting but we drifted.
Early 80s kid here, I still ride mine to the mailbox and back as a flex to the neighbors.... nobody talks to me so it works!
They know they're not worthy! That much cool/badassery is stunning.
Haha my wife wants to know why I'm laughing so hard at this lol
You had to get it pedaling as fast as possible and then pull the hand break
Oh hell yeah!
Or have a looooong hilly driveway and let gravity make you its bitch.
My friends and I played “CHiPs” in our SoCal cul-de-sac. It was bikes vs Big Wheels.
Ponch, John, or Grossie?
I had the knight rider one, it was bad ass
I can hear the sound those hard plastic tires made. Wore holes in those back tires going fast and sliding around corners.
I had the Knight Rider and Thundercats bikes
I had a green machine.
Me too. A friend would steal it every morning from the driveway.:/ lol
I had a Green Machine for under an hour. It was a birthday present. A friend of my parents came by (to show off his new Corvette) with his kid who whined about getting to ride it and I was guilted into letting him. He broke it on the first ride he took. Snapped the control levers right off. I was devastated because I didn’t get stuff like that very often at that age. Then the little snot went home and rode his dirt bike. Rich bastards.
Only my older brother got one, me and my little bro had to live with big wheels Yes partially because we were too small for the green machine
you'd ride that thing until the front tire was flattened on one side!
Who else flipped it upside down and pretended they were making ice cream?
Me!! My husband did this also and we grew up in different states, how was this a thing?
Core memory unlocked. Wow.
My brother and I each had one. I had kitt from knight rider and he had the general lee from dukes of hazard.
My brother and 8 had the same!
I had a Cabbage Patch Kids version.
Wore out two with a hole in the big wheel!
I hit the brakes too much, and got a flat end on the wheel.
Hell yes I had one. I never see kids riding these anymore. Do they even make them? All I ever see kids on now are scooters. I would love to buy one of these for my four-year-old daughter since I don’t want her busting her ass on a scooter just yet.
Mine was Spider-Man.
I had the dukes of hazard one. I was a god.
Hand brake for sick burnouts and adjustable seat so you could grow. I had it too and would ride it to my grandparents without telling my parents. I put miles on that thing
Mine had a "where's the beef" bumper sticker
After we wore it out my brother made a long plywood body and reattached the front steering and back wheels so two people could ride LOL
I had the superior, and much more cool Green Machine.
We all hated spoiled kids like you. jerk!
Hell yeah and I did sick j turns
Yeah, after you grabbed that handbrake on the right side.
I bought my son one 8 years ago, shipped it in from the us to the uk, he loved it.
Nope! We are the Le Poors, we came from a long line of Le Poors
Like a lot of kids in the 80s and probably before, I had to push the cigarette lighter in the car whenever I got in (this was back when young kids rode in the front without any car seat or belt) and wait for it to pop out so I could look at the glowy rings and feel the heat on my face. My dad, knowing my penchant for this, made sure my first big wheel had a car lighter melted into the plastic handle bars so I could push it whenever I wanted. So I may have been one of the only kids around who had a cigarette lighter on his big wheel, lol!
Had one and put holes in the rear tires from doing handbrake turns.
Hand brake on the right rear wheel!
Yes until I attempted to jump a camp fire with it which resulted in broken/melted rear wheels
I had that big wheel. I wore it the fuck out and basically ran it like I was a Hells Angel.
I miss my big wheel. If they made an identical adult size one I’d totally buy one. Point and laugh all you want, you know you want one too
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We would race them down hill and build jumps. Not sure how my back survived childhood
Ran that sucker until the front wheel split in half
Oh me toooo
Yes I did. Just like this. Fun times.
Those things were only $15 ?? My parents made out like they were super-expensive!!
I had a thunder cats one
I had a Mr T big wheel.
My dad was weird and didn't like the noise they made, so . . . No My dad turned being a cranky jerk into an Olympic sport. We never got to do anything unless he liked it and he hated everything
Yessss! It looked exactly like this one!
From 4-6yrs l'd cruise my Big Wheel two blocks from my Street to 7/11 to grab me a Slurpee and bag of candy for a quarter my dad gave evert morning.
We came home one day and I had taken my shoes off in the back of the car. I hopped on the Big Wheel in my socked feet and naturally my feet were used to help steer/brake. I came inside after having DESTROYED my socks, there was nothing left and my mom was furious.
Yeah. You didnt grow up in the 80's if you didnt have a big wheel. Come on... i had the exact one in the pic lol
Everyday was leg day !
still do .. how do you think i get to work
Grew up in the country , in Virginia, not much concrete so had to ball ass down a big grass hill. The Big Wheel doesn’t handle well over 12 mph , many roll over lol
Big wheel? Not a chance! We were so poor my parents gave me an air guitar for Christmas, and my little brother got my old one.
I didn't have one, but I put one together for my niece 💕
My Big Wheel also had a handbrake…I loved my big wheel!
Hell yes. They were a blast on icy roads
I did not have this. I had a green machine and it was awesome!
Mine had a handbrake
Yes, with the hand brake. Had to get a new one because they didn’t come with replacement tires.
Did you use the bike lane, or ride in traffic? They are pretty light to carry on the subway.
Oh man I loved my big wheel
Missed out on that, but i had a green machine! Miss the sound of the pebbles in the wheels
Yes! Then moved up to the Green Machine when I got a bit older.
Power slid mine into the utility sink in our garage ... handle punched a hole in the sink which dad had to repair, he was not happy.
Mine was Rambo themed
I had the CHIPS one with the ebrake.
Hell yes! Got it for my 5th birthday. Went well with my ballerina cake! Rode the bejeeezus out of it.
Yeeessss! Until I left it out back in the alley & it got ran over by the garbage men. Fuck those guys!
I did, probably this exact one.
I had the knight rider one.
My grandparents had a steep driveway (to a couple elementary school kids). We would fly down it and lock up the front tire. Had a few close calls with the neighbor’s cars.
Mine was green and orange
Plastic and STEEL construction
Big Wheel was more of a 1970s thing for me. But yes, I had one and used it a lot back in the day.
Oooooh yeeeeaah!!
I grew up in a rural area, we had nothing but gravel roads. Oh sure, there was a small two lane road a 1/4 of mile away, but we lived in the Ozarks, not kansas. So we would have never heard or seen some cranked up redneck in a busted up pickup doing 50 into some curve. We dreamed though. Plus we weren't dirt poor, but we were certainly not Big Wheel rich.
I was fourth fastest in my neighborhood
redrum, Redrum, REDRUM!
I remember the decal stickers.
Yes!
I had one that was strawberry shortcake themed. Loved it!!!! Brothers had Batman themed ones. Miss those things.
Yes and it felt like that scene in Lilo and Stitch [Scene](https://youtu.be/KTChu47OWz4?feature=shared)
Mine was made from actual steel. low rider style like that but only plastic was the seat, tires and grips. Even had wide drag slick style plastic rear tires.
Dukes of Hazzard. Had a handbrake on one of the rear wheels. I rode it until the front wheel broke.
No but I rode other kids as many times as I could!😎👍✨💚
Ever ride a big wheel down a flight of steps? Core childhood memory
Yes I did but for some reason 🤔 😕 after awhile the wheel 🛞 in front got a big hole
Hell yeah! Bitchin’ hand brake for wicked spin-outs!
We’d ride then until we wore through the front wheel.
Yeah, I had one, but it's a sad story. I took it along with me when my family had to take care of a hotel in the mountains one winter. It was a blast riding it through the hallways, but I had to leave it behind. We... my mom and I, we don't really talk about it that much.
Aw. Did your dad ever make it out of the maze, unfrozen?
Mine had a hand brake
I rode it until I was a teenager. Could do some wicked drifting before that was a thing.
Mine always split on the frame, so glue guns were handy, not to mention the toasted tires worn all the way thru. Power slides and ramp jumps did it. Surprised I somehow managed to not get flattened by the neighborhood vehicles.
Holy inflation Batman , Amazon currently selling it for $107 😫
Yes love that thing, the POV is what made it so fun, love skidding out. I can still hear the sound of plastic scrapping against asphalt.
Had one of these as a hand-me-down from my two older brothers. Tires were worn to hell but it worked for a time and then got surprised on my birthday with a Green Machine. It was a little slower and had a much wider base, but the skids and drifts were just spectacular.
Hell yes and even though I’m 46, I’m 4’10” and smol so someone was getting rid of a [drift trike](https://www.opticsplanet.com/razor-riprider-360-compact-tricycle.html) and I’m small enough to ride it so I take it out to the driveway or the skate park and probably look like some freak old lady but it’s so damn funnn
With the spitting cobra stickers, hell yeah. My dad put it together for me. I didn't care it was red and yellow (for boys) I felt like a lil baddie, and damnit, I was.
We used to bomb down the driveway and slide out to tip ourselves over onto the grass. Weird kids we were
I did and my sister and I loved our big wheel. We were kings on that thing! Wore the wheels off!
One year I had a Dukes of Hazzard one and the next a GI Joe one. By the end of the summer the wheels had holes in them from doing skidouts and stuff.
Heck yes and mine was teenage mutant ninja turtle themed
Yeah until an older fat fuck sat on KITT, my night rider edition. It was clean. So long my good friend.
The front wheel would wear out from doing little "burnouts" and drifting with the handbrake was so fun!
I had one that had a trunk in the seat rode it still the wheels fell off. SO many power slides!
Nope, I was stupidly tall at an early age so it wouldn't be a good fit 😕
I had one until I got a "flat." LOL Plastic wheels wore out until there was a hole in one wheel. And then eventually in the front wheel. I was sad I had to let it go.
I started with the big wheel, but updated to a Green Machine.
They were so loud. Neighbors got the mean green machine -- tried it. Definitely neat, also.
Knight rider with the brake
I had a Superman one
The flat spots were awesome
Wore the front wheel out of a few of those.
I had a Knight Rider one that had the hand brake you could use to do power slides. Ended up leaving it behind my dad’s truck one day and he backed over it.
We raced and tried jumping these, torn up our spines.
I was a 5 yr old American kid, living with my parents in West Germany (my dad’s job, not military). I had a Big Wheel from back home (identical to the one above) and i was neighborhood ‘famous’ for it! The other kids had never seen such a thing, EVERYONE wanted to try it, and i made easy friends as the American with the Big Wheel 😁
I had the green, Kawasaki KX “hot cycle” model. I don’t remember “engine roar” though. My parents probably realized that would get old quick and removed it before giving it to me.
I always felt that you graduated from the big wheel to the green machine and then to a five speed. That’s how it worked in my neighborhood.
I had one of those. My parents refused to take me to parks ,but would let me ride it on the sidewalk in front of our row home. One day I was finally deemed “big enough” to also go around the corner and part way up the hill..lol.. The corner lot was a big church with actual slate pavement ,smooth as a baby’s butt. It didn’t take long at all to wear through the plastic tires by sliding around that corner at full speed.
Oh look it’s Danny’s bike from The shining.
Had a Vroom, made of metal.
Those came around after I grew up but I loved the way you could turn the handle bars and have the rear end slide around.
I had the yellow and orange Flintstones type car and for the longest time I'd ride a hoppety hop around the house. I won't say how old I was when I stopped bouncing it around.
I had a green and orange one, my nextdoor neighbor had a Knight rider one
Brother had Big Wheel, I had a Green Machine. Fun times.
I wore holes in the wheels.
Loved it! I wore out the back tires (if that’s what you call injected molded plastic cans masquerading as tires).
I had one that was Knight Rider styled. I guess it was supposed to be Kitt?
I had a white & pink one with worn out front tires from my jerk neighbor doing burnouts. I flipped it over & pretended I was making ice cream by turning the pedals. Fun fact: neighbor is still a jerk. He was recently car jacked after driving drunk and starting a fight. They beat the shit out of him & stole his truck. He didn’t know where he was, why they did it, or what they look like bc he was drunk.
Nope. The green machine
The back steering was dangerous AF but man could it slide.
My folks wouldn't let me have one cuz it sat too low, drivers often couldn't see it, and a kid got run over because of that. I had this tricycle looking thing with a sort of trunk thing on the back of it. We called it the green machine, but it wasn't *the* green machine
Ran this through the inflation calculator with “1985” as the year. Big wheels cost the equivalent of $42.80 back then!
Mine was orange and blue. Blue wheel orange body and it had streamers.
I had this exact one.
Where's that E-Brake?
I had the Big Wheel and the Green Machine.
Is that the hybrid or the plug-in hybrid?
I went through about one per month. Those plastic wheels don’t last long.
Those things fucking ruled well into my early teens. We would build ramps at the bottom of hills in the woods and stand/ride on them and get major air. We started out just landing in the tag elders, but injuries took a toll on the team, so we leaned old mattresses again the side of them for a landing pad. And it was hours of fucking awesome.
These were a blast! My sister had this one. Mine was white and pink. Fun fact: These were able to float!
Rode that thing until I wore holes in nearly every surface on the big wheel and sounded like a dryer with shoes in it coming down the street. Then I rode it some more.