http://renewnorthfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Schwinn%20Stingray%20green%203-speed.jpg
except mine was one-speed, had coaster brakes, didn't have that flag pole on the back wheel, and usually had a baseball glove on its front handlebars (on the right side).
it was a hand-me-down from my older neighbor, ricky reid, who on a different occasion threw a spark plug at me from which i still have a scar in my eyebrow. when i couldn't fit on it anymore, i passed it along to younger neighbor craig conroy.
also, my banana seat was yellow.
<3 <3 <3 <3
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome shifter on that thing.
My first was a Schwinn Tornado with coaster brakes that looked more or less like this:
http://bmxmuseum.com/image/schwinn_copy3_lg.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.retropedalcars.com/images/Marx-Big-Wheel.jpg
― rrrobyn, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
RESPECT MA AUTHORITAH!
― snoball, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel as though I should explain that statement a little... http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/characters/cartman/CartmanCop.gif
― snoball, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yup, it's a south park quote
― dan m, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2536530875_01ba939556.jpg?v=0
Mine was similar to this except with one of those streamlined convertible top tubes.
In earlier times, there was also, regrettably, this:
http://www.pauldavidson.net/wp-content/themes/wfme/images/entries/bigwheel.jpg
I loved Bo and Luke.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
It was a little Raleigh, probably made in 1987 or 88. Most children's bikes seem very fragile, like you could bend them with your bare hands, but this one was as solid as a brick! My brother and I loved it so much that we kept riding it even when we were 11 or 12 years old and could barely fit on it.
― Dan I., Friday, 11 July 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ Raleigh bikes of the 70's and 80's seemed like they were built out of girders or something. I had a beaten-to-hell mustard yellow Boxer, ostensibly a small bike, but it weighed a ton.
― snoball, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
there was a kid on the next block who had a regular big wheel and a green machine! and he was an only child!
it turned out his dad was a mafioso
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost to myself) ...but then the BMX craze came along and suddenly bike frame looked like they were made out of bent paperclips.
― snoball, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL
my youngest brother had a big wheel that was green but it wasn't a green machine... i think it was connected to a super hero or a tv show or something. maybe it was a hulk big wheel?? xpost
― rrrobyn, Friday, 11 July 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
just saw a replica of my first bike down the block
awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link