I thought this old ad was worth sharing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkyXsGeFe48&feature=player_embedded#at=15
I thought this old ad was worth sharing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkyXsGeFe48&feature=player_embedded#at=15
I want one!
Too bad you'd have your kids taken away if you gave them one nowadays.
Bikes were safer back then, you didn't need a helmet.
Here I was thinking that looping the bike was half the fun of learning to keep the front end up.
My bad.
I you tried to make that product today you would be sued so quick your head would spin. 
Next to the steel tipped lawn darts we used to play with, this seems relatively safe.
I lived through this era - I want to go back! 
I like the kid riding the wheelie in his bare feet. LOL
Wham-o. What a great name for a company.
We didn't need no steenkin wheelie bars. We had balance.
childhood just used to be better..
I miss my Green Machine: http://youtu.be/mrzIAGM1Xxk
i had a Green Machine... it got broke when my dad took it down the hill that my mom had just yelled at me for taking it down.. he spun it into the curb and broke it in half- there may have been alcohol involved... it was replaced with a wicked red one that had rear wheels that swiveled...
That was great.
In reply to Woody:
Pete over at Hyper-Performance is making reproductions of the wheelie bars.
He makes some other cool vintage Schwinn repro parts too.
lawyers would have a field day w/ this today
plus one for the Wham-o name
Trans_Maro wrote: I want one! Too bad you'd have your kids taken away if you gave them one nowadays. Bikes were safer back then, you didn't need a helmet.
Not everything about the '70's sucked. 
OK, the wheelie bar was from the '60's, but I wasn't. 
kazoospec wrote: Next to the steel tipped lawn darts we used to play with, this seems relatively safe.
Still have a set 
(though I was born in the mid 80's)
I was about 8 years old when that commercial came out. My friends and I thought they were dumb - like training wheels for the wheelie impaired.
Little Red Wagon FTW, however!
Wham-O is still going strong Website
Out of all the things listed, only the Green Machine still exists in relatively unmolested form, and the 20" wheel one will handle a full sized adult!
I pulled a wheelie on a rented beach cruiser at the beach this summer. It went a little too high, so I had to step off the back. No big deal right? Except I also rented one of these!
Ooops!
Rob_Mopar wrote:Trans_Maro wrote: I want one! Too bad you'd have your kids taken away if you gave them one nowadays. Bikes were safer back then, you didn't need a helmet.
$10 says that kid had a broken tailbone...
beans wrote:Rob_Mopar wrote:$10 says that kid had a broken tailbone...Trans_Maro wrote: I want one! Too bad you'd have your kids taken away if you gave them one nowadays. Bikes were safer back then, you didn't need a helmet.
Nah, it's not as bad as it looks. The butt side of those things is hollow/blow molded- collapses under pressure sorta like a thick milk jug. Actually works really well as a cushion, though it might only do it once.
beans wrote:Rob_Mopar wrote:$10 says that kid had a broken tailbone...Trans_Maro wrote: I want one! Too bad you'd have your kids taken away if you gave them one nowadays. Bikes were safer back then, you didn't need a helmet.
nah... kids were built tougher back then...
LOL I did that and more on my big wheel. Hell we learned the physics of sliding sideways with ours as kids. Didn't realize it was physics but hey, we learned it!
Thanks for the Ad woody, that was great!
Yep, great ad. Here's another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX9iRKrVvU
Equipped with racing brake!!
This beach kid worships Wham-O. Let us pray:
"Flat flip flies straight. Tilted flip curves. Have fun, Experiment!"
I love my 110g Malibu. Great yard disc in light air.
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