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To: dfwgator

BOL. Our sons kept their big wheels after we moved to our current home in the late 1970's. We didn't find out why until later. They would take them up the hill that started as they went out of our driveway. They went up 350' and 350 yards on the road on a big wheel.

One of them stayed down on the flat of the street and told the other on their walkie talkies, when the road was clear. Then, the one on the big wheel would haul ashes all the way down. Their way of stopping was to run the big wheel into the curb and go head over heels over the big wheel on to a neighbor's yard.

They built ramps like the one in your picture for their dirt bikes on a vacant 40 acres behind the house.

They had an arroyo right across the road for dirt biking, hunting small game and just being out there. Sometimes they bike back in with pup tents and spent the night. That stopped when a mountain lion moved into the area.

114 posted on 08/15/2014 10:45:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anybody, who thinks they can win by becoming the Left has already lost.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’ve always been convinced that Big Wheels pic is photoshopped.

I have enough experience jumping the things to know that it’s impossible to exert enough leverage (ie leaning as far back as possible and pulling back hard on the handles) during a jump to keep the thing from following a ballistic arc following departure from the ramp. At the point seen in that picture the thing should already be nosing over ...


209 posted on 08/15/2014 11:46:20 AM PDT by tanknetter
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