Re: "It's just how we rolled"
That's a great pic!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
I had a Chopperoo (found a picture on the web) by Marx. This thing had a chain drive from the peddles to the rear wheels. All the other kids I knew had Big Wheels. This Chopperoo was the talk of the neighborhood, because not only was it REALLY fast (I never had any trouble beating other kids with their Big Wheels, the peddle-to-spocket ratio made this VERY fast), but because it was RWD, I could do a wheelie. And with practice, I could ride the wheelie for 10 or more feet. Cool stuff. All the other kids were in awe. And from a high speed, you could stop peddling, and then throw it sideways, something you couldn't do with a Big Wheel, until years later, when I think they came out with a rear brake lever on the Big Wheel.
The only down side of the Chopperoo was sometimes when I really went really fast, it would throw the chain off the sprocket. I would pull over, flip the Chopperoo over, re-attach the chain, and be on my way.
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