I've found my coaster uni!



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'The Green Machine!'
(http://www.huffybikes.com/products/greenmachine.html)

Chances are it's the same hub used by 'SWAT'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/SWAT) on their 'coaster uni'
(http://evil.linuxfreak.ca/nymw2004/coaster.avi) (right click/save
target for video), except this one has a 20" tire and brake. I'm going
to Toy's R Us tonight to check it out. I'd have to either modify or get
a new frame. Though if it's from the same company as the SWAT coaster,
the main caps/bearings will probably be too wide for, say, a Yuni
frame.

Someone from SWAT - what exactly did your wheel come off of?

Looks like retail price is $100 USD, but I found one on 'ebay'
(http://tinyurl.com/6osr7) for $65.

I'm so excited!


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in the fifties (my! how time goes by!)
we, kids, used to have such machines (whose name could be losely
translated to "rowing-cycles")

they went out of fashion .. probably because they proved dangerous for
kids.
(may be this model succeeded in being more innocuous
but may be it's just an illustration of the principle "if you wait long
enough the same error will pop up again")

bear


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It was something very close to that, but it had more of a traditional
handlebar system.

Ours had brake bosses, but I decided to be totally retarded and cut them
off.

I believe it was called a "mirco mini spin" or something like that.

I found it in the trash...so I can't really remember.

(Build cost tally- $1.09) :D


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OH the Green Machine is -great-! A friend of mine has one, and it's much
fun! We ride it down his extremely steep driveway, then turn really
sharply at the end and either do a 180 and keep going, or just flip
over.


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They're a store, so I imagine they have more than one. But now I see
that they only ship through Greyhound, plus charge $11 to package it.


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Does anybody remember a pedal vehicle called the X-15? These came out
probably in the late 1960s and were probably common in neighborhoods
across America, named after the rocket plane of the same name.

They had pedals on the front wheel (a precursor to the Big Wheels of the
70s), and also the two sticks for steering the rear wheels. Who knows,
these new toys might be made using the same old tooling from back
then!

I do not know if the old X-15s had a freewheel or not. Just wondering if
anyone else remembers them.


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johnfoss wrote:
> *Does anybody remember a pedal vehicle called the X-15? These came out
> probably in the late 1960s.....*


No.


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So are you speaking for everybody? Because I still remember it...

Or should everybody who doesn't remember chime in as well, like "posting
'Me too' like some braindead AOLer?"


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Toys R Us has it for $80.

I called Huffy Replacement Parts and they have just the front wheel (no
cranks or pedals) for $32 total (includes shipping), however, they won't
sell it to you unless you actually have the item already.... but you
could go to your nearest toy store and get the part number and serial
number off it and claim that you had it.


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johnfoss wrote:
> *So are you speaking for everybody? Because I still remember it...
>
> Or should everybody who doesn't remember chime in as well, like
> "posting 'Me too' like some braindead AOLer?" *


Ouch, point taken, sorry. :(


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