Chances are it’s the same hub used by SWAT on their coaster uni (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 for $65.
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”)
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.
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.
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.
