what was the name of that toy that was basically a large bike seat on some rollerskate wheels with handlebars that you had to move side to side to get it to go

Wiggle Car

you sat on it and propped your feet up on the middle of the handlebars which were connected to the front set of wheels. the handlebars went out a ways and came back a ways and then you moved them back and forth to propel the thing. they sold it on tv and the seats may have come in different colors but mostly they were red.

what was this thing called and where can i look at some pictures of it?

are you sure it wasn't green?

big wheel you mean?

nah if this is what a Wiggle Car is, it's not that

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GPTLWC.01-A161KJFXGMNJBI._SCLZZZZZZZ_V64959841_.jpg

This sounds insanely volatile.

Big Wheel had pedals on the front wheel

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nah it wasn't a big wheel, a big wheel is a plastic tricycle with one big front wheel that everyone had and everyone remembered the name of, unlike this specific toy that i have in mind

i know what you're talking about. it was just a bike seat with wheels

i had one of these things! i don't know what the heck the name was

yes! all it was was basically a bike seat on those thick rollerskate/skateboard wheels. with handlebars.

shakey it was not that green thing (although i do remember those things, i remember some kids that had them who used to beat each other up a lot in the yard)

the patented name may or may not have been alliterative

Are you talking about Sit n Spin?

I am imagining something seriously, terribly dangerous. Have you tried one of these? If so, how many times were you injured?

http://www.abledata.com/product_images/images/018318.jpg
^^^this thing

YES THE ROLLER RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also came in red

http://www.abledata.com/product_images/images/05A0088.jpg

I remember these, never used one, but they used show up as the parting gifts on Nickelodeon game shows like Double Dare or Finders Keepers, IIRC.

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don't let your friend tie a rope to this thing and pull you on his bike with it!

Face JERKY!

anyway yeah they were dangerous. the first time i ever got stitches was when i was roller racing this thing down a very slightly graded hill and it hit a pebble and sent me flying chin-first into the asphalt and i ran home carrying the roller racer and crying the whole way

yeah wtf that thing does not look safe at all!!

I have never seen that thing in my life. I would've assumed it was some sort of warehouse dolly.

In a child's warehouse, obv.

god the green machine ruled

GUYS I HAD A PARTY ON FRIDAY AND WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION. WE GAVE THE GUY WHO REMEMBERED THEY WERE CALLED ROLLER RACERS A MEDAL. THEN WE MADE UP A SONG CALLED "ROLLER RACER DUI MOTHERFUCKER".

Also we pooled our collective experiences to determine:

A) Roller Racers could under no circumstances go uphill
B) they only worked in the street and thus were the dumbest thing marketed to children

In fact re: A few of us had attempted many times in our youth to build up speed (hahahahaha) on them going into an incline just to show ourselves, hey, looky, but the only thing we ever got out of it was a lot of our flesh on the pavement.

Elbows up, side to side?