| If you were born after the 80's you may have | | | | small rear wheels with a low seat |
| no idea what the original big wheel tricycle is all | | | | 2. It had a really low ride - kids loved this because |
| about. However if you were born in the 60's or | | | | they felt an exaggerated speed. Parents and a |
| 70's, you may not need an introduction to the Big | | | | few consumer groups loved it because the bike |
| Wheel. Before 1969, there was only one kind of | | | | was very safe. You couldn't trip it over, if you |
| tricycle, the one with 3 wheels and all of them | | | | tried to! All in all, the The Big Wheels were an |
| were more or less the same size. However, in | | | | absolute blast in the 1970's. |
| 1969, a person by the name of Louis Marx | | | | So what's the 'ORIGINAL' all about? |
| introduced a new kind of tricycle. | | | | Today, there are many different models of Big |
| A contrastingly different feature of the Louis | | | | Wheeled Tricycles. There are many models |
| Marx Tricycle was that it had a much larger front | | | | produced by kids' bicycle manufacturers such as |
| wheel compared to the other two. The other | | | | Razor and Huffy. All these are 'Big Wheels', |
| difference was that the two rear wheels were | | | | however, that original model produced by Marx, is |
| much smaller than those of a regular tricycle, so | | | | still known as the Original Big Wheel Tricycle. |
| the seat was very much lower than a regular | | | | Although the original company stopped |
| trike. | | | | manufacturing it, a model similar to the original |
| What this meant was that: | | | | tricycle is being re-manufactured today and is |
| | | | available for purchase through various toy |
| 1. It had a really cool look - Big Front Wheel and | | | | distributors. |