I always wonder what ever happened to the kid launched by the motor scooter speeding this up to max speed in this early internet gif.
Legend has it he’s still flying to this day. The Artemis II mission is secretly tasked with searching for him.
Remember when Voyager 2 lost contact? …
I’m not a warrior, I’ve just lost the memory of what happened last time, and all the numbers after 8 and the word for those flapping flying things that sit on power lines. People keep talking about Traumatic Brain Injury. I think that’s my favourite punk band?
Who are you? Where’s the regular nurse?
If anyone knows of one that still exists in Ohio please let me know. Hell, I’d travel to PA, WV, or Kentucky to play on one (Indiana can kiss my shiney metal ass)
Hell yeah. Fuck Indiana!
It’s, it’s just so flat
The version we have over here, has a static disk in the center that allows you to keep accelerating while you are on it.
Sadly they tend to be built in sandpits causing them to seize up earlier that they should.We never had these when I grew up, but we did have these:
These are also a classic, there was always a rumor that one of the bigger kids managed to swing around the top, yet never any proof… There was also a variant that had a single attachment point at the top and could swing in all directions:
swing around the top
i don’t think it’s physically possible but as a kid, the idea of that scared the shit out of me. we used to swing each other with my friend and once swung me “too hard” and i started crying and become a bit more suspicious of him. (ofc he did not mean bad and he immediately stopped, he was (still is! although we’ve departed cos my family had to move) a great guy, although he might not fully understand why i’m so scared of something that’s actually so much fun)
i had many of such fears. of things that would be physically impossible but i saw them somewhere in a cartoon or someone say a joke and suddenly i realized that while it was probably a joke I don’t know that it can’t be possible to some extent
people think that to be a nerd is a choice, but sometimes it’s the only way to stay sane.
re was always a rumor that one of the bigger kids managed to swing around the top, yet never any proof…
IIRC the was some pop science thing (possibly Myth Busters) that proved that swinging over the top isn’t actually possible. Shame!
The little ones were worse in my experience. They tended to turn better on the axles and with couple guys spinning on the outside you could really get them going, then have the people riding move to the inside and it blue-shifts.
They’re like most of us. Always only misused or neglected.
Look, if someones going to wind a 100+ foot strap to the wheel and latch it to their tow hook, I’m going to hop in… they went through a lot of effort. What’s the worst that can happen?
I loved these so much as a kid. Genuinely one of the most fun things to do
Got my first 8 stitches from playing on one of these. Lost my balance sitting on the bar, flipped over, and smacked my head into the base platform. Still have the scar.
You’d think the bigger ones would be worse than the small ones, but you’d be wrong. 🤮
