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Short Suck 58: Roaring! Spinning! Winning! The Rise of the Big Wheel

Short Suck 58: Roaring! Spinning! Winning! The Rise of the Big Wheel

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Before helmets, hoverboards, and helicopter parenting… there was the Big Wheel. Louis Marx and Company turned a low-slung plastic tricycle into one of the most iconic - and unexpectedly controversial - toys in American history. From glorious downhill drifts and neighborhood wipeouts to lawsuits, broken bones, and adult underground Big Wheel racing leagues, this is the wild story of the toy that taught generations of kids that danger and fun were sometimes the exact same thing.

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