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LaLa Bikes

  • 07-12-2004 11:49am
    #1
    AudsCB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Please tell me someone remembers LaLa Bikes.
    They came out a year or so after LoLo balls.
    A three wheeled bike that you stood on. Front foot was on a moving pedal, that you used for steering and the back foot was between the back two wheels, on a brake.
    You had to pull two handles to make it go forward.

    Please tell me I am not going mad!!!!
    :o


Comments

  • #2
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I can't see how that would work.


  • #3
    AudsCB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭AudsCB


    well, unless you had the arms of Jean Claude Van Damn (sp?) it didn't really. The handles were attatched to the back wheels with wire cable and it worked on the same principle of a wind-up toy.


    ....Except you were trying to propel your own body weight!! :rolleyes:


  • #4
    martyc5674
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    AudsCB wrote: »
    well, unless you had the arms of Jean Claude Van Damn (sp?) it didn't really. The handles were attatched to the back wheels with wire cable and it worked on the same principle of a wind-up toy.


    ....Except you were trying to propel your own body weight!! :rolleyes:

    I remember them. In fact I had one!!
    Great yokes but impossible to go uphill on them, the front fork on mine used keep bending.
    Mine was identical to this
    http://www.decomusic.nl/foto%27s/op%20wielen/lala%20bike01.gif

    Marty. (oh I know it's an old thread..came up in a google search for lala bike)


  • #5
    Wonda-Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Wonda-Boy


    I had 2 of them, absolute death traps there were. I ended up sitting on it and getting pushed around on them.


  • #6
    martyc5674
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    Wonda-Boy wrote: »
    I had 2 of them, absolute death traps there were. I ended up sitting on it and getting pushed around on them.


    My front fork used occasionally collapse... It was formed from a flat sheet IIRC


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  • #7
    Wonda-Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Wonda-Boy


    No wonder they were not that popular....so easy to fall off a break an arm. But they were good craic all the same.


  • #8
    darleenlm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭darleenlm


    I had a Lala bike, when i was young and still have it now, im 40, my neice and nephews love it, my cats too

    So easy to use, i loved doing tricks on it, i still would if my feet were not to big for the front foot break, great fun


  • #9
    Wonda-Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Wonda-Boy


    LOL, The straps gone off it are they.

    I had two of them red and blue, one for me and the brother. But he hated the thing....


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