Sunday, August 1, 2010

Day One Giveaway Question

Every day the Helping Hudson team will be asking you to comment on a question.
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You must include your name in the comment to be eligible for the prize.
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Today's question is:
What were your favourite wheels when you were a child?

We look forward to reading your answer, and please remember to come back tomorrow
for the next question and to find out who won.
Sorry, as per Stampin' Up! Australia rules, only Australian residents are eligible for prizes.

40 comments:

  1. I had my brothers hand-me-down go-cart, it was red with lots of rust but boy did it go! Congrats on the launch ladies! It must be so exciting for you. xx Amanda Reddicliffe

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  2. I had a large three wheeler bike which had a "step" between the rear wheels. I used to stand on the step & use the bike as a scooter, zipping down our driveway - until the day I ran off the concrete & landed in Mum's cactus collection!!! OUCH...

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  3. My most memorable wheels wasnt my first bike but my second. I got a "Dragsta" yes it was a boys bike but I loved it. There was a gear lever on the middle bar to change gears ad a long silver shiny seat. I decorated it with crepe paper to eneter our city's 21st birthday and I won 1st prize, a $50 voucher for our toy store, which I got myself a donkey kong game and my sister a barbie.

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  4. I remember the accessories more than the bike!! Gotta love spokey dokes and those streamers in the handlebars... *sigh*

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  5. When my brothers went to school I would sneak onto their "Green Machine" and try to do the tricks I would see them do......unfortunately I was not successful and had many grazes!

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  6. I did'nt have much as a child, then went into care, so had even less...(no sobs, please..it makes who I am today..) I loved a windmill wheel that moved when I blew it..dont know how many times I hyperventilated making it work!! (I still smile when I see a child with one..) Jo Weedon

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  7. We had a little pee wee 50 motorbike (i was like 7), and used to ride it in the empty block next to us, until my friend hopped on and crashed it into the next block alongs fence, causing a bit of damage lol. Oh and Danielle i remember spokey dokes how funny. Good luck girls on the site and I hope the fundraising goes through the roof. xx

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  8. Well before I could ride my first bike my Barbie Campervan was the bomb!! Completely pink, detachable 4WD for those day time adventures and room for Ken to play happy campers! (; Good luck girls on the site and can't wait to see Hudson dashing around on his walker xox

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  9. I never owned my own wheels but borrowed everyone elses (no shortage of boys that lived in our street). I remember my brother and I making 'jumps' up our long driveway and riding dragster bikes with seats made out of purple glitter vinyl and then I progressed to skateboarding. It was the early 70's after all!!

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  10. my favourite wheels were a pair of roller blades I got one Christmas. The present had been under the tree for a day or two, but it was a weird shaped box. I was so angry as I thought I wasnt getting roller blades, which is all I had wanted. Then on Christmas morning when I opened them I was soo soo soo happy! never got good at them though!
    Gardenia

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  11. Rollerskates - yes I am showing my age, but they were my pride and joy and I loved them.
    Diana

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  12. my favourite wheels growing up were the kids 'strap on skates' - my brother and I were not to fond of the kids next door but we loved to go over to 'visit' and roller skate in their driveway.. Amanda H

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  13. I loved putting my favourite bear into my brothers yellow Tonka dump truck and racing him around the garden, in fact I think I played with it more than he did! Last Christmas my Mum bought the exact same Tonka truck for my son - except he puts his toy Kangaroo in it and races around the back yard with it! Some things never change :)

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  14. I had a little green and black tricycle that I named "Jake" that I rode all over our farm, but my hands-down favoutite was my little red wagon named "Sally" that carried everything I held dear to me.....

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  15. My favourites were roller skates. I remember my older brother offering to teach me how to skate. He took me to a roller skating rink and was proudly showing his little sister off, holding my hand, helping me around the rink. That was until I fell over, and pulled him over too! He wasn't quite so keen to help out after that Lol :)

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  16. My favourite wheels were on my first bike - it was pink and had a baby seat on the back for my doll! Just loved it :) Claire

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  17. I loved my purple and white BMX bike that I had when I was growing up (my first REAL bike!)

    Fond memories!

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  18. When I was younger my favourite wheels were the ones on the base of a blue plush dog that I used to push around. I loved that dog (I only got rid of it a few years ago when it completely fell apart). When I was about two and a half we moved onto a boat to live and my dad took the wheels off as it would scratch the varnish - I still miss those first wheels!

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  19. My sister, who is 5 years older, used to put in me in her plastic red dolls pram and take me everywhere, when I was a baby. I love looking at those photos because I can really see that we had a great time and that she loves me.

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  20. My favourite wheels when I was a little tacker was my Skateboard! I first had one of those skinny plastic "banana" boards, then thought I was so cool when I got my first proper "fat" board! My grandparents used to live on quite a steep street, and my friends and I used to skate down the middle of the road from top to bottom! Not to mention the home made ramps & jumps we'd make!

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  21. I was 'such a girl' as a little girl so my favourite wheels were on my doll's pram. I can still remember the excitement of finding it under the tree one Christmas...complete with a baby doll which I named Timothy! Not sure why...it just looked like a Timothy! Loved the pram and loved the doll.

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  22. My purple skateboard was my pride and joy until i had a rather nasty encounter with a steep hill and my dad broke it in half to prevent me hurting myself again. Needless to say i was more upset about the skateboard than the injuries so my mum made him replace it. :)

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  23. Roller skates! The old strap on variety. My sisters and I used to put them in our bike baskets and ride out of town to the recreation oval which had a concrete angled cycle track much like the modern velodrome today (without a roof). Put our skates on and do lap after lap round and round the rec ground until we were starving or dying for the loo, and had to jump on our bikes and pedal home again!

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  24. I loved this purple tricycle thing we had - it has one wheel at the front then had a little trailer seat type thing at the back that I used to put toys in (or occasionally my little sisters!) Love reading all these 'wheels' memories!

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  25. I don't remember too much about my own wheels so a story about my youngest sons first bike.
    He got a racy looking bronze one with training wheels and streamers from the handle bars.His birthday is in August and all he HAD to have was a noise for his bike!The "noise" was a blue box affair and when you twisted it it make a revving sound.With a lot of imagination it did sound like a motor bike.....Hahahahahaha.

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  26. The best wheels for me were wheels on my Dad's motor bike.The were a shiny spoke wheels that looked like they were a blur even when he wasn't going fast.Even at a young age I was fascinated because they always looked like they were going backwards.
    Good luck with the fundraising!
    Christine

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  27. My favourite set of wheels was my first two wheeler blue bike I got for Christmas one year. Mum and Dad put an envelope under the tree with a ball of string in it and I had to follow the string all through the house and out the back door to find it! I remember learning to ride it at Rotto and crying coz it was just 'too hard'! LOL.

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  28. My favourite wheels were on my white Malvern Star 2 wheeler bike I got for my 8th birthday. They were much better than the 3 wheeler I had prior to getting the Malvern Star. The three wheeler had NO brakes.... and we lived on quite a steep hill!

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  29. Hi
    My favourite wheels were a little red tractor and seeing I grew up on farms was the ideal ride!
    My big brother though ( 6 years older) broke the steering column a number of times (can't remember how many - too long ago!! lol), which resulted in big tears!! However my darling Dad managed to fix it everytime!!! My 2nd favourite wheels would be my white boot style roller skates, which I would skate around the cow (milking) shed when it was free of manure!!!!!!
    Thanks Michelle Steen (hope this posts this time)

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  30. lol my favourite wheels as a child were on my adorable twin pram! It was a big old fashioned English Pedigree pram! Maroon and white it was, with 4 big wheels! I LOVED that pram.

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  31. My fave wheels were the "wheels on the bus" that took me to primary school..I loved school so much and I felt so grown up waving bye to my Mum and going on that bus with all the big kids!!
    Coincidentally now Im a Secondary school teacher!!

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  32. My favourite wheels were my Barbie Rollerskates!! They strapped right up my ankle (you remember the ones!!) and had pink glittery wheels. THAT must be where my passion for 'bling' started!!! It's all becoming clear now!!

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  33. I like most children had a three wheeler bike, but mine had a little tailer attached to the back which had a tipping mechanism which I enjoyed carting wood around into the wood box for the fire during winter.

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  34. my favourite wheels were prehaps the ones I lost - my training wheels. I was so scared when mum took them off. But nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment I had when I realised I could do it!!!
    Kimberley

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  35. My favourite wheels was an old car on the farm that we pretended to drive and change gears in. Of course it didnt go anywhere but was fun anyway.

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  36. You gotta love the flower seat with the matching flower basket on the front and of course the coordinating spokey dokeys - even back then the colours mattered!

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  37. I had a Chopper bike when I was younger .... an upgrade from an old fashioned one that Dad painted with the leftover paint from a bathroom reno yes my bike was blue and white! I thought I was so cool on my new Chopper bike :)

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  38. I too am remembering the old strap on roller skates - my favourite wheels - until my brother used then to create a skateboard for himself...

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  39. I had adjustable strap-on rollerskates too! they basically were a metal sole that had 4 size settings, and little leather flaps on each side of the foot that had laces in them. You would strap them on top of your runners and roll away! (or in my case roll down the drive-way into the tree on the nature strip!) .. ahh, once a clutz, always a clutz! :)

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  40. My favourite wheels would have to have been my pink strap over barbie skates

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