I remember you only went to he ER if you need the bone set back in place. I had friends who broke their collar bone , used a friend's butter fly figure 8 brace and never went to the doc...... We were all tougher back then 💪
When my friends & I got sick of playing Lawn Darts the "right way," we made up a new game that involved launching a lawn dart straight up into the air as high as we could, and then everyone running. You "won" as long as you didn't get impaled.
For those who don't know, Chance has been making ferris wheels, little trains, roller coasters, and other amusement rides you might see at a state fair since the 60's. They also made airport shuttles and buses that look like old streetcars.
LMAO! That looks like something Wile E. Coyote would buy from the Acme Pogo Stick Company to chase Roadrunner with... Before it malfunctions and Pogo Sticks him off a cliff.
Is this the thing that caused that energy crisis way back when gas station lines got really long and people got into fistfights at the pump because they couldn't find enough gas to fill their pogos?
yes, at that time, the government and the media told us we were going to run out of 'energy', we were going to run out of all fuel sources. Also in the late 70's, we had a few bad winters, and the media told us there was another ice age coming.
Wow of course you liberals had to mentioned the energy crisis because muh 70s, stop reading Vox or something, the decade was great and never was all about the energy crisis or something
its a common misconception that the higher the octane a fuel is, the more volatile it is. one thing I've learned while training to become a power engineer is, that's simply not the case, higher octane fuels are able to withstand much higher compression ratios without prematurely combusting in the combustion chamber. they are designed to burn efficiently in large 4 stroke sports car engines with high compression. thus, cheaper lower octane fuels contain more stored energy, but they burn way too quick to run efficiently in engines with large strokes, like corvette engines. so the hop rod probably wouldn't even run at all on 98 octane fuel, and if it does, it would run extremely rich, and dump the majority of the unburnt fuel out the exhaust port. the compression is too low.
I'm with the Indiana State Museum and I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the Hop Rod commercial footage. We are going to put one on display and would like to be able to show the commercial with it. I can be contacted at llorance@indianamuseum.org. Thanks.
I have one and yes, the “gas cap” is spring loaded. Spills fuel all over the cuffs of your pants and it catches fire. It runs on white gas (Colman lantern fuel). The spark is unreliable on mine. I plan on vamping it some day with a model engine spark plug, an ignition coil, and an accelerometer to make it fire at the right time. The arches of my feet are still messed up from trying to get it to work right 30 years ago.
@@Terry_Baker There is no rotational momentum bro. Theres no crankshaft. No flywheel. Nothing but your body to trigger the firing cycle. If you jump off, the firing cycle will stop.
@@Terry_Baker I dont give a shit if it's a two stroke, or a four stroke. Engines will not run unless they have rotational momentum, and or (in this perspective) lateral motion to continue a firing cycle on an internal combustion engine.
@@Terry_Baker So just stop dude. Your story is bullshit. Your acting like it was acting like an unmanned jackhammer going out of control. Stop lying, and making up bullshit.
So they quit making these because of liability, people getting hurt. Probably mostly their own fault not paying attention what they're doing. Like most people in this ad, just standing on it getting bounced around, not actually controlling it. Banned toys like clackers, the 2 balls on a string, and of course law darts and later 3 wheelers. Hell, i'm surprised chess and checkers haven't been banned because of choking hazard. I think these are cool and should still be available, not really riskier than skateboards, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. Even kind of lame compared to the new generation of high power x-treme pogo's using elastic rubber bands. Hop on.
The commercial specifically says all you have to do is hang on and the engine powers you back up. The people just standing on it getting bounced around were doing it correctly. It was the morons who tried to ride it like a regular pogo stick who got the broken ankles that resulted in the product being discontinued. When they would ride it like a regular pogo stick by jumping, the engine would shoot it up faster than you could jump, shooting it into their feet with such force that it broke their ankles. So contrary to your comments, the people in the commercial were using the product as intended. Sounds like you would've been one of the people with broken ankles had you used it. 😂
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these were definitely the best years to be alive
People today are afraid of everything, back in the day we would get broken bones and traumatic brain injuries and we liked it!
I remember you only went to he ER if you need the bone set back in place. I had friends who broke their collar bone , used a friend's butter fly figure 8 brace and never went to the doc...... We were all tougher back then 💪
Genuinely can’t tell if this is satire or not welp
Traumatic brain injuries? That explains a lot about that generation.
@@edenjaycollins6055 Poe's law is huge with boomers lol
When my friends & I got sick of playing Lawn Darts the "right way," we made up a new game that involved launching a lawn dart straight up into the air as high as we could, and then everyone running. You "won" as long as you didn't get impaled.
Simpler times before helmets, warning labels, and class action lawsuits.
@marx I believe lawsuits in the early 1960s was why they stopped making the Hop Rod, wasn't it?
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 no but the fear of one yes
@@zsewqthewolf1194 class action lawsuits started in the 60s. That’s the reason this perfectly safe toy got banned……
@@errollgarnerjr8070 remeber a lot of things change when the far of lawsuits take place.
For those who don't know, Chance has been making ferris wheels, little trains, roller coasters, and other amusement rides you might see at a state fair since the 60's. They also made airport shuttles and buses that look like old streetcars.
I can see it now. "Hey dad, we need to fill up my pogo stick."
0:18 Just imagine seeing some grandpa casually on this in his driveway 😂😂😂
LMAO! That looks like something Wile E. Coyote would buy from the Acme Pogo Stick Company to chase Roadrunner with... Before it malfunctions and Pogo Sticks him off a cliff.
Is this the thing that caused that energy crisis way back when gas station lines got really long and people got into fistfights at the pump because they couldn't find enough gas to fill their pogos?
yes, at that time, the government and the media told us we were going to run out of 'energy', we were going to run out of all fuel sources.
Also in the late 70's, we had a few bad winters, and the media told us there was another ice age coming.
Wow of course you liberals had to mentioned the energy crisis because muh 70s, stop reading Vox or something, the decade was great and never was all about the energy crisis or something
American pickers sent me here.
Lol I just seen it too
HA! Me too just now lol
Haha, LIKEWISE!
They should bring this back.
I just saw one of these fully restored !
Can you imagine the liability issues they would have, if this thing was made today?
One word: disclaimer.
@@UpcomingJedi lawyers wipe their ass with disclaimers.... if big money is involved , they fuck you over and over until you ain't got shit no more 😵💫
There would be Karen’s EVERYWHERE
@@BigMoney23223 There most certainly would.
I need one of these!
Hell, back in the day, you could still get Sunoco 260, 98 octane. THAT would make it hop!
You can get 100 octane @ the pump today
its a common misconception that the higher the octane a fuel is, the more volatile it is. one thing I've learned while training to become a power engineer is, that's simply not the case, higher octane fuels are able to withstand much higher compression ratios without prematurely combusting in the combustion chamber. they are designed to burn efficiently in large 4 stroke sports car engines with high compression. thus, cheaper lower octane fuels contain more stored energy, but they burn way too quick to run efficiently in engines with large strokes, like corvette engines. so the hop rod probably wouldn't even run at all on 98 octane fuel, and if it does, it would run extremely rich, and dump the majority of the unburnt fuel out the exhaust port. the compression is too low.
It won't help the engine at all if it isn't made for it.
0:00-0:05 what a fantastic rap sample/tag that could be
They need to bring these back to toughen up kids.
My man said "A different ride every time " ! #missedmymark Man the 60s seems so cool!
Hop til drop
0:54 you know that was moms second to last hop before going flat on her fuckin back lolol
Can we expect to see a solar powered version soon so we all can hop to the polls
Yes it is for real. And yes he made them. I never got to ride the hop rod because I wasn't heavy enough to fire the piston via the spring.
I don't remember any fires but it did get hot after riding awhile so you had to watch out not to get legs too close.
Needed a water cooled system 😂🥴😵💫
and free health care 😫
I used to get the frayed bottoms of my blue jeans torching from the white gas spilling out of the useless spring loaded gas cap.
I believe this was one of the April Fools road tests by Road and Track magazine
looks fun
I'm with the Indiana State Museum and I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the Hop Rod commercial footage. We are going to put one on display and would like to be able to show the commercial with it. I can be contacted at llorance@indianamuseum.org. Thanks.
I have one with original box. Feel free to contact me
Century II !
I want one
My uncle got a concussion from a hop rod
@BretChilcott Yes.
what a fantastic years for kids, our times now sucks, almost everything is prohibited, FTS
and you may live to tell the story......'by chance' 😁
I wonder if that could have military applications.
No ... But does have litigation applications 😫
Yes, you give them to the enemy and they all break there legs
@@mikeandrews1899 Oh, I don't know. Imagine an entire army using them to invade a country.
Quackerjack's Hop Rod is as powerful as a REAL Hot Rod. Even more powerful than an ordinary Hop Rod.
I have one and it might be going up for sale soon
Facebook Marketplace ???
Glad you asked!
Made in Wichita, filmed in Wichita.
I was looking for a comment that said this. The second I saw to fountains and century 2 I knew immediately
I’m glad you asked
What happens if you use nitrous?
What about a hot rod hop rod? ...maybe some NOS? 😂
Does anybody know where that commercial was filmed? Looks pretty interesting!
In Wichita Kansas
IS THIS foreals?? i wnt one! who is your dad? the person who made these commercials?
Wonder if any had trouble with fuel spilling out,and,someone smoking started a fire.Or,if there
was a record set on how many hops!
I have one and yes, the “gas cap” is spring loaded. Spills fuel all over the cuffs of your pants and it catches fire. It runs on white gas (Colman lantern fuel). The spark is unreliable on mine. I plan on vamping it some day with a model engine spark plug, an ignition coil, and an accelerometer to make it fire at the right time. The arches of my feet are still messed up from trying to get it to work right 30 years ago.
Was this filmed on Wichita Ks?
That's in front of Century II, and around where the waterfalls used to be next to the river.
@@elmerkilred159the water falls are still there
I got one...
Awesome. Mine has ignition issues. I will some day resurrect it with an ignition coil, an accelerometer, and some arduino code.
Century 2 in the back ground curious to see if this was a wichita company
Yes, Chance Manufacturing of Wichita.
"hops up every time you come down!"
so how are you supposed to stop and get down from it again?
Theres no rotational momentum on the connecting rod of the piston to keep the firing cycle going. So, simply jumping off would stop it.
@@Terry_Baker you realize that you make absolutely zero sense with that story right?
@@Terry_Baker There is no rotational momentum bro. Theres no crankshaft. No flywheel. Nothing but your body to trigger the firing cycle. If you jump off, the firing cycle will stop.
@@Terry_Baker I dont give a shit if it's a two stroke, or a four stroke. Engines will not run unless they have rotational momentum, and or (in this perspective) lateral motion to continue a firing cycle on an internal combustion engine.
@@Terry_Baker So just stop dude. Your story is bullshit. Your acting like it was acting like an unmanned jackhammer going out of control. Stop lying, and making up bullshit.
Does narrator say “by chance” at the end?
Yes it does, was manufactured by Chance Rides in Wichita KS.
So is this the pogo stick s.o.a.d was talking about?
they need a V8 on one of these
WHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAA
This seems a bit dangerous by todays standards LOL!
i dont get it why people think its dangerous
"powewrised"???
Убийца позвоночных дисков?
Discontinued. Too meny broken ankles. Its also very loud not like commercial
The "ride" looks particularly painful.
Back when living to an old age was for sissies.
what... the... fuck...
That's! Jumping Jack meby Not soo nice fore Name: Knochen- Gelenke.
So they quit making these because of liability, people getting hurt. Probably mostly their own fault not paying attention what they're doing. Like most people in this ad, just standing on it getting bounced around, not actually controlling it. Banned toys like clackers, the 2 balls on a string, and of course law darts and later 3 wheelers. Hell, i'm surprised chess and checkers haven't been banned because of choking hazard. I think these are cool and should still be available, not really riskier than skateboards, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. Even kind of lame compared to the new generation of high power x-treme pogo's using elastic rubber bands. Hop on.
firstname lastname I ride a 3 wheeler it’s a Honda big red trike!! If you know how to use one there not dangerous
@@parker-jx1yc lawyers love morons who get injured on a product owned by a large corp comp with plenty $$$
@@parker-jx1yc we have ascended and broken free of the laws of natural selection...... To the detriment of the species gene pool 😖
The commercial specifically says all you have to do is hang on and the engine powers you back up. The people just standing on it getting bounced around were doing it correctly. It was the morons who tried to ride it like a regular pogo stick who got the broken ankles that resulted in the product being discontinued. When they would ride it like a regular pogo stick by jumping, the engine would shoot it up faster than you could jump, shooting it into their feet with such force that it broke their ankles. So contrary to your comments, the people in the commercial were using the product as intended. Sounds like you would've been one of the people with broken ankles had you used it. 😂
this toy was not popular among kangaroos.