Simplicity can be so beautiful sometimes.

BWWWWAAAAAAAP!

Well, I like the wheels... That's something.. Right?

It says 7+. I imagine it would be 3+ if you didn't have to arrange that rubber band in such a tricky position.

What an ugly background.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What’s a rider-less tribuggy doing popping a wheelie like that? That’s just a level of showboating I cannot endure.

I had this. Not in 1999 but a few years ago. I bought it from a charity shop. I don't really go for technic sets so despite having just 24 pieces I went wrong and had to take apart and start again. I later sold it on to someone in my LUG for what I paid for it - which was about £1.50 I think.

I had the boxed version of this set, 1257 ^^ It showed up MISB in a charity shop several years later; I've never really been a technic fan, with the exception of buildable figures like the Slizers and first-wave Bionicle, but I always loved finding Lego unexpectedly in charity shops so it was basically a foregone conclusion that I was gonna buy it regardless!

I... don't have much to say about it otherwise, though. Like I said, not really a technic enthusiast here so I kinda... didn't do anything with it after building it, it just sat at the bottom of the drawer where I kept my assembled sets, and eventually was sold in a job-lot with another small technic set or two when I was cutting down on my Lego collection after I started at university.

Regarding the set name, this was the Kabaya version, so it's possibly a slip-up in the translation from the Japanese name, which we've seen on Kabaya set entries before; the boxed version was simply called Tricycle.