The Big Wheel is the seventh studio album by the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, released on 10 June 1991.

[1] To promote the release of the album, the band appeared on Brag broadcast on BBC Two Scotland which documented the recording and rehearsal sessions of The Big Wheel.

[1] The Kitchener-Waterloo Record wrote that "Donnie Munro's vocals drive the songs, but Iain Bayne's superbly produced drums power the band itself.

"[9] The Calgary Herald labelled the album "an inoffensive, watered-down brand of Celtic rock... Uninspiring but professional.

[15] The release of "Flower of the West" brought Runrig the closest they had been to entering the UK Top 40 Singles Charts, after the song debuted at number forty-three in the United Kingdom.