I thought I had seen everything..

[jmaccyd]

Someone cycling a Penny Farthing in London on Sunday night. Top banana and respect, but put some lights on it!

 

[thomas]

Someone cycling a Penny Farthing in London on Sunday night. Top banana and respect, but put some lights on it!

Sounds like you saw it

 

[Rhythm Thief]

If you thought you'd seen everything, but it then turned out that you hadn't, what makes you think that now you have?

 

[Davidc]

I hope you mean lighting thats 'in period' with the bicycle in question. Burning acetylene in carbide lights was the normal form of lighting for early bicycles and motor cars. Water was added to calcium carbide to produce the acetylene.

My granndfather had both a bicycle and motor bicycle lamp of this sort which he'd used up to the 1920s. The innards were like a simplified Kipps apparatus in which the gas pressure as it was produced held the water back until enough gas was used up. He told me that they did sometimes burst into flame!

Not sure when rear bike lights came in or what technology would have been used (Hilldodger would know though).

 

[Black Sheep]

If you thought you'd seen everything, but it then turned out that you hadn't, what makes you think that now you have?

Have you seen a man eat his own head?

No?

then you have not seen everything

 

[jmaccyd]

I hope you mean lighting thats 'in period' with the bicycle in question. Burning acetylene in carbide lights was the normal form of lighting for early bicycles and motor cars. Water was added to calcium carbide to produce the acetylene.

My granndfather had both a bicycle and motor bicycle lamp of this sort which he'd used up to the 1920s. The innards were like a simplified Kipps apparatus in which the gas pressure as it was produced held the water back until enough gas was used up. He told me that they did sometimes burst into flame!

Not sure when rear bike lights came in or what technology would have been used (Hilldodger would know though).

Funny, I think he was running a very dim front light so it is possible that it was some form of 'period' lighting. Got to say, an impressive sight as he cycled down Paddington Street with a considerable amount of saing-froid

 

[Bollo]

Have you seen a man eat his own head?

No?

then you have not seen everything

Or my personal favourites.......

Unicorns with AIDS?

or

Lesbian ham?

 

[plainlazy]

It could have been this bloke ?

http://www.pennyfarthingworldtour.com/