Penny Farthings

[Sharky]

Saw a magnificent example of a Penny Farthing today, riding through Longfield.

Was that you?

 

[Drago]

Used to see one about in Newport Pagnell but the owner - Roy Pink of Roy Pink Cycles fame - is an old boy now and can no longer ride it.

 

[ExBrit]

I used to commute to Irvine on the Metrolink and met a guy with a home-built penny-farthing stored in the bike section of the train. He is a professor at University of Irvine and rode it from the station to work. I asked him what the hardest part of building the bike was. "The spokes". Interesting guy.

 

[Spiderweb]

I saw this chap just recently on my trip to the Austrian Alps, apparently he is well known in Schladming and rides this modern incarnation daily.

 

[ren531]

My first job after leaving school in 1978 I cycled to work in Pilling Lancs and I would see a guy riding his penny farthing to work every day in the opposite direction , never seen one used for comuting since.

 

[numbnuts]

Over on YACF a lady called Charlotte had one and lived in London

 

[TheDoctor]

Hilldodger (formerly of this parish) had one, and his erstwhile company Cyclemagic had a few.
I've taught a few dozen people how to ride one.

 

[Ian H]

Over on YACF a lady called Charlotte had one and lived in London

She's still there. I have ridden hers, for a short distance.

'Ordinary' or 'high bicycle' are the proper terms.

 

[presta]

I don't really see the appeal of them, their replacements weren't called safety bikes for no reason, as Jeremy Vine found out.

 

[TheDoctor]

They're good fun. I'd not want to have one as my only bike, but I'd like to have one.

 

[TheDoctor]

Oh no. I've just re-discovered Wobbly John's Instructable on making a Penny Fakething.
All the danger, none of the authenticity. Praise be that I don't know how to weld...

 

[Sharky]

This episode of the Repair Shop, renovated a Penny Farthing

https://www.gunnandco.co.uk/the-repair-shop-penny-farthing

 

[TheDoctor]

No No No No NO! Not watching it.
Nor do i need to know that Aldi has welders on sale next week or whenever.

 

[classic33]

No No No No NO! Not watching it.
Nor do i need to know that Aldi has welders on sale next week or whenever.

Machine Mart VAT free offer on welders ends today.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Pfft, they're just unicycles with stabilisers.