October 26, 2025Oct 26 I would certainly entertain a larger wheel option if available depending on cost etc..
October 26, 2025Oct 26 The larger the wheel less torque from a hub motor, imagine penny farthing with a hub motor .
October 27, 2025Oct 27 penny farthing Last time I saw a penny farthing there was a group of them late in the year in fancy dress and one was Father Christmas. As I said to them then "I`v seen it all now!"........... Should have got a selfie we were all stopped at a junction at the time.
October 27, 2025Oct 27 The penny farthing is probably the scariest looking contraption out there in bikeland. Just the whole concept of having those small bars across your knees, and its propensity to topple over frontwards, meaning you could be in for the worlds largest faceplant. It was much better when they swopped the small back wheel to the front.
October 28, 2025Oct 28 The penny farthing is probably the scariest looking contraption out there in bikeland. Just the whole concept of having those small bars across your knees, and its propensity to topple over frontwards, meaning you could be in for the worlds largest faceplant. It was much better when they swopped the small back wheel to the front. Google “Johnny Payphone bikes” for some whacky bikes
October 28, 2025Oct 28 https://chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/28/travis-duffey-a-bike-advocate-and-artist-who-flipped-through-life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NetsSLIur6k:27
October 29, 2025Oct 29 The penny farthing is probably the scariest looking contraption out there in bikeland. Just the whole concept of having those small bars across your knees, and its propensity to topple over frontwards, meaning you could be in for the worlds largest faceplant. It was much better when they swopped the small back wheel to the front. The penny farthing's terrible accident rate by the rider ending up head first on the road has inspired a number of phrases in English which we still see in use: 'Taking a header' 'Coming a cropper' And much less common - 'The hospital flip' I've never heard the last one myself, but it is on Google. There is an interesting book by a chap who in the 1880s rode a high wheeler across the USA from SF to NY, took ship to Liverpool, then rode across Europe, the Middle East, India and then China. He was called Thomas Stevens, which was the maiden name of one of my grandmothers. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5136 Free and a good read about a huge adventure. Also writing about him here: https://longreads.com/2022/04/26/thomas-stevens-sports-porn/ Edited October 29, 2025Oct 29 by Tony1951
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