Penny farthing

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I can't do something like yard work and smoke a pipe at the same time. Tamper, lighter, too many gadgets to contend with and enjoy the bowlful at the same...

My future Penny-Farthing Bike!

The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a “bicycle”. It was popular in ...

Just saw a gentleman in a top hat in Woodbury, NJ on a penny farthing like this. Amazing. #steampunk #victorian

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That big front wheel bike was known as a penny farthing or high wheel bike, and they were all the rage in the Victorian age. In fact, many preferred them over conventional bikes. Here's why.

when you are willing to do anything for someone you love or someone you really appreciate in your life. the person who you stand by in any problem and vice versa. the term "ride till the end or die trying"

This edited article about bicycles originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 603 published on 4 August 1973. The penny farthing by Peter Jackson “It would have been cheaper to fly all the way,” said Dennis Wickham when, on November 1, 1971, he arrived in Brisbane on his penny-farthing bicycle. It was the end […]