the penny!!

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

farthing bicycle is back
Video: Penny farthing reborn as 'Monsterbike' - Autoblog UK

 

[Ken Bruty]

Someone get him a can of WD40 for Gods sake! I wouldn't be surprised if that was Amsterdam, as you wouldn't want to go down hill on that would you :yikes:, and forget uphills or in windy conditions for that matter. I guess he must have built it because he could :smilewinkgrin:

 

[user123]

Agreed, Ken, no way you'd want to pedal a big tire like that uphill, and no way any breaks would be strong enough for downhill!!
Isn't it UGLY!!!

That reminds me, half a lifetime ago I worked with a photographer in London, setting up lights and stuff, and he had a unicycle, was really good on it, and taught me a bit. I could stay on one for about 50 yards before falling over. I was practising in this quiet one way mews lane, jsut used by residents really and I get stopped by this policeman, no kidding, and he asks me "Can you do an emergency stop on this? I though he was joking, and I laughed and said "I just jump off!" didn't want to admit to falling off... and he tells me, "Sorry, you can't ride on here, without an emergency stop facility you are illegal on British roads!" Plonker... Still practised when he wasn't around though... :lol:

 

[doug boardley]

Agreed, Ken, no way you'd want to pedal a big tire like that uphill, and no way any breaks would be strong enough for downhill!!
Isn't it UGLY!!!

That reminds me, half a lifetime ago I worked with a photographer in London, setting up lights and stuff, and he had a unicycle, was really good on it, and taught me a bit. I could stay on one for about 50 yards before falling over. I was practising in this quiet one way mews lane, jsut used by residents really and I get stopped by this policeman, no kidding, and he asks me "Can you do an emergency stop on this? I though he was joking, and I laughed and said "I just jump off!" didn't want to admit to falling off... and he tells me, "Sorry, you can't ride on here, without an emergency stop facility you are illegal on British roads!" Plonker... Still practised when he wasn't around though... :lol:

you rebel!!

 

[White Room]

Had a teacher when I was at school who was a maths teacher and his name was Mr Farthing, he had a daughter who was called Penny.

Not a good choice:whistling:

 

[Ken Bruty]

Had a teacher when I was at school who was a maths teacher and his name was Mr Farthing, he had a daughter who was called Penny.

Not a good choice:whistling:

Maybe she was conceived on one Whitebeam. I wish I could project a mental image onto the screen, or maybe not :ban🙁visual infraction)

 

[mikethetile]

Had a teacher when I was at school who was a maths teacher and his name was Mr Farthing, he had a daughter who was called Penny.

Not a good choice:whistling:

was she the local bike mark:lol: