pennyfarthing

In the 1850s, before the pennyfarthing was a lopsided glint in James Starley's eye, Charles Dickens wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Wurst of Times BikeSnobNYC 2009

My grandfather teetering along on his pennyfarthing, Milicent playing tennis in her immense "picture hat", my great-grandfather's "butterfly bed", the teak seat where he sat star-gazing with Milicent's best friend, who was also his mistress; doomed Gillachrist and his girl cousins dancing to a gramophone on the lawn in the summer of 1914 ...

Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010

Speaking of Husker Du, I bet Greg Norton rides a pennyfarthing.

Wake Up and Smell the Trees: Speed Bumps Ahead BikeSnobNYC 2010

What worked then will not work now, anymore than recreating urban transportation with oxcarts and pennyfarthing bicycles will work today.

How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010

Canoe jousting is pennyfarthing retro - see www.washingtoncanoeclub.org no app yet

Spoils of Victory: Jousting with Legitimacy BikeSnobNYC 2010

First, Louis "Birdie" Munger became the first person to win the Tour de France on a pennyfarthing in 1887.

Archive 2010-03-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010

Even more stunning than the superhuman effort was the fact that Hincapie was riding a period-correct pennyfarthing or "p-far" bicycle, apparently proffered by a costumed bystander.

Fully Loaded: Excessive Packaging BikeSnobNYC 2010

Inasmuch as the pennyfarthing or "p-far" is roughly 140 years old, and its predecessor, the so-called "boneshaker," is not much older, one wonders what sort of conveyance a bike messenger could possibly have been riding back in 1810, when even the crotch-torturing "dandyhorse" was but a phantom throbbing in inventor Karl Drais's "pants yabbies."

The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms BikeSnobNYC 2010

First, Louis "Birdie" Munger became the first person to win the Tour de France on a pennyfarthing in 1887.

Signs of Victory: What it Takes to Win BikeSnobNYC 2010

High Wheel bicycle pennyfarthing - $1500 Machesney Park

There's The Rub: Marketing Gone Amok Awry BikeSnobNYC 2009