#Penny Farthing

[finisfish4]

I want to ride my…. Penny farthing? 🤨

[scavengedluxury]

[fofi42]

I see what's happening here...

Taskmaster s17e09 SPOILERS

[weirdyearbook]

Source details and larger version.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[murphyellents]

Simon Petrikov, also known as the Ice king in his cursed days, riding an old fashioned bike. I just wanted to draw him just pleasantly enjoying something from the olden days, even considered old in the pre-mushroom war era, since he is the type of person who'd enjoy such a thing.

[vox-anglosphere]

An English mailman delivers a letter atop a penny farthing bicycle

[daguerreotyping]

Cabinet card of a gentleman on a penny-farthing (early type of bicycle), c. 1880s

[bigglesworld]

Bicycle shop

[glimvinty]

My first animation. Some kind of bastard on a bicycle. He broke his legs so many different ways just to bring you this gif

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Love Wishes will find it rather difficult to pedal this penny farthing bicycle.

On Museum Street, in London, England.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

What the HELL is this

HELLO?!!!??

Due to reasons which I will not explain, I am very well aware of how people get up on penny farthings, and I can safely tell you this thing is a fucking death trap.

The only way to possibly get up on it is to somehow — even though there appears to be no footrest bar on the bottom — put one foot on the frame near the wheel and push with the other foot like a scooter to build momentum, then climb up the frame sidesaddle like a child on monkey bars and pray to god you don’t eat shit and lose all your teeth.

Also… WHERE ARE THE PEDALS??

It’s giving AI-generated

[polybiiex]

nyoom (that's supposed to be me)

[greyam]

Penny Farthing

Imagine having to do the Tour de France on this. :D I'd suspect that the mountainous routes would be interesting. ;)

This is what's called a penny farthing bicycle. This type of bike was popular during the 1870s, but fell out of use in the 1880s due to the invention of the safety bicycle, the type bicycle that's still in use today. It was called the penny farthing due to one wheel being way larger than the other; the large wheel being the penny, and the smaller one the farthing.

This photograph was taken a couple of weeks ago at Dorking Museum, in Dorking, Surrey.

[azulso]

Kay Challis alters by

[incorrectbusiness]

Max: Here’s a fun Christmas idea. We hang mistletoe, but instead of kissing, you have to FIGHT whoever else is under it.

Penny: Max no.

Pip: Mistlefoe.

Penny: Please stop encouraging him.

[gill-sans]