the annual penny-farthing race in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 2, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/11/images-of-autumn-2019/601783/

hold on... where did this come from? Did kids die on this from panic braking on the front brakes?

https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/vintage-fun-karts-sidewalk-racers-push-karts-pedal-cars-other-contraptions.62564/post-663705

1884. Kendall Green Cycling Club, on American Star Bicycles

https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2015/06/14/napi_erdekes_20_kep_340

Lucius D Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona, US was issued with a United States patent for his steam-powered bicycle and is sometimes classed as an early motorcycle.

In 1881 Copeland designed an efficient small steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of a Columbia penny-farthing to a speed of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h). Unlike typical penny-farthing bicycles, the Copeland had small wheel at the front, which was turned by the handlebar for steering, and large wheel at the back.

Peter Gagan, a former president of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, was able to trace an 1884 "Star" bicycle with an original Copeland steam engine to the Phoenix Museum of History. Gagan took sufficiently detailed measurements to create a full-scale, working replica, which was hurriedly assembled to feature at the Guggenheim's 'The Art of the Motorcycle' Exhibition when it opened on The Las Vegas Strip in October 2001.

 This finished replica of the original Copeland "Star" is now the oldest motorcycle design in operable condition in the world.

Copeland didn't stop there, he set up the Northrop Manufacturing Co. in 1887 in Camden, New Jersey to produce the a three-wheeled version, the "Phaeton Moto-Cycle", which he demonstrated at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C in 1888.

which is at this entrance to the Smithsonian Castle

http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/13798?fbclid=IwAR0x_BQhtuKoUZSKAsIimAQ_6X8uVNUs5PYdTZVZ3b-mE4rqQwtrxsUaOHk
http://sailingdowntheroad.blogspot.com/2012/06/smithsonian-castle.html

Folies-Bergère, Léonati, Vélocipediste poster by Jules Chéret, and 1890 Folies-Bergère G. Lockart et ses Éléphants

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2016/09/belle-epoque-part-1.html

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2016/10/belle-epoque-part-7.html

Cycling for the soul is an age-old tradition

spin class on big wheels... I love it

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are Holmes And Watson

clever ad from Lokar

points for trying

https://www.tresna.co.uk/blog/flatland-bmx-ultimate-guide.htm

wow, someone got innovative, and created a new mountain bike thing from an old pennyfarthing design because the UCI just released the 2019 rulebook allowing for mismatched wheel sizes in downhill racing

and it's all CGI by Guillaume Bout, after 10 years of experience in CG visualization on various subjects but mostly working on VVIP aircraft interiors for "high net worth individuals" and heads of state/governments, where he was in charge of turning the designer's blueprints into realistic 3D renderings so the client could see what his flying palace would be like. The panel of aircrafts he's worked on includes B747, B777, B787, B737, A340, A320, Global 5000, Falcon 7X, Falcon 2000.

https://www.artstation.com/gb3d
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dOJ4W1

Motorized pennyfarthings

https://motoredbikes.com/threads/unusual-motored-bicycles.26453/

the most unusual types of vehicles used on cross continent trips, a Tuk Tuk/rickshaw, a Meyers Manx, a penny farthing, Citroen van, and a tractor

Antonia and Jo drove their Tuk Tuk (auto rickshaw) from Bangkok Thailand to Brighton England.. 12.7k miles, 2 continents, 12 countries, and several landslides were driven over along the way

They broke the previous world record of 11,900 miles in a rickshaw... what is more amazing, that anyone ever had went from India to England, or that their record would be broken by a trip from Thailand?!?!?!?

http://www.theitinerant.co.uk/journeys/tuk-to-the-road/

http://tuktotheroad.blogspot.com/2006/03/

and a Meyers Manx on a 1968 VW bug chassis from Sweden to the Sudan

http://redbuggy.com/about/

http://www.cheminsdumonde.net/site/element_61_c_c.php
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdoQZkrnqA_WdvQmlqTcHQ

A crazy guy on a bike. That's his website, https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/  and his description. I can relate

A bicycle tourist, Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson walk into a bar. The bartender looks at the group and exclaims "Hey! You can't bring that bike in here!"

Q. What’s the difference between a cycle tourist and a cricket?
A. The cricket loves making clicking sounds with its legs.

Q. Why did the cycle tourer ride an extra 2000 miles, cross two continents and hitch home 6 months late on a leaky sea freighter?
A. To avoid the baggage handlers at Chicago airport.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-1st-tractor-to-south-pole-was.html
http://www.tractortractor.org/en

things rarely mentioned in cross continent trips, the shots. Some of them are polio, meningitis, and Japanese encephalitis.

http://www.africa-overland.net/
http://overland-live.blogspot.com/2010/01/unusual-overland-vehicles-from-tractor.html

The Florida bicycle-boat. From Judge’s Library, A Monthly Magazine of Fun 1887.

http://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=30161
https://tmblr.co/Zqou6t2W1USlq
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006837548

Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947.

It was launched by former "Puck" illustrator James A. Wales, who sold the magazine in 1885 to William J. Arkell.

Arkell managed to lure Bernard Gilliam from "Puck" and made him a full partner at "Judge."

And thus the face plant was invented.... Allen had the best quip for a caption, I had to use it for the title after reading it!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1270179249795355/

I'd like to see some diversity in the Tour de France too,... just not in the athletes. I want to see some machinery variation

https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/permalink/10155552660939556/

in the 1890s, when cycling became more affordable and available to the less affluent, the office clerks and laborers, the bike disrupted the social strata by mixing the wealthy and the poor in one hobby, much like access to public parks and libraries did

“Professional men would bike to get out of the city, into the fresh air and particularly beyond all the hordes of immigrants who were flooding the area. And then, lo and behold, they found these same folks were following them out on bicycles.”

“The bicycle is indeed the great leveler,” reported The Century magazine in 1894. “It puts the poor man on a level with the rich, enabling him to ‘sing the song of the open road’ as freely as the millionaire.”

read a whole article about it: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/05/the-great-leveler/527355/
photo by David W Cerny  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/pragues-high-wheel-cycling-race/ss-AAjWYXr#image=13

great display of pennyfarthings

I don't recall where I found this

Opus Ferrum by Tobbe Malm Metalart

https://www.facebook.com/SteampunkTendencies/

pennyfarthing group photo

https://www.facebook.com/Early-Motorcycles-Scooters-with-Ladies-in-mainly-Old-Photographs-898023176932708

Big wheels in contrast and comparison

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/

the Schloss Dyck Classic Days was chosen by the readers of Motor Klassik again as the "Event of the Year"

https://www.facebook.com/classicdays/?fref=photo