Big Wheel/Ass Dragger

This a bike that got built at Big Baby House without me. Basically a completely random cobbling of parts to make something at the edge of rideable. The gearing is slow and chain is slack. Personally it kills my back to ever ride it to the store. Great stuff.

The call the Big Wheel, but to me Big Wheels are front wheel drive and have 3 wheels, so I've been calling it the Ass-Dragger in my head.

All You Haters Suck My Balls (the hipster's pennyfarthing)

So appearently pennyfarthings are becoming the new fixie.  This one is really ugly in traditional hipster fashion.  Note the deep v wheel and apehangers.

Link.

Pennyfrathing Party

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Tandem Pennyfarthing

Well done, too.  Two thumbs up!

Link.  (appearently)

Pennyfarthing Wreck #2

These things are seriously death traps.  If the front wheel get caught up on anything (pebbles, cracks), which is really easy because the tires are hard rubber, then the entire body of the bike rotates forward with your legs behind the handlebars.  Also it's tall.  

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Gentleman's Fall

That is about to hurt really bad.  Also, that appears to be a diy pennyfarthing.  Note the 8 spoke wheel.

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Cute Pennyfarthing Pic

Lots more cute pix of folx having fun on pennyfarthings, trikes, unicycles, and more.

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Balloon-Tire Penny Farthing

It's like a beach-cruiser pennyfarthing.

There are few more good ones on the Link.

Vintage Bicycle Museum

Pictured above is something called a running machine.  I guess they hadn't invented pedals yet.  LOTS more cool-looking bikes on this photo-tour of a vintage bicycle museum.  This is really worth checking out.

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Rat Patrol History

Johnny Payphone wrote a pretty silly history of thier Chicago-based Rat Patrol freakbike gang.  Lots of funny old freakbike pictures on there.

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Pennyfarthing Racing

I love that they still wear racing tights and all that.

Futuristic penny-farthing

Futuristic penny-farthing
Originally uploaded by hugojcardoso

Aero pennyfarthing? Next cool thing amongst fixie kids?

Wacky Vintage Bikes

The bicycle industry took a long time to figure out exactly what to do before they came to the modern safety bicycle.  This site has a bunch of diferent silly versions of the bicycle.  Here are a few: 

This one is really similar to the modern safety bike, but instead of a chain to drive it, there are just some gears.  

This backwards pennyfarthing seems like an obvious and way superior version of the direct-drive bicycle.  Usual pennyfarthing riding is difficult because the steering is on the same part of the bike as the propulsion system.

Another attempt to improve on the pennyfarthing.  Appearently both of the small wheels steer it.

Harry Lawsons Bicyclette

"James Starley's Rover of 1885 was the first successful bike in which pedals and a crank drove the rear wheel with a chain, but he was not the first with that design. In 1879 Englishman Harry Lawson designed and patented a version of a large front wheeled bike with a smaller rear wheel driven by cranks and a chain. Lawson's bike was not very well received, and he went on to design bikes using levers for power transmission. The Bicyclette was a commercial failure, but he had hit upon a superion design feature."

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Winifred

One of Johnny Payphone's Penny Fakethings.  Johnny has a little website with plenty wierdo PennyFarthings. 

Choppercabras (55)

Choppercabras (55)
Originally uploaded by digablesoul

Holy shit! This bike will fuck you up! How do you stop?

Click the pic to see the full photo set. Lots of great pix.

McSameFailin.jpg

McSameFailin.jpg
Originally uploaded by ipsofatso

I love the spoke card.