check out this home made penny farthing from the All-City Blog
I'm pretty enamored with it due to the level of inventiveness and ingenuity that went in to making it. It really seems to follow in the spirit of that time in bicycle history when coach makers and metal workers were inventing and making bicycles and components.
internal headset. headtube made from water pipe fitting
home made leather saddle with adjustable mount
rear wheel from an antique sewing machine with garden hose for rubber
juncture of garden hose on front wheel
cranks made from 5/8ths wrenches
carved wooden bars
card from original shop
Amazing
May 14, 2010
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