Now you might think of the people who ride a penny-farthing as sort of annoying on account of it’s a penny-farthing, but let me suggest finding them annoying because they ride fixies
Now you might think of the people who ride a penny-farthing as sort of annoying on account of it’s a penny-farthing, but let me suggest finding them annoying because they ride fixies
It’s wild that the bicycle we know had to be invented as the safety bicycle. It took so long for all of the essential technologies to develop to make penny-farthings seem absurd.
Mountainbikes were invented in the 1970s lol.
Personal crank theory is the breakthrough for cycling mostly isn’t even technological, you could’ve invented the dandy horse of safety bicyles way earlier. I mean the original ones are much closer to the safety cycle than the penny-farthing - it’s that the roads just sucked so why bother.
EDIT: Technological as in figuring out metallurgy, ball bearings and such