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

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    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