I'm amazed at how easy he just made that look. I've also wondered this myself for ages.

*vintage
*obscure

Adding video to channels (Obscure, Vintage) - requested by ponceleon.

+10 nerd karma for wearing that WWDC T-shirt

penny farthing...penny farthing...penny farthing...oh, here it is. It's filed under "Words I'll Never Use"

but how to stop without getting of?

I always wondered why they made them like that in the first place.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I always wondered why they made them like that in the first place.

According to Wikipedia, the large wheel served two purposes:
First, and most important, it allowed higher speeds with less pedaling. Later "safety bicycles", similar to what we know today, used chain drives with cogs of different sizes to achieve the result.
Second, the larger diameter afforded a smoother ridge over rough terrain like cobblestones, a problem later solved for smaller wheels with the advent of the pneumatic tire.

>> ^conan:
but how to stop without getting of?

I'm not an expert on the subject, but I think the design of the penny-farthing almost prevents you from stopping without getting off. If you don't slow down very gradually you're going to take a vicious header and the Gravity-Pavement Complex is going to do the "getting off" for you. Even if you did manage to stop without getting off, you'd have a devil of a time keeping yourself balanced.

101? doesn't he mean 110100100

I saw this girl in Tijuana once who could do the penny farting thing

I want one!

Damnit, I thought it said "Penny Farting", which happens to be my favorite adult Inspector Gadget website.

Nice big yellow rapist van. I dig it.

'be seeing you'

>> ^sme4r:
Nice big yellow rapist van.

Nope, too many windows. Sure, you can put up harvest-gold curtains or airbrush a sweet unicorn\wolf\moon\stars'n'bars scene onto the windows, but it's easier and cheaper to just buy the windowless version.
Don't feel too bad - that's a classic newbie mistake.

>> ^shole:
'be seeing you'


I thought the same thing..."You are #6!"