Timeline for How can I safely go downhill on an antique penny-farthing bike?
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 15:41 | comment | added | emma | Just follow the advice from the wikipedia page: "Headers were relatively common and a significant, sometimes fatal, hazard. Riders coasting down hills often took their feet off the pedals and put them over the tops of the handlebars, so they would be pitched off feet-first instead of head-first." | |
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| S Nov 14, 2020 at 11:19 | history | suggested | F1Linux |
Added the tag "brakes" as this is a key feature of the question
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| Nov 14, 2020 at 10:27 | answer | added | F1Linux | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 13:24 | comment | added | Andrew | I'm from the US and I call it a penny-farthing. I've never heard it called anything else. | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 5:32 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 15:05 | answer | added | Jedediah | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 18:24 | answer | added | Bob | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 1:46 | comment | added | Michael B | I don't have anything constructive to add to this, apart from the abject terror that the idea brought to mind! I take my hat off to you sir! you clearly have oversized balls as well as wheels! | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | D.Salo | Nobody watches The Prisoner any more in these degenerate days? The symbol of The Village (prominent in the end credits) is a pennyfarthing. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 21:41 | answer | added | Teun | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 8:10 | answer | added | terry | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 2:09 | vote | accept | Laurence Adams | ||
| Mar 17, 2012 at 16:50 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Anyone who wants to see one of these, go to any large steampunk convention (like this one, it's held every year) and you almost certainly will see a penny-farthing. | |
| Mar 17, 2012 at 9:34 | answer | added | Graham Earl | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 11:27 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @wdypdx22 -- I'm older than dirt. Never rode one myself, but very occasionally saw them around when I was knee high to a squirrel. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 9:05 | comment | added | zenbike | A penny farthing is a high wheeler bicycle. Riding downhill is an issue because there is no freewheeling, and the large wheel maintains its momentum when you brake which tends to catapult the rider over the bars. If they don't learn to bail feet first, they often land face first. | |
| S Mar 16, 2012 at 7:33 | history | suggested | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Disambiguated title.
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| Mar 16, 2012 at 6:53 | comment | added | user313 | @DanielRHicks- You're not that old. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 6:46 | comment | added | user313 | "you probably see the solution in use every day" Amusing. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 2:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBicycles/status/180483485910310912 | ||
| Mar 16, 2012 at 2:11 | comment | added | freiheit | @DanielRHicks "High-wheeler" and "ordinary" are common terms for them. I added "high-wheeler" to the question because it's descriptive and not confusing. | |
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| Mar 15, 2012 at 22:49 | answer | added | Daniel R Hicks | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 22:40 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | We called them a "high wheeler" when I was a kid, but that may have been a term unique to my block. | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 22:35 | comment | added | freiheit | @wdypdx22: This bit of the US-contingent wasn't confused, but I don't know an unambiguous term for them. It's a bike from before the diamond-frame chain/whatever driven geared bike existed with one huge wheel and one tiny wheel. | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 22:28 | history | edited | freiheit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added one explanatory description of what a penny-farthing is
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| Mar 15, 2012 at 22:17 | comment | added | Mac | @wdypdx22 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 21:58 | comment | added | user313 | What is a penny-farthing? | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 21:53 | comment | added | user313 | @ Laurence - "Penny-farthing"? And how does it relate to going downhill? I think that you're confusing the U.S. contingent. | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 21:51 | answer | added | freiheit | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 20:47 | answer | added | mikes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 20:26 | history | asked | Laurence Adams | CC BY-SA 3.0 |