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[Closed] PSA Penny Farthing now half price at Discount Cycle Shop!

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Cheap at half the price, £135:

www.discountcycleshop.co.uk/productdetails.php?procatid=42&prosubcatid=42&proid=581

Not bad for a first PSA, right?


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:05 pm
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Niche OVERLOAD!!!!!!!!!

😉


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:09 pm
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Best PSA ever...

DrP

(if it weren't for my resolution to control my spending on bonkers bikes, this would be winging it's way to me as we speak...)


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:10 pm
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Ah! ****! Want!


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:15 pm
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700c front wheel

Doesn't that mean you'll be spinning like crazy?


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:20 pm
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If I hadn't have bought a new (to me) frame yesterday I'd be tempted just for teh lolz.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:28 pm
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700c front wheel
Doesn't that mean you'll be spinning like crazy?

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Yeah, because other that that its perfect for everyday day use ! 🙂


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:28 pm
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if it was a full size one! I watched a old full size one on eBay and it went for over a grand. Shame could have fancied it.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:33 pm
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just needs a sturmy archer 3 speed hub.

edit: actually that wouldn't work...hmm would need a bit of creativity but you could work out a geared hub.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:37 pm
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Sorry, been done!

I rode a modern 36" wheel one in France a few years back, good fun but scary endo's!


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 12:45 pm
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Decisions, decisions, penny farthing or unicycle?


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 1:17 pm
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If you don't want to be ostracised by the pennyfarthingists, never call it a penny farthing - it's an "ordinary"...


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 1:22 pm
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If you don't want to be ostracised by the pennyfarthingists, never call it a penny farthing - it's an "ordinary"...

Ugh, that's a real thing isn't it?

I reckon it's only a matter of time until I see someone on one of these in the Northern Quarter of Manchester.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 1:31 pm
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just needs a sturmy archer 3 speed hub.

Put a Schlumpf unicycle hub on instead.

Ben will be along in a bit to sell you one.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:02 pm
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I'm waiting on the Rapha photoshoot, with grainy gelatin prints of course. A rider dressed in tweed plus 4's and a sports jacket wearing a bowler hat, monacle and a handlebar moustache as wide as set of Easton Haven bars, wearing the best handmade brogues a gentleman could possibly buy - I see him riding up a long climb in yorkshire whilst a farmer with his shire horse furrows a field in the background as steam rises from the horse's nostrils and overworked muscles as it struggles to plough the frozen ground on a frosty morning, this will draw parallels with the riders superhuman effort to crest the hill.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:06 pm
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Any owners on here of an 'ordinary'? 😉 Tell me how the hell you manage with it, surely the number of times you need to stop and put a foot down pretty much restricts the roads youre on, either closed or not needing stops?


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:10 pm
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You just find a handy lamp post to grab hold of - traffic lights are good too 😉

Ben will be along in a bit to sell you one.

I sold one in 10 years - I'm rubbish at selling stuff. Besides, it should have a much bigger wheel then it won't need gearing.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:12 pm
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Digger the mascot rides one around the pitch at London Irish, more entertaining than the rugby this season.

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Posted : 16/01/2013 2:16 pm
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He appears to have got himself tangled up in the handlebars.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:18 pm
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I wanted one until I saw how you look riding it!


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:22 pm
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I was looking at them the other day, thinking , yes, want. But then i an undecided over that or a cruiser bike............ cruiser maybe a bit more useable for work and back . There is one that looks like an old american army bike without the engine, but quite pricey.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 2:28 pm
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I wanted one until I saw how you look riding it!

I wanted one, then I saw how that mascot looks riding it. Now I really want one.


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 3:46 pm
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if it was a full size one! I watched a old full size one on eBay and it went for over a grand. Shame could have fancied it.

so, stop mucking about with clothing and make something manly Joe!


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 4:29 pm
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Do you think it would be possible to fit a Hammerschmidt?


 
Posted : 16/01/2013 4:32 pm

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