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[Closed] Riding a penny farthing through central London.

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I've just been given this as a "gift".

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/742

Has anyone on here done it and survived?

Seems like the silliest thing ever thought up.


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 4:56 pm
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Looks brilliant tbh.

if people can ride at laggan wolftrax on an ordinary, surely a city street will be ok.


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 5:04 pm
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attention-seeking cockwittery of the highest order IMO - sorry OP

well-played to the organiser if they can make money out of that shit

<tugs forelock>


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 5:05 pm
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Never forget you can't stop pedalling and roll over an obstacle like you would on a MTB.  I definitely didn't do that as I would imagine you'd go over the bars.


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 5:06 pm
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I'm also the Captain of the England Penny Farthing Bicycle Polo Team

😳


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 5:06 pm
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Only one 'brake' - shirley not legal on the road?

<edit - as legal as a unicycle - had to check > 😉


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 7:20 pm
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Usually have one fixed wheel, one brake. Counts as two brakes, although it does look like the one in the pic doesn't have an extra brake


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 7:22 pm
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How ordinary.


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 7:27 pm
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There’s a lady who lives near us who has an adult and a child sized one!She offered me a go a while back but I chickened out. There’s a classic bicycle rally that goes to Regent’s Park . Try there , the tourists will love you .

🙂


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 7:54 pm
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Thought this was gonna be about David fox-pitt but it seems there are more than one person keen on riding one of those things around..


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 8:22 pm
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Looks like fun - gissa a go Mister 😀


 
Posted : 31/05/2018 9:22 am
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Some things you just have to try once... some things never.


 
Posted : 31/05/2018 9:32 am
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Do you have to dress up like the butler from dowton abbey ?


 
Posted : 31/05/2018 9:34 am
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You must be at least 5ft 5in (165 cm) tall

some of us have a legitimate get out apparently - height apartheid?


 
Posted : 31/05/2018 9:44 am

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