It's alive! Pennyfarthing joy!

[Zipperhead]

I'll havvago!

There's a man not afraid of a bit of blood loss!

[andygates]

I;ll be sure to pack my hammer (to straighten the cranks) and some butterfly stitches...

[andygates]

Holy crap I feel like I've been beaten up.  Two hours of bailing and a 37-year-old carcass: ouch ouch ouch.  Still, it gives me some ideas for a name for the beastie.  Famous husband-beaters and Queens of the Amazons, anyone?

[nuttycyclist]

Queen of the Amazons?     That'll be Nancy.  She was definitely in charge and ruling over Peggy.  The Swallows were in Diplomatic agreement, but never coming under her rule, instead John and Susan ran that camp well.



How's your Nancy bike then?

[ABlipInContinuity]

Ordinary on the bay

[TimO]

Yikes, somebody is keen to buy it, £1420 and still over 4 days to go.

[Charlotte]

Ordinary on the bay

That's stunning.

But it's going to go for megabucks and if I was to spend megabucks onna penny, it'd be a repro that I could ride lots.  Probably from Joff.

[andygates]

Me, I'd feel bad about crashing an antique - and I've crashed mine lots.  You can't go fixing a 120-year-old museum piece with a hammer* and still feel good.

Incidentally, I have day-2 muscle ache from hell today.  Whoever knew that scooting was such hard work?




* Bent crank arms: high fall, heavy bike.

[Charlotte]

Stick with it, Andy - every time you fall off, you've learned something

[ABlipInContinuity]

Ordinary on the bay

That's stunning.

But it's going to go for megabucks and if I was to spend megabucks onna penny, it'd be a repro that I could ride lots.  Probably from Joff.

I really only posted it for the drool factor.

[andygates]

Lick lick. 

An important point has been passed.  Not more riding - it was grotten today and I'm still achey sore.  No, the machine finally got a name.

Bucephalus!

Huge, willful, magnificent, and ridden by a preposterous blowhard

[goatpebble]

Lick lick. 

An important point has been passed.  Not more riding - it was grotten today and I'm still achey sore.  No, the machine finally got a name.

Bucephalus!

Huge, willful, magnificent, and ridden by a preposterous blowhard

'Incipient poofery' on an Ordinary!

You Sir are a hero for our troubled times!

 

[tonycollinet]

Stick with it, Andy - every time you fall off, you've learned something

Yep - he learns that falling of a stupidly high saddle hurts.

Again!
 

[Adrian]

Ah yes, but this is a variety of similar lessons. Left hip, right hip. left collar bone, right collar bone, front of head, etc etc etc

[andygates]

It's the surprise cramps in right calf - scooting - and across my back - catching the behemoth before it falls - that get me. 

[woollypigs]

Saw a man doing his commute on a Penny tonight, Peli tells me that she have seen him around a few times before.

[nuttycyclist]

Is it Joff?

[Charlotte]

It could be Henry - the bloke who gave me a go on his penny a few years ago.  He lives round your way, Woolly.

[peliroja]

It could be Henry - the bloke who gave me a go on his penny a few years ago.  He lives round your way, Woolly.

Yes, it was him! I remember now.

[gordon taylor]

Is Joff back? Is he building pennies again?

I want a penny-farthing so much that it hurts.

[Hilldodger]

Is Joff back? Is he building pennies again?

Yes, dunno.

I want a penny-farthing so much that it hurts.

It will bloody hurts a few times

[Charlotte]

I want a penny-farthing so much that it hurts.

Me too.

[andygates]

I can lend you a lovely set of bruises.   

And no, I'm not riding it on black ice.  On a scale of one to stupid, that's right up at the stupid end!

(if only it fitted in the van -- love to see people's faces at Newport!)  -- like this!  Penny Farthing | Ed Rudolph Northbrook Velodrome