Not as much response as I expected.

Let's show you how the Penny Fakething was made, and hopefully I'll have something new for tomorrow.
Take a donor bike...

...and strip out the forks. They are going to end up here:

For this they need cold setting to match the frame:



The frame & forks are cut...

...and welded up


Meanwhile, a tube is added to the headtube...

...and bent to shape for the spine

Some small forks are welded in the other end of the tube and a footpeg added for mounting.

A bit of old frame is added to hold the saddle. And a piece of tubing from a scrap office chair is altered slightly to make handlebars, which are mounted in a stem fitted in the original seat tube.

The 'step-through' handlebars means it is safer than a proper pennyfarthing as it is possible to dismount forwards without handlebars being in the way.


A few months later, Velovision Editor, Peter Eland, catches me riding it at an event...


...which is where this video was taken.
http://www.youtube.com/v/MOXAB19lqxQ&rel=1