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Penny-Farthing High Wheeler

© Kenneth De Pree

Penny-Farthing High Wheeler

Uploaded: August 11, 2012 15:22:19

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This bicycle dates back to the 1800s. It has no gears or chains as bicycles do today. At the time many of the street were still dirt roads or cobbled roads. Because of the rougher roads, the larger wheel was better at absorbing the bumps one would experience while riding.

Bicycles like these are called ``penny-farthing'' bicycles. When people started riding these bicycles in England they were using two kinds of coins called pennies and farthings. Pennies were very big and farthings were very small. People thought that the wheels on this bike looked like the coins, so it is called a penny-farthing.

Photographed at the Old Rinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, NY

Exif: F Number: 6.3, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 6250/1000000 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 100,100, FocalLength: 100.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 60D

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