[Oshkalaboomboom]

They weren't called penny farthing until they were almost obsolete. They were called high wheels then, after the safety bicycle was invented, the ordinary.

There is a new show called David Jason's Great British Inventions that has a segment on these bicycles featuring one of the last high wheel builders in the world.

[T-Bird45]

“There is a new show called David Jason’s Great British Inventions that has a segment on these bicycles featuring one of the last high wheel builders in the world.”

For God’s sake, don’t tell Mike Wolfe from “American Pickers” — he’ll swoon dead away.