High-Wheeler or Penny-Farthing Bicycle, 1891

An antique bicycle; American; about 1891. The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler and ordinary, is a type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel. It was popular after the boneshaker until the development of the safety bicycle in the 1880s. It was the first machine to be called a bicycle

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Bicycling Bicyclist Cyclist Farthing Ordinary Penny-farthing Two-wheeler Wheeler

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