The Penny Farthing was the sketchiest bicycle ever made 

You'd see Sam Pilgrim first

@@realDonaldTrump420 he would send it no problem

I know someone who’s good on a unicycle, like really good

​@@WeekendPirate that's the story of how he lost his tooth XD

​@@WeekendPirate it would be soo good. and he would put fox 40s on it.

Obscene?

I'm so mad he didn't show what he looked like while doing it 😂

​@@Mongolold "offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency."

I want a gif of riding the penny farthing down the stairs!

He could've just showed (3:53) hahaha

For science of course! hahahahaha

I'm going to go a little "Seth" here. The idea of being a "visual learner" etc. is a myth. I was doing some research earlier this year and came across this. If you're interested, I can dig up a video that explains how this educational approach came about.

@@rrolleman4879 Sorry, I'll rephrase. I was having a hard time imagining what it would look like if someone were to do as Seth described so I appreciate his demonstration.

I'm your 300th liker here & bye.

I have a book here called An American Cycling Odyssey 1887 by Kevin J. Hayes to read next. Is that the same one?

​@@bildo99ify Not the same. Hayes rode from New York to San Francisco several years later than Stevens...in 72 days, which is quite remarkable. Stevens rode from San Francisco east to Boston, which took 104 days, then took ship to London and began the European leg of his journey. The story can be read for free at Project Gutenberg.

Please post its ISBN number?!? 🤠👍

@@worldtraveler930 Sorry, YT won't let me post it. I've tried twice now and my replies disappear instantly. More censorship run amuck.

@@r.awilliams9815 Try writing it out Alphabetically instead of using numbers?!? 🤠👍

True, I always assumed people just accepted whatever they could get back then without complaining about it. And I didn't think about the lack of air in tires back then and how it would make a larger front wheel an improvement over what actually looked more normal to us.

That's kinda funny I actually had kinda the opposite reaction when I saw the title and the thumbnail. I was like "I don't understand, what's wrong with it?".

The "Big Wheel " tricycle, is basically the same basic design.... But rotated, and with two instead of one wheel behind the ride... Creating the most stable rideable toy in history, from the most unstable platform in history.... Talk about irony???

@@nc3826 I hated my big wheel growing up because I could never get it to move in our super tall unkempt yard

@@screamingcactus1753 My comment, actually alludes to why that is the case.... And good luck, keeping it kept....

truly a stairset of doom on that bike, better crack a monny first!

Yeah, that looked MAD sketchy.

@@Ferrari255GTO it's Seth. Mad sketch is his bread and butter

@@alexisrodriguez6526 i'd say that he's less sketchy than this most often

@@Ferrari255GTO nah dude... this is seriously the least sketch, he tried to ride a trail with 3d printed parts

The invention of the safety bicycle was dependent on the invention of several "new" technologies and practical manufacturing techniques. Whilst today they're taken for granted, they simply didn't exist at the time the Penny emerged. The Penny was a fast machine, reliable and the pinnacle of human transport. But things were changing very quickly in manufacturing technology, which meant the Penny only had a decade or so before it was superceded. By contrast, the first "Safety" bikes were complicated beasts, less reliable and only marginally safer.

Obviously; it does have two of them.

The chain drive was the key. Without that, you could only ride faster by scaling up the diameter of the driven wheel. A chain with different sized sprockets decouples the wheel size from rotational speed for a given pedal cadence.

"don't reinvent the wheel" yeah reinvent the hardware around the wheel

Double the wheels, double the fun

Pretty sure they already made a video At whistler

@@EverythingMTB1 Still be really cool if Sam Pilgrim went to Berm Peak one day

Didn't Seth just recently rehab from the last injury?

​@@EverythingMTB1 I remember Seth meeting up with Blake from GMBN. Don't remember Pilgs being in it. It would be cool to see Sam take on the sketchiness that is Berm Peak though.

​@@dvs620 THE DREAM!

Clustered Spires is an absolute riot! I went a few years back and it's such a great time

Just saw this, Greg LeMond was there one year.

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So true! I've seen a lot of videos about the Penny Farthing, but Seth's take was as usual the best mix of entertaining and educational.

It took me a while to figure out you said engaging rather than enraging

It wasnt researched at All

@@Mike-tv9rk making claims with zero backing. 😑

Most pictures are deceiving.

There's a chap who's done around the world rides on a penny and he goes that while dropping into death valley. Joff Somerfield.

I wonder if you could design it where instead of handlebars going out to the sides, there a single steering lever going straight forward. That way, your legs could naturally swing past.

@@CalmoOmlac Some recumbent bikes use a tiller style steering , which is a bit like a reversed stem .

@@CalmoOmlac Thanks for the correction. I too have many bikes but my recumbents are trikes.

@@kudosbudoEd Pratt - his unicycle round the world video series on RU-vid is one of the best sets of videos you can find

I rode one of these as a kid, the most difficult part by far was getting up on it without falling over!

I wish penny farthings and recumbents were both more common.

TheDoh007 So if you were a kid it was a small one like the one in this video?

Guess where he would ride it.

Recumbent?

Recumbent mountain bikes do exist.

It solves a problem that no longer exists thanks to better infrastructure and more advanced technology. It's like looking at an old car that's basically a death trap compared to modern vehicles, "how could anyone ride in these?"

​@@AirLancer well yeah but thats because they didnt understand electricity back then and how to make airbags wagons and carriages had evenly sized wheels for centuries before the first bike, yet they thought "what if we made like a tiny wagon for one person to power with their feet... and what if the wheels were DRASTICALLY different sizes for NO reason"

​@@shybandit521many of the first cars were electric. On the high wheeler you don't require a chain and it has very few moving parts so it's no wonder it predates bikes with chains and gears.

@@timlewis5527 that's true, i should have specified "they don't have as sophisticated of an understanding how to make and use it efficiently like we do now" Also yeah you're right I guess the chains and gears system is pretty innovative and I can see why it took them time to develop it

@@shybandit521 Lots of carriages had rear wheels 50% larger than the front.

That'd be lit ngl

farthing video*

Check out Dutch bikes. Same posture, only with a lower center of gravity and plenty of cargo capacity!

@@garretteverett2613 Also the Pedersen bikes. Virtue Bike has about the cheapest, but there are others that reproduce the original hammock seat if you have the money.

Choppers in general are pretty much this design.

@@KindredBrujahYou're right! I've actually got some sort of Dutch cruiser/chopper hybrid bike and it's definitely comfy. Gonna see how it rides with ape hangers soon. 🦧

Beach Cruisers are like that.

So, this year on the Downhill world championship i'll be running the new -3" rims on the rear with the new tyres from my sponsor Schwalbe, the Magic Mini DH Tubeless tyres on the ultrasoft compound....

@@Ferrari255GTO bet it roles faster than those 27.5 that they ride

@@leepik6027 no shit, there'd be no contact patch. You'd also trip on a pebble and die XD

There was a journalist named Stevens who rode a high wheeler around the world in the 18th century, the book is a great read... I was amazed by how well he could ride over bad roads and even open terrain and fields....

That would be interesting, although it would likely end up being the story of "Clunkers", "Repack" and the famous Marin County mountain bikers. But that wasn't where "all terrain" bicyles started, it's just where one group caught the imagination of several frame builders, and eventually a bicycle manufacturer. Not to diminish their huge global impact on cycling, but their focus was mainly on racing and downhill thrills. Riding specialist and bespoke bikes UP and DOWN mountains and on cross country expeditions etc was already a thing... just on a small scale.

The 19th Century had a massive amount of technological innovations we usually don't even think of. Baking soda for example was only discovered in 1801 and not factory produced until 1846. Before then, you always had to use traditional leavening agents (almost always yeasts) for baking.

You could even have taken a color photo by the end of the century, assuming you were willing to DIY it.

I wanna see sam pilgrim modify his brand new fox 40 forks to fit this bike and shred it

it would, but your leg length would vary so it wouldn't be too practical. I want to see a penny farthing with a LEFTY fork

Yes seen it done. Custom downhill penny-farthing had front and rear squish. It was as bonkers as it sounds.

This is literally the first thing i thought of, a huge ass downhill fork modified to fit 40" rims on a highwheel

@@Ferrari255GTO I would think one of these things would have to be modified with a lot more slack on the front for any sort of downhill.

That's called a death wish 😂

@@luke_said I mean…. So are a lot of Seth’s ideas lol

Big Bang Theory fart porn?

And mainly for having longer legs 😂