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Shire velocipede, 1879, from the Smithsonian Collection.
(Catalog #: 248,087, Accession #: 47,898)
“This velocipede was donated to the Smithsonian in 1907. It was built at a rather late date for this type of vehicle: the high, wire-wheeled Ordinary was already on the market by 1879.”
(The velocipede was photographed in 1914 with Smithsonian Curator George C. Maynard.)
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More priesticles. Maybe after all these bike shots we should have a Priest-Off?
Father Grundner (c. 1880s)
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> Another lovely man with his bike.
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George Carter on Penny Farthing Bicycle (by North Ormesby Community History Group
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A pipe AND riding a penny farthing? This man has it all down…respect.
Only thing that would make it more impressive is if he juggled at the same time, or his hat was on fire.
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Oh dear. Shouldn’t laugh, but those penny-farthing’s were dangerously high, it’s kind of comically inevitable, laws of gravity and all that…
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Those magificent men and their cycling machines…
Those magificent men and their cycling machines…
At the velocipede training college
via Online Archive of California
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Bearded Bike Lady! Madame Delait (here Delay for some reason) again, sans plate thankfully. More about bearded ladies here: http://missioncreep.com/mundie/gallery/gallery2.htm