STORY: Local media said competitors from as far afield as Germany and New Zealand had come to the small town of Knutsford, south of Manchester, for "The Great Race." Over three hours of racing, riders ...

BASF, a German chemical company that specializes in manufacturing plastics, has developed Concept 1865, an e-bike inspired by the design of a penny-farthing, a 148-year-old bicycle design. BASF, a ...

July 23 (UPI) --A Canadian woman with a talent for riding big-wheeled bikes broke two speed records at an Australian track while pedaling a penny farthing. Lizanne Wilmot climbed her Victorian-style ...

This monstrosity, owned by bike collector Richard Loncraine, is a modern take on the penny-farthing bike (or P-Far, as the Bike Snob would call it). The bike looks to be very well made, but also ...

A DUBLIN resident took the cycle to work idea to a whole new level in the capital today, leaving onlookers baffled. Footage captured along Dublin’s Grand Canal left residents in disbelief and slightly ...

What do you get when you combine alcohol, exercise and thousands of dollars and then take away the exercise? Why, Hendrick’s Gin’s giant stationary penny farthing exercise bike, of course. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Paul Brekus is used to the gazes, the waves, the heads tilting in wonderment, eyes bulging out of people’s heads like in a cartoon, as he rides through the ...

Words: Daniel Johansson. This feature was originally published in issue 385 of Cycling Plus magazine. I’d waited a long time for this. Not just the extra year’s delay, enforced by the pandemic, but ...

Five Guinness World Records were broken at a London cycling event on 13 June, featuring penny farthings of all sizes and a ...