TWO friends from Henley will take on a charity ride from Land’s End to John o’ Groats on penny-farthings. Matt Richardson, of Deanfield Avenue, and Bill Pollard, of Deanfield Road, both 59, will cycle ...

A recent event in London has been home to several Guinness world record-setting and breaking attempts. Neatly enough, it all revolves around the penny-farthing bicycle. It's also the largest ...

Richie Mason is riding 50 miles for charity on his penny farthing A penny farthing cyclist is preparing to ride 50 miles (80km) to raise funds for a charity that supports vulnerable young people.

We've taken a step back in time for this eBay Find: a genuine, 1886 penny-farthing built by the esteemed Beeston, Nottingham, UK bike-builder, Humber. The '1:1' gearing of the direct-drive, ...

It might sound strange to say that a sewing machine, a factory in Coventry and a trip to France shaped how the world moves today. But these three things led to an invention which hundreds of thousands ...

Jeremy Vine was forced to miss his Channel 5 show on Wednesday after suffering a black eye having fallen off his penny farthing. Despite penny farthings being from a different century, Jeremy is 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 ...

People who ride penny farthings are weirdos, says Lizanne Wilmot — and she's the fastest weirdo of them all. On New Year's Eve, the Canadian-born cyclist broke the world record for fastest speed on a ...

If there was ever a more iconic bicycle than the Penny Farthing, we'd know about it. Well, that might just be the case with Guillaume Bout and his take on this timeless design. Folks, I don't expect ...