That’s called a Safety Bike. Notice that the little wheel is in the front and the guy in the background has a Standard Bike. The picture is from a stunt done to show how safe those bikes were. They rode it down the steps of the capital building in Washington DC.
I worked at a bike shop in college. We had a Penny Farthing (like the bike in the background of photo) displayed in the window.
On a dare, I rode it a little more than a block down to 7-11 to get a Big Gulp.
I now realize that I should include some fiction to make my story more internet friendly.
At a stop light, this lady jumped out of the sunroof of a limo. She was screaming “BINGO MY ASS” over and over toward the general direction of the limo. She then knocked me off the Penny Farthing, grabbed the Big Gulp (diet pepsi in case you care) out of my hand. She mounted that huge wheeled antique bicycle and rode towards downtown Seattle…”BINGO MY ASS….BINGO MY ass…BINGO my ass….bingo my ass……”
Concept art for a prequel to”Jackass: The Movie”.
Would have been much easier if bikes had seats back then.
That’s called a Safety Bike. Notice that the little wheel is in the front and the guy in the background has a Standard Bike. The picture is from a stunt done to show how safe those bikes were. They rode it down the steps of the capital building in Washington DC.
So the gut with the big ass wheel in the front would soon go ass over tits. Is that the idea?
I need to proof read.
“Why can’t they just put a damn telegraph in the Capitol? Cheap bastards!”
“I’m a velocipede jackolator!”
I worked at a bike shop in college. We had a Penny Farthing (like the bike in the background of photo) displayed in the window.
On a dare, I rode it a little more than a block down to 7-11 to get a Big Gulp.
I now realize that I should include some fiction to make my story more internet friendly.
At a stop light, this lady jumped out of the sunroof of a limo. She was screaming “BINGO MY ASS” over and over toward the general direction of the limo. She then knocked me off the Penny Farthing, grabbed the Big Gulp (diet pepsi in case you care) out of my hand. She mounted that huge wheeled antique bicycle and rode towards downtown Seattle…”BINGO MY ASS….BINGO MY ass…BINGO my ass….bingo my ass……”
That happens every fucking time I go to Seattle. That’s why I live in Tacoma.
jtb
“Goddamn Shawn White is always showboating. Let him ram that steel up his ass before you let him know that’s not actually going to be a medal event.”
I see nuts being ripped from their hinges.
Seems to me an episode of South Park hinged on this concept. Way to go mister fancy pants… Don’t get yer nickers caught in the spokes.
Poor Santa.
Swing for the fence!
Big wheel keep on turnin’, ass cheeks keep on burn in’…