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Tips for Riding in the Snow
Want to take your unicycle or Odd bike in the snow? Winter is one of the best times of the year, and don’t you think otherwise. Not only is it an aesthetically pretty season, but all that “bad” weather will have most people sitting inside. Which makes this the perfect time of year for enterprising […]
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3 Things Odd Bikes Different
You’ll have to get used to these if you have one Ever heard of a penny farthing? Perhaps you have, if you landed here. A penny farthing is a specific type of odd bike, one of the first, actually, with a large front wheel and a smaller, trailing rear wheel. This actually yields the name, […]
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Why You Need to Be Careful When Braking Some Odd Bikes
Have you ever heard the term “taking a header?” In the unlikely event that you have, are you familiar with the origin of the term? It’s a bit more arcane than you might have expected. It originates from lingo associated with the penny farthing, a certain species of odd bike that developed in Europe in […]
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Odd Bikes: Sizing a Penny-Farthing
Have you ever seen one of those bikes with the comically oversized front wheels, with a smaller wheel at the rear? The ones that lacks a chain? You were probably looking at a very specific odd bike known as a penny-farthing, one of the first machines that was ever properly referred to as a “bicycle.” […]
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