Getting my new bike home on the tube

Apart from the fact that it's a proper old-style HOOGE penny, what made you pick that monster in favour of one of the 36" front wheel moden-style ones with pneumatic tyres etc? Did you try them both and prefer the old one? Authenticity? Quirkiness?

Enquiring minds need to know... :-)

The "modern" ones are just horrid, for so many reasons. The small wheel means you can't really pedal fast enough and they just look wrong.

My one looks fairly authentic, but it is in fact quite up to date in the way it's built. Original Pennies would have radial spoking (yes, really). Mine has sixty four spokes and is built five-cross for strength. The modern alloy rims and Greentyres mean that it rides well and is much more durable. It even has an inch and a quarter A-headset... The bloke who built it rode round the world on his!

If you want a homebrew Penny on the cheap, you could always do what my mate Andy did...

www.pennyfakething.com