Getting my new bike home on the tube

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It gets worse, I've been looking at monowheels. Apparently fixed is not an option due to the gerbilling effect.

Ten miles onna penny is hard work!

If you can't make it to West Drinks one evening, come on the Dunwich Dynamo! Me and some other people on pennies are going to see if we can ride it.

Hills are... difficult. But not impossible. It's descending that's the real problem.

That sounds like an absolutely brilliant plan. You'll have to push up Finchingfield, and down into Sudbury, as well as probably a few other downhills, but it might just work!

Are Joff and Kat planning to do it, as well?

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.

There's a modern one going for cheap in my local bike shop, which seemed like a fun possibility for a Sunday mess-about bike but you're now putting me off that idea. I thought it'd be like the penny equivalent of a BMX but maybe not.

I love the idea of the originals. I'm just a bit... umm... nervous? It's the idea of having to stop suddenly when nob peds walk under your front wheel etc. Aren't you in danger of flipping over that front wheel and face-planting from a great height if you reflexively slam on the front brake?

Come on, you've sold us the plusses, what about the minuses?

That sounds like an absolutely brilliant plan. You'll have to push up Finchingfield, and down into Sudbury, as well as probably a few other downhills, but it might just work!

Are Joff and Kat planning to do it, as well?

Hell yeah. And my mate Andy, who has the best mutton chop sideburns in the whole world evah.

There's a modern one going for cheap in my local bike shop, which seemed like a fun possibility for a Sunday mess-about bike but you're now putting me off that idea. I thought it'd be like the penny equivalent of a BMX but maybe not.

I love the idea of the originals. I'm just a bit... umm... nervous? It's the idea of having to stop suddenly when nob peds walk under your front wheel etc. Aren't you in danger of flipping over that front wheel and face-planting from a great height if you reflexively slam on the front brake?

Yes.

Come on, you've sold us the plusses, what about the minuses?

^^^ That.

This that I see in West London is not quite as cool as your penny, Charlotte...

...but does it just win on size?

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This that I see in West London is not quite as cool as your penny, Charlotte...

...but does it just win on size?

Giving the true meaning to the term 'space frame' ...

I love the way it's made... Seems to be an upturned man's bike somehow bolted/welded to a girl's bike and then some wierd assembly constructed for the rear wheel-pair.

What gets me, is there seems to be a seat tube still sticking out of the man's bike at the bottom, like he couldn't be bothered to take that out when he made it.

Anyone know this guy?

Just watched the video. Epic stuff.

heh would love to try one sometime.