Who rides Penny-Farthings?

Deutschsprachige Version

 Well, us of course!

By "us", we mean a group of about twenty riders living in and around the City of Vienna. Most of all, we really enjoy riding around on our Penny-Farthings and being high above the local traffic.

But also elsewhere in the world you find people who want to 'ride high'.
If you want to be added to this list, please use this form!

Austria
Burgenland
Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Styria
Tyrol
Europe
Germany
Switzerland
Denmark
Belgium
France
England
Overseas
Canada
USA
Japan
Malaysia
New Zealand
Australia


Vienna

HAE
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"The engineer": who likes to work on new (penny farthing) ideas, and can help you to build and/or assemble your very own penny farthing bicycle.

Walter

"The Historian": Unfortunately Walter is not among us anymore. We will never forget him.

Rossi
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"The tinkerer": who has just finished building his third high wheeler. Rossi recently travelled all around Greece,on his penny farthing, for four months, during the summer of 1999.

Georg

"Our Sprint Champion": The fastest of the penny-farthing sprinters from our group. 5th at the World Championship in Zwettl, Austria, 1998. In Roeselare even finished 2nd.

Robert

"The Architect": Robert finished his first big bike, called the "black hole", in February 2000, and since then is rarely seen off his high-wheeler.

Martin

"The Juggler": Martin has been active in the Austrian penny-farthing scene for a long time. He has participated in the "once-in-a-lifetime", legendary ride from Vienna to Bregenz.

Franz

"The Pensioner": On the first day in his 'retirement', he came into the workshop, and started building himself a penny-farthing bike. Now that has been accomplished, he'll will really enjoy his retirement!

Bobby
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"The changer": ...who, after riding many miles on safety's, has tried a Penny-Farthing and know has received one at his 40'st birthday.

Peter

"The precision tool maker": ... has build his WUK-Mesicek hybrid astonishing fast in the summer of 2001 - and know rides it!

Georg

"The post-man": ...though he claims that his penny farthing is sun-yellow!

Christoph

"The ecologist": Has received a penny farthing from his friends as a reward for the great election- campaign 2001.

Manfred

"The Traveller": Has pedaled his penny farthing bicycle on all the five continents of the world. There are not too many penny riders that have achieved that feat.

Pauli

"The Mole": You can see Pauli here on his first ride on a penny farthing bike. Now he is an experienced and accomplished rider.

Nikolai

"The TV Man": Nickolai purchased the old "tank" from HAE. Now he rides it, with his family, all around the Vienna bicyle-trails.

Alex

"The Fish Salesman": Joined us in the summer of 1999. Alex rides his fire-engine-red penny farthing, on every opportunity he can get.


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