Cool Vintage Photos of Victorian People Posing With Their Penny-Farthings
The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a “bicycle”. It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds (owing to it traveling a large distance for every rotation of the legs) and comfort (the large wheel provides greater shock absorption). Continue reading »
Stunning Vintage Photographs Of The Early Teen Bicycle Messengers In 1908-1917
In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document the exploitative working conditions of child laborers in dozens of occupations, from mining and manufacturing to farming and newspaper selling. Among the many workers he captured were bicycle messengers in several southern cities. Continue reading »
Stunning Photos Capture Bicycles From Underneath In Rarely Seen Angles
Lithuanian photographer Andrius Burba (previously featured) uses a special glass-tabled photography stand to capture how bicycles look from underneath. How’s that for some new perspective? Continue reading »
Slash Of Guns N’ Roses Got His Own Custom Bike Created By Adam Zdanowicz Of Mad Bicycles
Slash’s bike is a custom made one-off inspired by his guitar, the BC Rich Mockingbird. The idea of a surprise gift came from a Polish music celebrity Doda. Polish craftsman Adam Zdanowicz of Mad Bicycles created the concept and gave it wheels. Continue reading »
Belarusian Company Began Production Of Wooden Bicycles
Wooden sunglasses, wooden phone cases, looks like demand for everything wooden rose these days. And now this Belarus company started making wooden bicycles. Let’s see what those are about and how they look like. Continue reading »
Designer Turns Ridiculous Sketches Of Bicycles Into Realistic Designs
Designer Gianluca Gimini went around with a pen and paper, asking strangers, friends, and family to draw him a normal bicycle from memory. Hundreds of drawings and more than five years later, Gimini renders the collected drawings as real bicycles in a project called ‘Velocipedia’. Continue reading »
