BDA780 Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Stunning absolutely stunning!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelies Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 awesome. OS blog post penny farthing build? then people will think we're all this slick! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Pop a wheelie aue 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1RTY6 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I received this snap today.... wasnt you was it haha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N3K Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 ... Wow. Man that thing looks like a b*tch to ride! Â Â But the craftsmanship.. astonishing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ned Posted October 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2015 [click me] 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Star Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Like a goddamn sir! Nice work man, way beyond anything I could even consider crafting... don't tell anyone you are from here, they will expect all our shit to look amazing and work and stuff 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted October 8, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2015 Thanks for all the awesome comments guys! The place that we are staying at tonight in Rakaia has internet access so i can catch up on a few things. The ride is going extremely well so far and i am very pleased with how the bike is going, no problems yet and i think we have done a bit over 100km now. We went out to Erewhon station yesterday and had a good tour around which was cool. Tomorrow is the big day with a bit over 80km to do so i am looking foward to that. I have managed to master a few tricks now like no hands riding, peddle dismounts, coasting down a hill with legs over the bars and I am getting the hang of balancing on the thing stationary. Oh yes the newspaper article, The lies!!! its amazing what these reporters seem to be able to pull out of thin air haha although he did get most of the things i told him right. DIRTY6 yes that pic is of one of the 6 other penny farthing riders on the tour, there are also about 16 vintage safety bicycle aswell. Anyway thats my internet just about up, I will put some pics up of the ride next week when i get home. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo999 Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Great to meet you today at the Christchurch swap-meet, The bike looks absolutely stunning in real life, well done on the ride. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.QCR Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Was great to meet you too today ! The bike is so amazing in real life and thanks heaps for letting my ride the Penny Farthing a few times as well ! Gotta jump one of them down the qcr for building soon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valiant Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Your bike looks great well done. I saw it today, sorry I missed you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted October 15, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2015 Yeah it was very cool to meet up with some of you OS guys st the swap meet!  From what I heard Friday was the day to be there, lots of veteran and vintage motorcycle stuff that was all sold by Saturday.  The ride details were: Day 1 was Arundel to Mt Somers, 25km. Day 2 was Erewhon to Mt Somers, 25km, We had an awesome tail wind and we probably had to only pedal 3km of that distance! Day 3 was Mt Somers to Rakaia 50km and the last day was Leeston to little river via a cycle trail around lake Ellesmere 50km. It was such an awesome event i can highly recommend it for anyone who is into old bicycles.  Here are a few pics from the ride  The 2 trailers with all the bikes loaded up    Here are 2 of the 3 really nice Dursley Pedersen replicas that were on the ride  Canturbury plains  Re tyring a rear wheel on the side of the road after the tension wire through the center broke     At the start of the cycle trail at Motukarara  Chris having a go at swapmeet     A shot with one of the sweet traction engines at swapmeet  Rakaia Tavern  Stack  line up  There are a heap more photos on the Oamaru ordinary cycle club FB page if anyone is interested too   Time to get onto some of the other projects......         14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N3K Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Dressed to suit. Diggin it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Did any one take a Thomas stevenson inspired touring outfit? Plans for next project? Want to lend me one and ride the length of NZ for charity or something? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelies Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 oh that's bloody awesome. shame you ran in to that chris guy but whatever 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 N3k, yes the main requirement to go on the tour was that you had to be dressed in a period costume for the whole event. Most of the penny farthing events overseas and especially in Australia everybody on a penny farthing seems to be wearing lycra which isn't a very good look so the Oamaru club has made it mandatory to wear period gear in the events.  I don't know about the Thomas Stevenson outfit Tortron but the ride has been going on for nearly 20 years now so i imagine it has been done. Plans for the next project, i have a few on the go at the moment. My BSA bantam racer is leaning against the wall looking very sad after over a year of not being worked on now so i might get back into that, I am also doing a rebuild on a small home built plane with a friend of mine and restoring a vintage Vincent water scooter so i have a fair bit of stuff to keep me busy. Have you heard of David Wilson? he rode the length of NZ a couple of years ago on a penny, i think it took him a couple of months, obviously not much of a challenge compared to what you have done!  Yeah it sure was awesome Steelies, it might be an event for next year as well 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAPNUT Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Wow the bike looks amazing! Very good job mate, looks very good 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 Thanks man, im looking foward to getting that norman off you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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