User:Digital Ninja

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A Kangaroo with chain drive to allow for a smaller front wheel. The penny-farthing, also known as the high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is a type of bicycle with a large front wheel ... It comes from the British penny and farthing coins, one much larger than the other, so that the side view resembles a penny .... The rider must first grasp the handlebar and place one foot on a peg above the back wheel.