Penny Farthing Bugle

Edwin Davey, riding a penny farthing over Lambeth Bridge in London, and blowing a bugle to warn of his approach. Penny farthings were the rst machine to be known as a ‘bicycle’, rst becoming popular in the 1870s. Although it became virtually obsolete from the 1880s – thanks to modern bicycles being developed and being much safer – there remains to this day a number of dedicated penny-farthing enthusiasts. As recently as 2018, records were still being set on penny farthings, when Mark Beaumont, a Scottish cyclist, set the British record for the longest distance travelled in an hour, covering 21.92 miles at the Herne Hill Velodrome in Surrey. He narrowly missed the world record by just 290 yards.