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NASCAR fans are taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, to react to Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s announcement on Monday evening. The ...
Fifty-five cyclists will ‘pedal to the medal’ this Saturday at Frederick’s 11th annual National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race. Competitors this year range in age from 17 to 75 and hail from 12 ...
Historic downtown Frederick turns back the clock this Saturday at noon for its 11th annual National Clustered High Wheel ...
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High wheel bicycles, also known as penny farthings, became popular in the 1880s. The bikes, with their distinctive large front wheel and small rear wheel, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE — When confronted with one of Keith Pariani's 19th-century high-wheel bicycles — with its front wheel more than 4½ feet high, with a kid's-sized back wheel, and with its leather ...
More than 75 riders gathered at the Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May on Tuesday to show the public how to a ride a high-wheel bike, known as a penny-farthing, as part of the 57th annual meeting of ...
The men of the Harvard Bicycle Club pose for an 1885 photo with their high-wheelers — precursors to the modern-day bicycle. The oldest collegiate cycling club in the country, the HBC was both an ...
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - He's become a bit of a celebrity around West Allis. You might know the man who rides around on an old-time, high-wheel bike. Recently, that bike was stolen. SIGN UP TODAY: Get ...
Now, at 68, Pariani still rides a high-wheel bicycle (this one has a brake) just about every morning on an 11- or 12-mile loop through St. Augustine's narrow streets. "It's not that far," he insists.