The development of penny-farthing moved away from the utilitarian goal of earlier forms, with its less stable ride, and difficulty carrying much baggage.
Moreover, the hand gesture resembles the show's revolving penny-farthing bicycle logo.
On one occasion, he caused uproar when he appeared in the local suq on a penny-farthing bicycle, never before seen in those parts.
He began cycle-racing at 17 on a penny-farthing, a traditional bicycle on which he sat above a 55-inch wheel, a smaller wheel following.
He bought his first bicycle, a penny-farthing when he was 28, in 1881.
One cannot make commercial decisions on the ground that they are socially desirable, because one eventually ends up making penny-farthing bikes in the development areas because that is socially desirable.
Yet we allow a situation to develop in the most human problem which we face—dealing with our old, sick and poverty-stricken—which shows that we are still in the penny-farthing era.
Then, if the feared adverse circumstances arose, and some of the farthings in the penny-farthing relationships got wobbly and might not be salvageable, the orders could be amended.
