Penny Farthing Enthusiasts Gather To Break World Records

I call it the bike that makes people smart

At the moment we feel stable. Does anyone not feel stable? I mean, emotionally

Nobody falls over. It's great to be here at Herne Hill Velodrome

at the start of the Penny Farthing Guinness World Record Breaking Extravaganza

the largest gathering of Penny Farthing riders and races in London since 1880

Three Guinness World Records have been broken on this track in the last few hours. Melissa Eisdell and the female solo one hour furthest distance

She achieved 26.1 kilometres in the hour. And two no-handed one kilometre records, one female Evie Dumont from Belgium

And yours truly from Great Britain. I was one of the first acts on furthest distance in an hour There is an art right Penny Farthing There are different techniques It highly technical I sufficiently ignorant that I don take into account that your average person sees a penny farthing and thinks

Crikey, isn't that one of the things that crazy Victorian ceased to ride. I probably need to educate myself on the fact that it is slightly unusual

We're absolutely delighted to be supporting the bike project, a charity that provides

It provides bicycles and bike training for refugees and displaced people. It's a fabulous charity

Alberto Bono, he's going to ride for one hour on this track with one pedal on his bike

New Guinness World Record attempt. Nobody's ever tried it before. A brand new challenge

You had to cover a minimum of 12 kilometres. That was our challenge to you. Yes

You did a final distance of 20, point 294. So congratulations You are officially Amazing You are officially a Guinness World Record holders Four or five Guinness World Records for speed

For endurance. And largest group of penny-fathers on a racetracketrake

Avey, a repeat record holder, came back, amazingly got to 38.09 kilometres now

So congratulations, Avey. Smashed. Well done, here we go. Then Roger for the male record and he achieved 39 kilometres now so also officially amazing Guy Bannam stepped in felt he could challenge this record he then had a mark to beat and despite the rain you averaged

41.56 kilometres an hour so also officially amazing. Hello they're officially amazing so

this certificate doesn't stay too long unfortunately with Roger as Guy has just matched it out of the park

to a world record attempt at a stack one hundred and three

31 plus riders stationary sitting on a bike self supporting in a big line. It could be also the largest ever dominoes collapse in history

Don't move. 37, 38, 49, 140

140! to be amazing