I love how they invented the penny farthing bicycle and it was super unstable and dangerous and then FINALLY they realized “wait. Why don’t we just make the wheels the same fucking size???” And thus the “safety bicycle” (aka a normal fucking bike) was born
like they really thought of THIS:
Before they thought of this:
it was the victorian era, everyone was on crack
Out of all the pretentious reblogs about engineering and bike history this post inspired, this is by far the best