It was not the Gay 90s in which the penny-farthing bicycle ruled but the 1870s and 1880s. The tall-wheeled vehicle was invented in 1869. It’s production ended in 1893 having supplanted by the modern “safety-bicycle” invented five years earlier.
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It was not the Gay 90s in which the penny-farthing bicycle ruled but the 1870s and 1880s. The tall-wheeled vehicle was invented in 1869. It’s production ended in 1893 having supplanted by the modern “safety-bicycle” invented five years earlier.