Andy_W of the Æther Emporium sent me a surfeit of links after our last post about steam bikes, so I’ll repeat the best ones here:

• The above, lovely photograph of a steam powered penny-farthing style bicycle and proud owner (and rightly so).

• Another, same model black and white photograph of a penny-farthing cycle, steam propelled.

• The mysterious ‘Pete’s Steam Bike‘ – owner as yet unknown and details surprisingly scarce.

• And lastly a link to the Patent Pending Blog – a quite stunning list of entries about steam powered vehicles both real and (in the singular case of Steam Man) imagined. Bikes, trikes, buggies, automobiles, buses, carriages, boats and amphibious devices.

I wonder if such cycles would be allowed on the streets today. It’d be a shame to have to wear a cycle helmet with them.