You’ll have to get used to these if you have one  Ever heard of a penny farthing? Perhaps you have, if you landed here. A penny farthing is a specific type of odd bike, one of the first, actually, with a large front wheel and a smaller, trailing rear wheel. This actually yields the name, though that is a topic for a different time. Anyway, learning to ride an odd bike like this is...

Minibikes and clown circus bikes are popular as novelties and are also attractive to trick riders and others who like to perform stunts. To be fair, they are not without their charm and learning to ride one is not easy. There is a challenge involved, trick riding or not, that makes them all the more appealing to some riders. But if you are going to get an odd bike, don’t make it one of...

There’s not much complexity involved in the engineering of a unicycle, which means there are in turn relatively few parts, and of those that there are, many are basically the same as what the bike industry uses. This means two things: there aren’t too many opportunities for making upgrades, and if you need parts, they’re usually not too hard to find. This being the case,...