Is it still possible to use a penny-farthing today? The answer is an emphatic yes, at least if you’re former Special Forces officer and adventurer Neil Laughton. He rode his Victorian high wheeler
for 400 miles across war-torn Ukraine, doing everything from making pizza for local children to raising money for charity. Here he tells his tale.
I dismounted from my penny-farthing in the heart of Makariv, a provincial Ukrainian town 35 miles west of the capital, Kyiv,…