The answer is the world’s fastest penny farthing. Swindon-based engineer ... using handlebar mounted buttons to guide his creation left and right. With that, take two saw greater success ...

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The SuperFarthing may not really be a penny farthing by any definition of the word — it has four wheels and isn’t pedal-powered — but it’s no less impressive a feat of engineering.