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title: Electric Penny Bicycle
date: 2015-01-28T23:03:12+00:00
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# Electric Penny Bicycle

Here are a few [photos of the electric *“Penny-farthing”* bicycle](https://www.flickr.com/photos/kasparsdambis/sets/72157648172309054/ "Photos of an electric Penny bike") that I designed and built. I call it the *fixie* of electric bicycles — no chain, no pedals, just awesome.

It all started last summer with the first prototype that I created during a weekend for testing the wireless control system for electric vehicles that I’m currently working on.

![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_1527.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=1024,683)The final revision.![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0389.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=1024,1024)Prototype![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_1139.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=1024,1024)Final revision build.![](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_1599.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=1024,1024)Me on the finished bike.