The Beamish Museum's replica "hen-and-chickens" pentacycle, which Edward Burstow designed in 1882 as a mail delivery vehicle for the British post office, sits in the museum bike shop. It was meant to combine the penny-farthing bicycle's speed with higher stability and carrying capacity, but did not climb hills well or stop easily, and the driving wheel often came off the ground on rough roads. After trials in Horsham, the post office decided not to adopt the pentacycle. I was shown the replica pentacycle on a guided tour of the bike shop when I visited Beamish in September 2018.