Coeur d'Alene's Julian Redman takes a break from riding his penny-farthing bike in upstate New York outside of Little Falls. He completed his journey from San Francisco to Boston on the Fourth of July. (Courtesy photo via Coeur d'Alene Press)

After enduring a goose attack, sore hind end, knee pain and Nevada's Donner Pass, it only seemed fitting that Julian Redman should finally be rewarded with rolling into Boston on his penny-farthing bike on the Fourth of July.

The single 28-year-old Coeur d'Alene man completed the 3,333-mile trek from San Francisco to Boston in 44 days, retracing the feat of British adventurer Thomas Stevens in 1884.

"I wouldn't trade the experience for the world," Redman said. "That said, I would not do it again/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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