That old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Inasmuch as the pennyfarthing or "p-far" is roughly 140 years old, and its predecessor, the so-called "boneshaker," is not much older, one wonders what sort of conveyance a bike messenger could possibly have been riding back in 1810, when even the crotch-torturing "dandyhorse" was but a phantom throbbing in inventor Karl Drais's "pants yabbies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Were: The Future's So "Meh" I Gotta Wear Pom Poms] Reference

Mr Armstrong had gone for the day to visit one of his very few old college friends on the other side of the county, and Tom, released from his lessons (the captain's animosity for the tutor, by the way, stopped short at withdrawing his son from the benefit of the gratuitous education of which for the last year that youth had been the recipient) was trundling a "boneshaker" bicycle along the Yeld lanes, when he perceived the jaunty form of Mr Ratman, bag in hand and cigar in mouth, strolling leisurely in the direction of Maxfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Ingleton, Minor] Reference

I have seen alot of positive reviews of boneshaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugo Nominations] Reference

Tom Nuttall's boneshaker was at the center of Deadwood's big plot turn this season.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bicycle Masters Boardwalk And Quagmire With Aplomb...] Reference

If you'd like a boneshaker all your own there are companies making modern replicas.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bicycle Masters Boardwalk And Quagmire With Aplomb...] Reference

Though I'm not quite sure it was a boneshaker, which are made of wood, with wooden wheels shod in iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bicycle Masters Boardwalk And Quagmire With Aplomb...] Reference

When I saw this, I thought of boneshaker, and your comments about control over the finished product and lack thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday afternoon wrap-up] Reference

If you flipped the mogo frame upside down and stuck a 36er unicycle through the headset you'd have a sweet boneshaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rest-Day Roundup: Stealing Seconds and Stealing Bikes] Reference

These photos rattled me like a pair of testicles astride a boneshaker, though I confess I was amused to find a Scattante among the victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's The Rub: Marketing Gone Amok Awry] Reference

They were forgetting the old ways, and there were those among them who left the dregs of their life behind them when they moved on, their caravans towed by boneshaker lorries, not horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear] Reference

Both the boneshaker and the penny farthing are hi-wheel bikes, with pedals welded directly to the huge front wheel large to allow for more distance with each revolution, a seat mounted way up the frame and a tiny rear wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bicycle Masters Boardwalk And Quagmire With Aplomb...] Reference

Just under three hours from Kings X to Newcastle Central as opposed to 2.5 hours KX to Darlington then an interminable wait for the boneshaker from the Bishop Auckland to Saltburn line which will drop you off in the Boro after around another 40 minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor] Reference

The man who sold toffee apples from a tray he hawked on a tray in front of a boneshaker bike!.    From Wordnik.com.  [London SE1 community website] Reference

True, it was probably the first boneshaker that had ever attacked the gravity of St. Luke's Square.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

She saw him vividly, a little boy, whizzing down King Street on a boneshaker, and his cap flying off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

Samuel found himself suddenly admitted, as it were, to the inner fellowship of the boneshaker, exalted above the rest of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

He is Master Ropemaker at Chatham's historic dockyard, and he rides his old boneshaker up and down the quarter-mile-long rope walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

I began to be acutely anxious about the old boneshaker, the more as we seemed a long way short of the village I had proposed to spend the night in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

Once you've wedged the earbuds in, you'll enjoy a reasonable amount of noise isolation which might come in handy if you have to suffer a boneshaker bus commute every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digital-Lifestyles] Reference

One morning in March, a boneshaker, an affair on two equal wooden wheels joined by a bar of iron, in the middle of which was a wooden saddle, disturbed the gravity of St. Luke's Square.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Danger]

Well, all the necessary instructions are provided here, so read on to find out how you can spruce up that old boneshaker of yours into one funky scoother that is able to offer GPS navigation, a pirated radio station and even enough power to juice up an electric guitar so that you can play songs via the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ubergizmo] Reference

I first laid awestruck ragamuffin's eyes on this locally-famed and tweedy Lordship that same 1948 summer when we'd pushed our boneshaker bikes up Nailsworth Hill feudally to enjoy his established annual bumpkins 'beano, the midsummer Sunday cricket match alongside the great house in aid of Gloucestershire county cricket's beneficiary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

4 Look at your mad father on his boneshaker fraywhaling round Myriom square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference

What! A boneshaker, his cousin, and then this!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

20-year-old boneshaker and wobbled across Waterloo Bridge to the assembly point on London's South Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Just after the steampunk-zombie-a-thon that is boneshaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Canticle by Ken Scholes] Reference

I read this recently - my review is here: https://andrewliptak.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/boneshaker-by-cherie-priest/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not my Hugo-ish Cup of Tea] Reference

Thanks & don't worry, anon 3:28pm...i play left wing on the bsnyc/rtms hockey team...i just wanna go down the ice a crush a few bodies in the 'boneshaker' end of the rink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round and Round: In Search of Direction] Reference

Hailfellow some wellmet boneshaker or, to ascertain the facts for herself, run up your showeryweather once and trust and take the Drumgondola tram and, wearing the midlimb and vestee endorsed by the hierarchy fitted with ecclastics, bending your steps, pick a trail and stand on, say, Aston’s, I advise you strongly, along quaith a copy of the Seeds and Weeds Act when you have procured one for your - self and take a good longing gaze into any nearby shopswindow you may select at suppose, let us say, the hoyth of number eleven, Kane or Keogh’s, and in the course of about thirtytwo minutes’ time proceed to turn aroundabout on your heehills to-wards the previous causeway and I shall be very cruelly mis — taken indeed if you will not be jushed astunshed to see how you will be meanwhile durn weel topcoated with kakes of slush occasioned by the mush jam of the cross and blackwalls traffic in transit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference