Pedersen bicycles

There's no thread yet about the wonderful Pedersen design, so here it is.

This frame design was invented by one Mikael Pedersen, a Danish man living in Dursley, Gloucestershire, in 1886, making this the 125th anniversary year. It is an unusual design with a kind of cantilevered fork, a suspended saddle, and paired thin tubes combined with tensioned cables in a vaguely pyramidal form.

Models have been made for racing, touring, doubles & triples, some out of 531. Like recumbents and other unusual designs of HPV, it appears to have a hard core of devotees who collect and build them.

Sadly, Pedersen did not make his fortune with the Dursley Pedersen, but there is a Danish company devoted to building them today. Many if you will have seen one or two around London, I've seen a few locked up and spoken to one gent riding one in West London.

One day I would like to buy one. Anyone else into these badboys?

paging Starry-Mofo

I saw one on Monday up near Goodge St, I'd like to try it out.

Saw one locked up at Euston fairly recently.

They have one (or had one) available for hire at Get Cycling in York (along with many other pedal-powered machines).

http://www.velorution.biz/shop/category/bikes/pedersen/
Some here.
Dont own one, have one I use sometimes that belongs to a friend, they have a new one at Velorution that is the ultimate blend of tradition and modernity, a hard blend to pull off well.

They are a great town ride, really comfortable, good for trips up to about a fifty miler but not amazing on steep hills. Certainly a striking alternative. I like to imagine whole pelotons of them in town, casually bringing the
Scandinavian look to London.

Liked this pic from last year w Penny
(stoking the Tweed Run fires 2011)

I have a Bicycle Quarterly issue with a big article about Pedersen, will scan it in soon.

I'd very much like to try one soon, look so right when someone on it;

Cool^ ^^ ^^^

Ed yes please do, I'd like to read that.

*m.f you and the woman on the ordinary is a great photo. You look so *serious *though, all that shepherding of people wearing wool smelling of wee must have taken it out of you.

Anybody know what size rims they use?
Found out that the wheel sizes vary from different manufacturers of the modern Pedersen-style bikes, a "28 inch" and a 26 I've seen.

Void
Seen that one around often. It might be nice to remove the location from your post, and maybe the one where the PO is visible... bit of an advert...

Buy a nice new one here:
http://www.pedersenbicycle.dk/

I've been seriously tempted to build one every since I first saw one. But I don't think my fillet brazing will be up to the job, and I've been banned from building frames in the house for a while.

I understand each Pedersen were build specifically for each person rather than an OTP frame?

a mechanic mate of mine in Oxford has an '80s copy, full 531, it's utterly gorgeous and apparently rides like a dream; Pedersen also invented a 3-speed hub gear for his bikes which was much less successful than the contemporary Sturmey hubs because of its stupendous mechanical complexity; the original bikes were horrifically expensive, many times more than other makers' top of the range models. lovely bikes

I will own one of these.

Timeshare?

What's the damage on one of these, skullz?

There's a yellow one that I regularly see in Chester, ridden by a betweeded faux Edwardian...

I could do without the dressing up.

Balks, between £1800 and 3k, dep on which builder, transmission etc.

ouch.

Innit.

One was on eBay recently, no bids! Gaaaah.

Bumping this general Pedersen thread to ask if anyone has a medium sized one I could try riding?

I've hankered after one for a long time, thinking of selling a few things to go towards building one - thinking 700s, hydraulic discs, dynamo, a solid mtb sram or xt 1x10, 38mm tyres, rack eyes all over it.

...

Now I'm wondering about having a Pinion gearbox / Belt drive one built ...

not going to help you, but I saw a guy on one down by lambeth bridge about a week or two ago, looks really ungainly, and odd.
But I too would like to try one...

going to help you, but I saw a guy on one down by lambeth bridge about a week or two ago, looks really ungainly, and odd.
But I too would like to try one...

Just saw your post. I dunno about ungainly, I rather think they make the rider look like their body is in a really sensible, comfortable opsition. But odd, yes definitely odd.

I had a short ride on a white one in Soho recently, it felt very different for the spine to be so upright, which was really excellent.

nnnggggg I still hanker after one.

Tried @HobbsTheTiger’s beautiful Cheltenham Pedersen during the summer. Couldn’t quite cope with the prospect of 594 rims or whatever that old 26 x 1&1/4 size is, don’t fancy finding tyres for that.

I amazed how light it was. Got me thinking I’d like to weightweenie one of them somehow. Pedersen was all about innovation, why not stick carbon all over one? Hah!