Pedersen bicycles

read that Christiania Pedersen made their first for a British customer way back in 2014

Very possible as this was taken in June 2016

Looking at that photo more closely, interesting that the Pedersen fork is rated for disc brakes.

I am not surprised. I had a Jones plus with Truss fork and 29+ wheels and the front was ridiculously precise.

Looking at Ben-Kinetics site the picture of the one I posted looks more like a Kemper-Pedersen?

Yep I know Kemper offers discs, not sure about Christiania.

Ah, mixing my Pinions & Rohloffs up!

Ha, it's all euro internally-geared loveliness!

So, it’s a deal. Collecting this tomorrow. Gulp.

Exciting. Do you have an idea of what you want to do with it?

We expect a Pedersen tag soon!

Photos riding it home then ;)

Congrats.

Ride it pretty much as is for now. Skinnier tyres & mudguards.

Maybe one day smaller wheels, rim brakes, mech, 1x10, dynamo. ££££

Maybe only of Cantilevered things.

Come with me!

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Yes!

:)
Currently realising that even switching tyres on wheels with hub brakes/hub gears is a PITA. I don’t know the first thing. Now I know why previous owner put 40c Marathons on there.

Exciting!

How's this shaping up @Skülly?

Hey!
Stripped it. Hate the hub gear/roller brakes. Unbelievably heavy, and twist shifter basically fucked. Horrid cranks too. Hopefully the hub gear will sell to someone who obsesses about Japan-made shimano, it’s very shiny and works fine. Quite a rare Mavic touring rim on the front so I think I’ll try ebaying them in bits or as a wheelset.

Clearances are maxed out for 700 x 28 + mudguards, so I’ve decided to have canti posts added at 650b height (might even stretch to Magura rimbrakes which would be very appropriate for that Danish vibe). Going to add some zits up front, can’t quite figure out what to do though ... want bottle cages, maybe bigger gear cages, would quite like something to mount a decaleur, have a rare 80s constructeur rack I want to use with saddle/bar bags up front.
Original steel bar-stem thing isn’t as heavy as I had thought, so my initial plan to chop down a steel dutch quill and use alloy bars may not be needed. But the overall idea is lighter, slick 650b, alloy mudguards, have a SON I can use so some smallish dyno lights needed.

Front mechs are a bodge on Pedersens, would take a framebuilder who really wanted to get it right, to get this right. So line of least resistance seems to be (given oldschool dropouts) 1x10, as wide ratio as I can make some old frankenparts I have lying around reach. Haven’t quite figured out cranks/ring. Excited!

Sounds like you've got some good plans for it.

Looking forward to seeing this

Decided to put off brazing brake posts on til I have the actual wheels & tyres ready to fit.

Finally just finished wheels build, waited aaages for slightly fancy spokes (think seller didn’t post them when they claimed tbh)...
Pacenti Brevet 650b, laced with D-lite to repurposed Son28 and new Hope RS4. Hoping to make this 10sp Deore with a mahoosive 46t work, bit unsure I’ll have the reach for it as planned. We’ll see.

Have purdy mudguards ready too. I am excite.

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Frame and forks are now at Winston's workshop, measuring up to braze the brake posts on for 650b. Decided to add a whole bunch of zits on the fork (for bottles/gear cages) which run upwards in threes on the rear of the front fork tubes ascending from the brake guide plate thing. I'm using rack boss/barrels at a faint inward angle, and iuntending on using the inner threading of the upper one to mount a decaleur, and the lower one to mount a nice 80s constructeur alloy mini-rack I have.

On the front right fork blade, I'm having some mudguard eyes brazed on flat to repurpose as grippers for dyno cable up to the mudguard, will route cables to front light along the inside of the mudgurad, just got hold of some 3mm rubber grommets to prevent cable damage. More of the mudguard eye grippers will run from top to bottom of the left downtube, and one on the back of the BB. I'll be adding dome headed bolts to grip the cable, probably with tiny PClips or another solution I'm considering using cup washers with in and out grooves cut across them with the cable kinked around the inside of the washer.

Still thinking about paint colour, cranks and one or two details.

Thinking about a dark tobacco metallic powder.

I’d even ride over to Broxly to see this!

Sounds exciting! What bars will go on this?

@snowy_again I will inform you and we'll go for a beer on top of one of our brilliant hills with a view round here. I will be riding up them seated, a bit like you in your mum's Renault 4 round the houses.

@Sig_Arlecchino I have the original integrated steel stem/bar, it's a funny affair with zero reach. Not as insanely heavy as I thought it would be, but am considering switching for some alloy bars and as small a stem as I can find. Thing is, they look wrong with a normal stem, and right with the no-reach integrated thingy. the alloy parts I've got are about 500g, original is nearer a kilo. Bars are a bit uneven/ warped, from being dropped I reckon, hoping to ask Winston to help me put them closer to the original shape, then paint same as the frame (as they are now, a bottle green I am not keen on. Why did everyone in the 90s paint tourers etc bottle green!? Not my cuppa tea).