Dursley Pedersen
Mikael Pedersen’s bicycle with a triangulated frame and a saddle slung like a hammock.
The Danish inventor Mikael Pedersen lived in England and was unhappy with his bicycle saddle. He designed a saddle that hung like a hammock – and a new frame to carry it, built of thin tubes in triangles.
The frame was very light and strong and looked like no other bicycle. Pedersen was granted a patent in 1893, and the bicycle is still made in small series to his designs.
Materials: Thin steel tubes, saddle of cord or leather
Manufacture: Made in Dursley, Gloucestershire, from the 1890s to about 1917.
The frame of many thin tubes in triangles, as on a bridge.
The saddle hanging between the points of the frame.
The double tubes up to the handlebars.