Pedersen bicycle

[3] Their unusual frame is described as pure cross,[4] was marketed as cantilever,[5] and features a distinctive hammock-style saddle.

[3] Pedersen received a patent in the United Kingdom for his bicycle in the early 1890s and constructed the first model out of wood.

It provides suspension from road imperfections with much less weight, 4 ounces (110 g) instead of 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of traditional leather and steel spring saddles of the day.

Pedersen then developed a frame, a truss assembled from several thin tubes, around his new seat design.

Pedersen also received patents for a chainwheel and bottom bracket combination and lightweight pedals.

Dursley Pedersen bicycle circa 1910
Mikael Pedersen, the inventor
A pictorial explanation of the famous cantilever Forth Rail Bridge that Pedersen used to market his frame design