The bike above might look like something from the pages of a child's sketchbook, but what you are looking at is possibly one of the most comfortable upright bicycles ever designed and made, and the simple fact that the design has remained largely unchanged since 1893 tells its own story.

Mr Pedersen was a Dane who moved to the UK in that year, who once there patented the design for the 'Dursley-Pedersen'. In these early years the Pedersen proved remarkably popular, with 30,000 produced in Britain between 1896 and 1922. Times were changing though, with more 'conventional' frames easier to build, and in 1929 the death of Pedersen in his native Denmark saw the marque gradually disappear from view.

That was, however, until 1978 when Jesper Solling brought the Copenhagen Pedersen to life, and since then the Pedersen has become, while still rare, a joyful thing to see, with its cantilever frame (once explained in advertising materil extolling the virtue of the Forth Bridge) quite simply a marvel of engineering.

But the best is yet to come, because you can try a Pedersen for absolutely nothing through the company itself. Order the bike from them and you'll have two weeks to try it out and see what you think, and if you don't like it (which we're assured never really happens) Pedersen will arrange for it to be picked up again at their expense.

Now that on its own has to be worth visiting their website!

If you've seen a bike that you think we should be covering as our bike of the month, it can be a new bike, an old favourite, something completely out of the ordinary, just drop us a line at:
botm@citycycling.co.uk