By 1898 Mikael Pedersen had a tandem down to 24 lbs/ 11 kilos.
http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/
I think the Dursley-Pedersen tandem is a masterpiece. Has anyone seen one anywhere?
--Jack "read somewhere that there weren't any surviving Dursley tandems" Bissell tucson, Az
D-P home page:
http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 11:32 AM, themaaslands@comcast.net
wrote:
> Jan wrote:
>
>> What I was saying is that performance tandems as we know them today
>> made huge advances in the 1930s, due to the technical trials. For
>> example, tandems weighing less than 40 lbs. appear to be a 1930s
>> invention.
>
> What about early teens Dursley Pedersen tandems? I believe they too
> were under 40 lbs. Same goes for track tandems and triplets. If you
> dig deep enough, you will indeed find something that makes 30's
> tandems unique, but reality would suggest that the period in the 30's
> was simply a stage in the evolutionary development of the bikes that
> we now use. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> --
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
>> Lou,
>>
>> Good point... Of course, tandems were invented in the 1930s. Tandems
>> are almost as old as the bicycle itself - even hobby horses were
>> built as tandems!
>>
>> What I was saying is that performance tandems as we know them today
>> made huge advances in the 1930s, due to the technical trials. For
>> example, tandems weighing less than 40 lbs. appear to be a 1930s
>> invention.
>>
>> So while we were perfectly happy on a 1948 tandem for 765 miles, I
>> don't think a 1928 tandem would have been quite such a great choice.
>> Much less a 1908 one.
>> --
>> Jan Heine, Seattle
>> Editor/Publisher
>> Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
>> http://www.mindspring.com/
>>
>>> In a message dated 1/30/2004 10:48:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>> chriseye@comcast.net writes:
>>> I continue to be amazed by the machines that were built as
>>> early as the late 1930s.
>>> Had to have been a lot earlier than that, although quality is an
>>> elusive
>>> issue I suspect, but the popular song, "Bicycle Built for Two"
>>> certainly was about
>
>>> the turn of the 19th-20th century period. Lou Deeter, not as old as
>>> Chuck
>>> Schmidt who might have been there, but old enough to have learned
>>> the song in
>>> elementary school. Orlando FL