We design and build interesting pedal-powered and human-powered installations and equipment as commissions for numerous clients.
We work with you to design a bespoke system and can help turn your ideas into reality. Please contact us for more information.
We recently built two smoothie bike systems with large light-up advertising signs. These use our electrical pedal generators to charge some capacitors. This electrical energy is then used to power some standard electric smoothie machines. There is a large LED sign which lights up as you ‘fill’ the unit with energy and the, when the energy is used up, the lights switch off.
[Read more…]While I have not been putting many posts on the website recently, I have been very busy with pedal powered projects! In 2019 I worked on 12 large pedal powered projects (not including the hire of pedal powered equipment for events). This included supplying 31 pedal generator units and 7 pedal powered Scalextric systems. I’ve been trying to standardise a lot of kit I supply, but every project is different! I thought I would review some of these projects.
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We can supply many different types of pedal generators, including portable systems.
We have three main types of generator:
A pedal powered Scalextric is a great activity for your event. Our system is a 2-bike two lane figure-8 Scalextric track.
Here is our two-bike pedal power challenge. This comprises of two large LED bar graphs to show either power or energy.
The challenge can be either a timed challenge, where the winner is the person who generates the most energy or the maximum power, or it can be a race to generate a certain amount of energy.
This can be linked in to energy efficiency advice and gives the users an interactive way of feeling how much energy different devices use.
We were asked to provide a pedal power challenge for a sports promotion company.
We provided a two bike energy challenge with two large LED bar graphs. The energy from the cyclist is measured and displayed on the bar graph. The challenge is for 30 seconds and there is a large LED timer which counts down. The person who has generated the most energy in that time is the winner.
Here are some photos of our pedal powered fairy lights. This unit can take one or two pedal generators and powers strings of LED lights, 5m or more. The unit stores the energy from the cyclist in an ultra-capacitor and, when the capacitor is full, it runs the LED lights with a randomly chosen effect.
Bespoke Gear were commissioned to supply some pedal generators and produce some interactive displays for an exhibit at Sport Relief 2016.
We provided 4 pedal generators – two for adults bikes and two for children’s bikes – and two LED displays for an interactive display highlighting activities funded by Sport Relief.
A large monitor display showed a new fact whenever people had cycled to generate enough power.
The day was well attended and great fun – the pedal generators were in constant use throughout the day.
Every so often a project comes along that would have been the envy of my childhood self. This was one of those projects – I was asked to build a 8 lane pedal powered Scalextric. This meant putting together Scalextric track designs and testing Scalextric cars.
I was really pleased with the end result, which was built within a 10 day timescale. [Read more…]
Here are the Power and Voltage displays we were asked to build for a 12-bike pedal powered cinema in Brussels.
