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October 8, 2014 By admin

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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.

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Review of 2019

January 19, 2020 By Matthew Little

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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Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, Interactive Displays, Pedal Power Tagged With: bicycle generator, human power, pedal power

Pedal Generators

June 5, 2017 By Matthew Little

We can supply many different types of pedal generators, including portable systems.

We have three main types of generator:

  • Roller Wheel Generator
  • Hub Generator
  • Recumbent Generator

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Filed Under: Bespoke, For Sale, Pedal Power

Pedal Powered Scalextric

June 2, 2017 By Matthew Little

A pedal powered Scalextric is a great activity for your event. Our system is a 2-bike two lane figure-8 Scalextric track.

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Two Bike Energy Challenge

April 26, 2017 By Matthew Little

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.

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Filed Under: Bespoke, Events, For Hire, Interactive Displays, Pedal Power Tagged With: bicycle, energy, human power, pedal power, power

Pedal Power Energy Challenge

December 11, 2016 By Matthew Little

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.

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Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, Interactive Displays, Pedal Power

Pedal Power Fairy Lights

December 11, 2016 By Matthew Little

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.

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Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, For Hire, Interactive Displays, Pedal Power, Uncategorized Tagged With: christmas, fairy lights, pedal, xmas

Sport Relief 2016

March 22, 2016 By Matthew Little

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.

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Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, Events Tagged With: interactive, sport relief

8-Bike Pedal Powered Scalextric

December 4, 2015 By admin

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.

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I was really pleased with the end result, which was built within a 10 day timescale. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, Pedal Power Tagged With: pedal power, scalextric

Power Display Units

December 17, 2014 By admin

Here are the Power and Voltage displays we were asked to build for a 12-bike pedal powered cinema in Brussels.

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Filed Under: Bespoke, Blog, Interactive Displays

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About Us

Bespoke Gear have been building interactive pedal-power systems for over 15 years. Doing events and selling equipment to a wide variety of customers in that time we have learnt what works. We design and build high-quality, robust pedal-powered equipment and bespoke, interesting and interactive displays. If you are trying to promote environmental awareness, energy efficiency, getting people fit or just want something thats a bit different for your event then we might have something for you.

Renewable Energy Innovation

Our sister business, Renewable Energy Innovation, works on innovative electrical systems for renewable energy projects. It was through working on renewable enegry projects that Bespoke Gear was started. We needed interesting and interactive displays to explain power and energy to a wide range of people. Hence our first pedal power system was born.
If you require consultancy, design and implementation services for your renewable energy project, then please visit their website.

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