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Pedal Powered Smoothie Bikes with Lights

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Little

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.

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

4 Bike Lights and Energy Display

October 9, 2021 By Matthew Little

We were asked to create a four bike pedal power system for French company Mes Scenes Des Stars, who provide fun and interactive exhibits at events around France. This system needed to be an energy race, where lights fill up as the cyclists pedal, and also a pedal Christmas light system. It also had two pedal smoothie bike attachments which can be added on. It’s the Swiss Army knife of pedal power systems!

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Filed Under: Blog, Pedal Power, Uncategorized

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

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

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

Pedal power cinema

December 26, 2010 By admin

RE-Innovation joined forces with Magnificent Revolution to increase the pedal power capacity of Bristol. Check out Magnificent Revolution’s website for more details.

This included a two-day workshop for a number of bicycle related community groups to produce four pedal power generators, a one-day public pedal power workshop and a two and a half hour pedal powered screening of Metropolis at the Cube cinema. This was organised with the help of Sprockets and Dust.

Filed Under: Blog, Pedal Power Tagged With: bicycle, pedal, power, renewable

Pedal generator info and ideas

August 11, 2009 By admin

Notes and thoughts on pedal power, including motors and stand configurations.

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Filed Under: DIY, Pedal Power Tagged With: bicycle generator, human power, pedal generator, pedal power, Renewable Energy

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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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