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

Cheltenham Science Festival – Spirax Sarco

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Little

Spirax Sarco produce energy efficient boilers and steam systems for industry. They run outreach activities for younger folk at the Cheltenham Science Festival, which is a large six day event. They have used our pedal power equipment for a couple of previous activities at this festival. This year they wanted to highlight the energy required to produce steam and link it to the various areas of industry that they work in.

“Race for Renewables”

Through discussion with their team, we developed some pedal powered light systems that changed colour from blue to red to indicate getting hot. Two additional displays showed steam ‘clouds’ which moved up to the top and each player raced their cloud to the top of their light display by pedalling. The event ran smoothly with several hundred participants over the six days.

Please drop us an email if you have a bespoke pedal power demonstration idea!

Filed Under: Blog, Events Tagged With: bicycle, bicycle power, energy, pedal generator, pedal power, Renewable Energy

Pedal Power Systems

June 4, 2017 By Matthew Little

Want to get up and running with your pedal powered activity fast?

Here are some full-packages we can provide.

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Filed Under: For Sale Tagged With: bicycle power, cycle power, for sale, human power, pedal power

Tour De Yorkshire Pedal Power

May 2, 2017 By Matthew Little

We worked with promotions company Creative Race to provide pedal powered activities for MugShots, one of the sponsors of the Tour De Yorkshire cycle race.

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Filed Under: Blog, Events Tagged With: bicycle power, challenge, energy, energy bike, pedal generator, pedal power, power

DIY ‘No-welding’ pedal-powered generator plans

January 16, 2011 By admin

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Here are full constructional plans for a do-it-yourself pedal generator, including the bicycle stand. This is designed so that there is no welding involved. I have built two of these stands and they have proven to be quite reliable and robust.
A pdf leaflet of these plans is available here.
An instructable of this is available here.
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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: bicycle power, DIY, 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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