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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

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.

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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

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

Energy Efficiency at DHL Daventry

June 8, 2017 By Matthew Little

We helped the staff at DHL Daventry get a feel for the power and energy that different equipment uses. We set up two systems: One showed energy on our 2m high LED bar graph displays, the other directly powered different loads.

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Filed Under: Blog, Events Tagged With: energy efficiency, office, pedal power

For Hire

June 5, 2017 By admin

We have a wide range of pedal power equipment available to hire for your event. This includes energy bikes, pedal powered cinemas, pedal powered Scalextric systems, sound-systems and bubble machines.

Please contact us to discuss further.

Filed Under: Activities, For Hire Tagged With: energy, pedal power

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

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

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 at St. Anns Community Orchard

August 9, 2015 By admin

Bespoke Gear have been running pedal powered activites at St Anns Community Orchard in Nottingham for the past three years. They have child-friendly open days with loads of activities running. It was a sunny day during the school holidays so they were very busy.

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For the younger folk we ran our pedal water fountain, which is simple, but always a winner.

We also ran our environmentally-themed water cannons. We had a queue for these for the whole day….

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Its great to be involved with local community events such as this. Look forward to next year!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Community, Fountain, pedal power, Water Cannons

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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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