Electric Pedals provides lighting, music, boiling water and other interactions powered by bicycle generators.
We run events in any location without a mains supply and without the drone of a generator constantly running; only the gentle whirr of bicycle wheels.
Pedal-power is a fresh new social activity that connects strangers together in an electrifying way; everyone working side by side to provide power for amazing events.
Our client list includes:
BBC TV, Big Chill, Greenman, Latitude, Cake Marketing, Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, Oxjam, Southwark, Lambeth, Hounslow and City of London, Tate Britain, The Great Outdoor Gym Company
Electric Pedals has been operating since May 2007.
As a part of Oxjam Kilburn we setup a very small 2 bicycle generator pedal power cinema in Oxfam on Kilburn High Street. We showed a number of short films from Straight8 (3 minute film on a single cartridge of super 8 cine film without editing or post-production) which was amazing. It was also a chance to test our new BenQ LED projector that performed great! Click the image opposite for a few mobile phone quality pictures from the event.
The show we worked on for the BBC Bang Goes The Theory, the ‘Human Power Station’ is featured in this months Focus magazine. The article asks ‘Could I generate enough pedal-power to run my own home?’. It’s a great question that took months of our time in research, design and testing to work out! Eventually, we figured that the average home would require about and average of 4KwH each day with peak power at around 12Kw i.e. if someone put the kettle on while someone else was in the shower! So we built 80 bicycle generators to handle the peak load! It was an amazing experience for us and we hope you enjoy it too. Anyway, look out for the show on the 6th December on BBC1.
Nunhead Arts Week Green Day is one of our favourite events of the year. It’s especially close to our hearts as it’s a community event in the heart of the community we live in. What also makes this event special is that everything, including the food is free and local community didn’t disappoint making this year the biggest to date. Every year we’ve built a pedal powered stage for this event and this year we really went for it! We had eight bicycle generators producing more than enough power for an amazing lineup of local artists including Lewis Floyd Henry and The Saudis. Massive thanks everyone who helped orgainise the event and special thanks to Dominic Rees-Roberts for filming and Lorna Allan for some wicked photos!
London Bankside was turned into the UK’s biggest canvas last Friday and Saturday (30 and 31 October) to celebrate the capital’s creativity at the Drawn to Bankside festival, organised by The Campaign for Drawing to help close The Learning Revolution Festival and the 10th Big Draw season. Electric Pedals in collaboration with Arts Express installed 3 super sized zoetrophs each powered by a Bicycle Generator.
2 LED projector gigs this weekend.
First, we’re setting up a human-powered video projector at Nabokov Arts Club on Saturday. Then we’re screening short films at the Oxjam Kilburn festival on Sunday from 3pm.
We’ve got a new gallery of pictures from the Nunhead Green Day. This free festival in Nuhead is in it’s 3rd year and this was the best yet. A big crowd enjoyed free sunshine, free food, free tea and cakes and the chance to power the live music by pedalling one of 10 bike generators. Lewis Floyd Henry stole the show with his Prokofiev meets ODB version of Shimmy Shimmy Ya. Also hot on the stage were The Saudis, Liz Bentley, The Nobodies and Charly Morris. Morganic provided amazing Monster Foot-Powered Airbrush portraits. There was also Orlando’s bees, the pedal-powered blacksmith and Arts Express printing workshops.
In August we did a test shoot with the BBC at Herne Hill Velodrome.
The test involved 30 cyclists powering various kitchen appliances including kettle, toaster, microwave and iron. Here are some pictures from the the preparations for the shoot.
We recently worked with DragonFly Productions on the making of an hour long special for the BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory. The Show, ‘The Human Power Station’ demonstrates using pedal power, just how much energy we consume in the average home. The current broadcast date for the show is 6th December 2009. Although there is every chance that this will change!
Electric Pedals joined the BBC Bang Goes The Theory road show at the Newcastle Mela last weekend. This was a free weekend festival with music, games, stalls and exhibitions, celebrating based around Punjabi, Pakistani, Bengali and Hindi and other South Asian cultures. We got kids and adults alike to make extreme tea and toast which was great fun!
This Saturday is the 3rd annual Nunhead Green Day, a free festival in Nunhead Green. We are running the Dynamo Cabaret pedal-powered stage with an amazing line-up of local music and comedy. Live music including Lewis Floyd Henry and the Saudis from 12-6pm.
We recently filmed a children’s TV show called Gastronuts, a TV series for CBBC and BBC1 that turns food and cooking into a wild, naughty, outrageous adventure. Each episode features some extraordinary culinary exploration and this episode without exception! Along with a local scout group we made pedal powered toast using our hacked super toaster! The show should be broadcast in December and will be available on iplayer.
