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Left to right: Mark Bridger and his partner, Pandora Dewan, Helen Cooper, and Philip Pullman contemplate the 6 metre tree of bicycles
This dynamo wheel came from an electric bicycle, originally charging the batteries on the bicycle when the brakes came on or when coasting downhill. It was fixed using extra bicycle bits and coupled to the reindeer bicycle via a pressure fit from the small child's cycle's back wheel. Although it was tested by a child in the workshop, it was not tested by an excited child stoked on adrenaline, and its unregulated output power proved to be too much for the bulb, and it was blown out immediately before the illumination ceremony |
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An all too rare sight in Oxford, supposedly the United Kingdom's most cycle-friendly city. I paid an engraver to make a much smaller sign, but he was clearly tickled by the idea and made a sign four times bigger than the one I paid for without me having to ask for it.
Generally, signs like this in Oxford warn cyclists not to park their cycles against private and college railings. There are three times as many cycles parked in the middle of Oxford as there are secure racks to put them in, a damning indictment of the transport department's policies towards cyclists.
The chaotic beauty of Cyclemas. The lamppost was an antique streetlight found at a salvage yard and spray-painted gold. Amongst the derelict cycles was a postman's bicycle and over a dozen individually donated children's bicycles (with their bells removed and returned by request)
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