Bristol Bike Portraits – Launch

The Cycle Festival Headquarters on College Green

Flower bike by Cap’n Bikebeard

One of Tim Floyd bike ghost sculptures

Jet and Jen arrive with with their instruments and amps by bike, of course.

Sylvie and Kevin setup the bike powered generator.

Ryan’s lovely bike library

My ‘bunted’ BSA shopper under Cap’n Bikebeard’s decorated cycle wheels and artwork from the Papergirl project.

Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope.

Photos by the Pinhole Pedallers

Jet fires up the Casio keyboard

Jet and Jen perform music composed during their year long cycle tour from Bristol to india.

Jen uses found objects – jars and coins – to make music

Another of Tim’s bike ghost sculptures

The bike library gets popular

More of my portraits on display in the projection room with bike powered music

Films of Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope were also shown

The Boneshaker tallbike looks small in context with the extra tallbike

And the evening wouldn’t be complete without some penny riding in the park

It was a great launch. Many thanks to everyone involved – especially Ruth, Sylvie, Kevin, Jet and Jen and all the other exhibitors and organisers!

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