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Audience pedalling stationary bikes to power a plaza screening at dusk
Photo: BikeCine (TMC) (bikecine.com.br) — via bikecine.com.br

BikeCine / Cine Pedal Brasil

Brazil, São Paulo · Commercial hire

Active last verified 2026-09 BikeCine (São Paulo) is active; the 2016 'Cine Pedal Brasil' national tour was a separate, earlier project, now historical.
Topology not documented
12 fixed bikes + 4 bases (16 stations)Documented
  • Promotional figures labelled

Websitehttps://bikecine.com.br

BikeCine runs an itinerant pedal cinema from São Paulo on twelve fixed bikes and four bases, with an inflatable screen and a hand-crank for accessibility. Its most recent documented event, at the Centro Cultural São Paulo on 14 November 2025, seated about 200.

Key facts

  • Fleet

    12 fixed bikes + 4 bases (16 stations)1

    Documented

  • Historical tour

    Cine Pedal Brasil, 2016 (10 bikes + 10 bases)2

    Documented

  • Press-reported wattage

    ~200 W per rider, ~2,500 W total3

    Promotional / press-reported — not verified

  • Technology link

    Linked to Uruguay's Efecto Cine (photo credit '@efectocine')1

    Documented

“16 estações de energia, equipadas com 12 bicicletas fixas e quatro bases.”

16 energy stations, equipped with 12 fixed bikes and four bases.

diariozonanorte.com.br, 14 November 20251

BikeCine's 2025 coverage names Marco Costa as coordinator and credits its photographs to "@efectocine", linking the operator to Uruguay's Efecto Cine. Brazilian press reports about 200 W per cyclist and about 2,500 W for the whole rig.

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
Fleet (current, São Paulo 2025)12 fixed bikes + 4 bases 16 stations totalDocumented1
Seating capacityabout 200 seats (São Paulo, Nov 2025)Documented1
Historical fleet (Cine Pedal Brasil, 2016)10 fixed bikes + 10 basesDocumented2
Historical system power (2016 tour)1,300 W (organizer-stated)Operator-stated2
Press-reported power per riderabout 200 W per cyclistResearch correction:Contradicts the measured 40–75 W event-pace consensus documented across the field (the KLAK manual, CycleCinemaClub press coverage, Low-tech Magazine); best read as an unverified mechanical-at-the-pedals or short-burst figure, if it has any measurement basis at all.Promotional / press-reported — not verified3
Press-reported total system drawabout 2,500 W (for 12–16 stations)Research correction:No metered total is published; the figure is roughly quadruple what the field's documented per-rider constant would predict for this fleet size.Promotional / press-reported — not verified3

History

An earlier, separate national tour, Cine Pedal Brasil, ran in 2016, produced by Inffinito and directed by Adriana L. Dutra; it visited Rio, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Goiânia, Salvador, Recife and Natal on ten fixed bikes and ten bases where participants docked their own bicycles, with a hand-pedal for wheelchair users, children and the elderly 2. No lineage between that tour and BikeCine is documented.

Comparison card placing the press-reported two-hundred-watt figure beside the measured forty-to-seventy-five-watt consensus, labelled promotional
Press-reported ~200 W per cyclist labelled promotional; research consensus 40–75 W per rider2,1,3 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
BikeCine pedal-powered open-air cinema event
Photo: BikeCine (TMC) (bikecine.com.br) — via bikecine.com.br

People and community

In 2017 Electric Pedals' founder Colin Tonks stated that "we now have three of our big bicycle cinemas touring through South America with our partner Efecto Cine", naming Chile, Brazil and Uruguay; BikeCine's own coverage does not confirm shared hardware 4.

Timeline strip of the 2016 national tour and the November 2025 São Paulo event
Cine Pedal Brasil national tour 2016; BikeCine São Paulo CCSP 14 November 20252,1,3 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus

Sources

  1. [1]BikeCine São Paulo — diariozonanorte.com.br, 14/11/2025www.diariozonanorte.com.br
  2. [2]Cine Pedal Brasil coverage (ativo.com et al., 2016)www.ativo.com
  3. [3]TMC — Bike Cine: telespectador gera energia limpa (BR press)tmc.com.br
  4. [4]adaptnetwork.com — Cinema goers can now power their own screening (interview with Colin Tonks, 2017)www.adaptnetwork.com

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