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Magnificent Revolution pedal-powered cinema event, London (archive)
Photo: Magnificent Revolution (archive) (timeout.com)

Magnificent Revolution

United Kingdom, London · Nonprofit association

Defunct last verified 2026-09 No activity is documented after October 2012 (Thames Festival); see website_note on the former domain.
Topology not documented
8- and 20-bike rigsDocumented
  • Defunct — domain not linked
  • Promotional figures labelled

No website linked — The organisation's former domain, magnificentrevolution.org, no longer belongs to it: as of 9 September 2026 it resolves to an unrelated gambling link-farm page. It is deliberately not linked anywhere on this site. See editorial_flags and the Corrections note below.

Magnificent Revolution was a London nonprofit collective that ran "Cycle-In Cinema" from 2007 to 2012. Its generator design lives on in the free no-welding plans that Bespoke Gear still publishes.

Key facts

  • Founded

    2007, Big Chill Festival ('Cycle-In Cinema')1

    Documented

  • Fleet

    8- and 20-bike rigs2

    Documented

  • Last documented activity

    Thames Festival, October 20121

    Documented

  • Current domain status

    Resolves to unrelated gambling content (observed 2026-09-09)3

    Documented

  • Legacy

    DIY plans survive at Bespoke Gear / Renewable Energy Innovation4,5

    Documented

The collective built "Cycle-In Cinema" for the 2007 Big Chill Festival and ran do-it-yourself workshops teaching attendees to build their own bike generators, publishing construction instructions on its website 1. No dated activity survives after the Thames Festival in October 2012 1, and the September 2026 search found no successor organisation under the name. The former web address has since been taken over by an unrelated gambling page and is deliberately not linked from this site 3. Matthew Little of Bespoke Gear, whose site publishes the plans 4,5, went on to build an 8-bike cinema for a Magnificent Revolution offshoot in Sydney in 2012 and a 12-bike rig for a Brussels collective in 2014 6.

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
Founding year2007 Big Chill FestivalDocumented1
Small rig size8 bikesDocumented2
Large rig size20 bikesDocumented2
Power output at full large rig~2 kW with 20 riders (operator claim)Research correction:Implies roughly 100 W per rider. The research's measured and operator-documented consensus for sustained event-pace output is 40–75 W per rider, and it treats promotional '100 W average' claims as a credibility red flag. Read the 2 kW as a peak-capability claim, not a sustained figure.Stated on the Renewable Energy Innovation docs page as 'around 2kW with 20 riders'; never independently measured.Promotional / press-reported — not verified2
Generator type (open-plan design)24 V permanent-magnet DC motor (MY1016-type, scooter-motor origin)Documented via the no-welding plans later published by Bespoke Gear / Renewable Energy Innovation, based on the Magnificent Revolution design.Documented5
Last documented activity dateOctober 2012 Thames Festival, LondonDocumented1
Current state of former domainResolves to an unrelated gambling/link-farm pageObserved 9 September 2026; the address itself is not reproduced as a link anywhere on this site.Documented3
Line diagram of the collective's eight-bike and twenty-bike cinema rigs with the operator's two-kilowatt figure labelled as a claim
8- and 20-bike rigs, about 2 kW with twenty riders (operator claim)1,3,6,2 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Diagram of where Magnificent Revolution's lineage and plans survive after the collective ended
Sydney offshoot 2012; Brussels rig 2014; plans preserved at Bespoke Gear and re-innovation1,3,6,2 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus

Seeded:Bespoke Gear / Renewable Energy Innovation

Sources

  1. [1]Time Out London — Magnificent Revolution's Cycle-In Cinemawww.timeout.com
  2. [2]Re-Innovation docswww.re-innovation.co.uk
  3. [3]magnificentrevolution.org observed state 2026-09-09Not linked.Domain hijacked — serves gambling spam as of 2026-09-09; title retained for the record, no hyperlink rendered.
  4. [4]Bespoke Gear — Roller Wheel Pedal Generatorsbespokegear.co.uk
  5. [5]Bespoke Gear — DIY 'No-welding' pedal-powered generator plansbespokegear.co.uk
  6. [6]Bespoke Gear — tag: magnificent revolutionbespokegear.co.uk

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