Bill The Biker

I met 'Bill the Biker' today - a Harley riding electrician who is helping me with the electrical components for the pedal powered bike. He's a great guy with no reservations or hang-ups about such a strange sounding project. Far from it, he even saw the potential merits in a future scenario where avid cyclists would help contribute to energy production in their own homes - a kind of reversal of the electric car which you normally plug into your home to fill with electricity overnight. Instead, he advocated a bike scheme which you would plug into your home at the end of a daily commute t help power lights for example.
He also asked me if I planned to plug the whole bike into the bridge, or whether I was going to take off the battery and then plug them into the lighting system. I said the latter. His critique was that the public wouldn't get such a clear sense that the bike had done the work. I agree, and it did give me the idea to house the bike inside the bridge at the end of each day, and to have it lit up inside and visible through the grate in the bridge which is at eye level. I told him this and he said he wanted some credit. Well here it is Bill - thanks for giving me the idea!