Bikes Against Bush requires no additional technical requirements. Everything needed for the project is incorporated with the bicycle. The project includes a laptop embedded in a bicycle side-bag, a bluetooth-enabled cell phone attached to the handlebars, a webcam and bluetooth-enabled GPS device attached to the bicycle frame, and a mechanical printing device attached to the rear of the bicycle consisting of a series of spray-chalk aerosol cans.

Users can send messages from the project website, bikesagainstbush.com, to the cell phone attached to the bicycle handlebars. Upon receiving the message, the cyclist can decide whether or not to print the message by relaying it via bluetooth to the embeeded laptop. When the laptop receives the message, it triggers an automated Perl script used to parse the message and send the appropriate data to the ChalkWriter for printing.

bikesagainstbush.com allows users to participate in the performance by sending a message to the bike, but it also allows web users to follow the event in real-time. The website will utilize a MovableType weblog, and through the MovableType Perl API, the bike will be able to create automatic blog entries each time a message is printed. The entries will include the text of the printed message, a webcam snapshot, a GPS map image, and a time-stamp of the moment of printing. The site will also contain additional information about the project and an archive of all the messages submitted (including those that are not printed). Below is a sketch of the website layout: