Nils Norman explains here what he wanted to achieve with his "Gerard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station Prototype (NYC Chapter)" in 1999.

a prototype of a bicycle with a small solar powered Xerox machine on it and a library of books. The books are a very special library on urbanism, architecture, city design, experimental gardening, alternative energy and also alternative city design. You could travel around, stop at any place and people can Xerox parts of the books if they wanted to. On the bike is also a weather station so that you can measure the humidity, the windrate etc. when you stop at gardens.