“We were offered life-changing money, but it would have killed the essence of what makes this special,” says Jack Carden, while pulling on his armour in the back of a van. “It’s so guerilla, it’s so street, it’s for the people.”

He’s one of the co-creators of Lime bike jousting, a London event where he and Camtholomew the First face off on top of their painted electric bike steeds.

After the first tournament went viral, Lime issued a proclamation that their bikes were “not for jousting.” But the people threatened to revolt if it didn’t make a comeback and yesterday their wish came true. On Halloween, over a thousand people pilgrimaged to London Fields to watch the rematch. The result was East London’s answer to a Renaissance faire.

Both Carden and Camtholomew were eager to retain the loose, ridiculous spirit of the first joust and commitment to craft like that meant they turned down multiple brand deals.

This time around the crowd had doubled in size and the style was even more chaotic. In the masses, doublets and steel-capped boots were as commonplace as Salomons and Superdry jackets. Men in baggy Carhartt jeans jostled next to dudes rocking tricorn hats and Regency-era pantaloons. People in regular Halloween costumes – like the Lorax and the Mona Lisa – added some extra seasoning.

The jousting project had clearly given people the medieval bug. Walk a few metres away from the main action and you’d find men engaged in casual sword fights, exhibiting the kind of camaraderie last seen at the Round Table. Women wearing corseted gowns and hennins (those tall pointy cone hats) on their heads gamboled around holding hands. Everywhere you went the omnipresent tang of a Lost Mary mingled with the scent of hot food and churned-up grass. It was like a cheaper, less homoerotic version of Troye Sivan’s ‘Party’ music video.