A giant bicycle created to celebrate the Tour of Britain has been vandalised overnight to create the outline of a giant penis on a hillside in Devon.

Locals in Ilfracombe woke up to the naughty alteration on Tuesday morning.

Made out of cardboard and reclaimed plastic, the original bike was commissioned by a local environment initiative.

Designed to draw attention to plastic pollution, luckily the organisers saw the positives to the prank.

Seth Conway, Project co-ordinator wrote on Twitter: "We build a cardboard bike on the hillside to promote #plasticfreenorthdevon and it gets a bit of attention. Someone turns it into a cock and it goes viral #worldgonemad but hey the vandal has sort of done us a favour!"