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    New Style of Google Bicycles

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    A Google product manager Gabor Cselle posted a picture of a tremendous number of Google bikes all lines up next to each other on his Google+ profile which like a sea of Google bikes.These may be the ugliest bikes out there but there are many of them.

    In fact, Google has refreshed the look and model ot its wo-year old campus bicycles few days ago — otherwise known as GBikes — demonstrating a new design that was sourced from staffers at its Mountain View headquarters.

    Last autumn, Google launched a competition calling for employees to help replace its aging bikes, pushing the idea that they had be easy to use and low maintenance, helping people to move between campus offices and buildings quickly and efficiently.

    Cnet reports that the design needed to be easy to produce, affordable and would have to be both comfortable and secure. Given that previous bikes had the distinctive Google colors, the new design should also include unique Google components, structure, and appearance. They received over thirty designs from teams of different sizes, with BMX-inspired and even Penny Farthing submissions made to the contest.

    The winner was a steel ‘beach cruiser’ with coaster brakes and hand brakes, says Cnet. The bicycle comes with a basket, bell, wheel and chain covers to minimize the water spray and greasing up. And, of course, it comes with a vivid yellow, green, read and blue paint finish:

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    The winners of the competition were a four man team including David Fork, a renewable energy technologist at the company. He says that the team wanted to build a “user-friendly, safe and reliable, low-maintenance new GBike.” This meant that he, and his team, worked to keep the design of the bike similar to the current model (pictured below right), but increasing the size of the overall unit so it’s easier for taller riders to use them.

    Fork and his team received a $500 gift certificate to a local bike shop for winning the competition.

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    The blue bikes are the first-generation of GBikes, likely providing the basis for the fusion of the two existing models into Google’s new design.

    The bikes will roll out later this month, with Google aiming to order around 1,000 to cater for all of its employees. Staff will be able to take them off campus, making them easy to spot as they make their way around the streets in surrounding areas.


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    #2
    Invented? It looks like they copied bike styles from the 1950s and 1960s.
    All they need is the old rubber bike horn or the old style lever bell.
    Apache

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      #3
      Yea I was expecting a little more.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Apache Warrior View Post
        Invented? It looks like they copied bike styles from the 1950s and 1960s.
        All they need is the old rubber bike horn or the old style lever bell.
        Apache
        They moved the kick stand!

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          #5
          umm spam?
          Hit 'em like comic books, kaboom! pow pow!

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            #6
            Originally posted by AmazingRedd View Post
            umm spam?
            +1. I think we just witnessed the Lair's first marketing intrusion.

            BTW, in a world that made any sense the boy's bike would be the one without the bar in front of the seat. OMG the painful memories.

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              #7
              Originally posted by JohnyRico View Post
              +1. I think we just witnessed the Lair's first marketing intrusion.

              BTW, in a world that made any sense the boy's bike would be the one without the bar in front of the seat. OMG the painful memories.
              Does that mean that we are now in the big league forum wise . Yeah it's spam with the ebook converter link @ the bottom.

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