Here's the design of the new Google bike for the company's Mountain View, California campus, which won out over about three dozen others.
Here's the bike the new GBike replaces.
Here's the second-place design, which discards the fenders and opts for a non-Google color.
The third place design is just an outline, but the drawing, if taken literally, implies a fairly modern take.
All these bikes will soon be replaced by the new design.
Ever wonder how Google employees get around their Mountain View, California campus? While it would be amazing, and very Google, to travel by tube, it turns out most Googlers get from building to building in the sprawling Googleplex via bicycle.
However, the current two-year-old “GBikes” on the campus haven’t been a hit with everyone. Some taller employees say their smaller 20-inch wheels make for an uncomfortable ride, CNET reports.
So Google did the logical thing: solicit its workforce for ideas for a better design for the GBike. While the new bike needed to serve its basic purpose of shuttling riders from place to place as well as be affordable, the company still wanted it to exemplify the culture of Google in its color and components.
The result is the bike shown above. The new GBike opts for a fairly straightforward design — the only way you’d know it was a Google bike is by the colors.
About three dozen designs were submitted, including a GBike based on a Penny-farthing bicycle. Ultimately, practicality and simplicity won out.
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