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Thu, 17 May 2007
[17:11] National Bike To Work Day and the Conference Bike
Today was National Bike to Work Day here in the US so, as usual, I biked to work. Not particularly stressful with my massive 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) commute but it seems that a LOT of people biked in from as far away as San Francisco! There were Energiser Stations set up all over the place, including here at Google to keep bikers energised and happy. More interesting though was this interesting bicycle, seen here hanging out at the Google Energiser Station:
It was revealed later in the day that this is one of two new "Conference Rooms", now available for mobile, healthy meetings...I love working here! There are more details on this delightful machine at http://www.conferencebike.com although the details of how it actually works are not readily available.
[Posted at: 17:11 17/05/2007]
UPDATE:
I finally got to take one of these for a spin! We had between five and seven people on-board for a lap of the campus and for the most part it was pretty easy. Uphill they're a bit tough with less than the full contingent (especially when the driver has the handbrake on) but on the flats it's all smooth-sailing and speed-humps present no real obstacle! It seems that the driver can operate it in single-user mode for re-location purposes and, consequently, their pedals are geared much higher than the other six seats which means that at speed, there's no real need for the driver to actually pedal.
[Updated at: 17:28 27/05/2007]
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