I saw a couple of guys riding a pair of stolen Google bicycles in Scotts Valley earlier this week.
I told them I wouldn’t nark on them if they let me take their photos.
They claimed to have no idea these are Google bikes. “They look like clown bikes,” said Dude #1. “We saw them on Craigslist and paid fifty bucks to some guy in Walnut Creek.”
Walnut Creek (in the East Bay) is a long ways for those bikes to travel from the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.
In other news, Santa Cruz police arrested a suspected bike thief after witnesses reported him trying to steal a bike at 1 AM. Police found the suspected thief in possession of a bolt cutter and a bicycle that didn’t belong to him.
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Doesn’t surprise me. Once I was out and about in the South Bay and I saw some folks with the Google bike. Didn’t want to confront them like you. Google is so lax with securing their bikes. I went to a WebMap social event at Google and noticed how they didn’t even lock those bad boys up.
sucks. i drove by the googleplex the other day w/ a couple of friends and we weren’t planning on riding but the bikes were there and it was awesome. one friend hadn’t been on a bike in 20 years, was convinced she couldn’t ride, etc., but i suggested she hop on a bike — she chose an Intuit bike, actually — and away she went. we cruised around for a bit and dropped them of where we got them. was awesome. tourists were taking pictures and laughing and all sorts of coolness.