Google Bike

Step 7 Motivation

Aside from being a fun project, google bike was created as a christmas gift for my father. The past two years he and my brother (the star of the video) rode in the "Bike MS To Paradise and Back", a 100 mile bike ride to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The cold Pennsylvania winters don't have the best training weather for bike riding and my brothers and I wanted to get him a stationary bike stand so he could ride without braving the snow. He's also a big fan of google earth (who isn't!?) so I figured he would enjoy using indoor riding to explore new places.

A bit of research revealed a couple previous projects and I was encouraged to build a similar setup. One of the deciding factors was finding this wonderfully entertaining example of the google earth api that I was able to modify for use with the google bike. The bulk of the work was done the weekend before christmas and hopefully with the documentation here the project could be completed in a weekend or possibly a lazy saturday.

I attached various important files in this instructable that should allow you to create your own google bike. However, I also plan to maintain and update the following public repository:
https://github.com/braingram/googlebike

Good luck and happy riding!