Apple Park, Apple’s new $5 billion campus, is huge » . The “ring” building is situated on 175 acres, so it can take a lucky Apple employee as many as 10 minutes » to walk from the parking garage to their office.

So Apple will provide 1,000 free bikes and 2,000 bike parking spots on its campus for employees to get from place to place.

Most Silicon Valley tech giants provide free bicycles for their employees, but given Apple’s corporate preferences, its bikes are minimally designed, compared to Google’s rainbow-colored two-wheelers. It seems Apple settled on a completely chrome, minimalist bicycle design, and ordered a whole lot.

Wired has been aggressively covering » Apple’s bikes for years. In 2011, it published a photo of a silver Apple bike used at the company’s old headquarters, One Infinite Loop. Back then, the bikes had exactly zero logos on them — even the tires were brand name-free.

The bikes are made by Public Bikes » , a Northern California bike company which has also sold bikes to Facebook, Mozilla, and Square. However, Public does not list Apple under brands it’s worked with on its website. »

The bikes are custom-built and painted “Apple Gray,” according to The Wall Street Journal » . That’s a sharp contrast to Google’s more famous bikes, which are painted rainbow colors, like the search engine’s logo.

However, Apple is unlikely to emulate some parts of Google’s bike program, such as the fact that hundreds of its bikes go missing » from its Mountain View campus every week, and that people who live around the campus feel entitled to use them — even if they don’t work for Google.
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