This biker apparently was guiding the google cam on a bike path in Monterey, California. If you step back a few steps you can see this guy in front of the cam on the road all the way up to the beach. The cam was most likely on a bike too.
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iff you go all the way to the top and turn around, you can see the bike that the camera man was using, and the guy that was at the bottom of the beach