• @[email protected]
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      Bicycles are called bikes in the US and some other countries.

      I assume you come from one of the countries where motorcycles are called bikes?

      • @[email protected]
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        3 months ago

        Bike is short for bicycle. Motorcycles aren’t bikes. Obviously the short form of motorcycle is mike.

        • gid
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          203 months ago

          Bike is short for Bichael

      • TheFlopster
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        53 months ago

        While everything you said is correct, it still has no pedals. I thought we (USA) called these scooters.

        • @candybrie
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          193 months ago

          It’s a balance bike. I think of scooters as not having a seat.

          • @bran_buckler
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            33 months ago

            I completely agree. Unless of course you’re talking about a Vespa… 🫠

        • @Nyxon
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          33 months ago

          Like the other reply said, it is called a Balance Bike.

          To add some more context, it is not a scooter because you aren’t supposed to stand up on them but sit like a real bike but you move by pushing with your feet. They are training bikes for toddlers before they have the hand-eye coordination for peddling and you can either graduate to a kids bicycle with training wheels or some kids just go straight to the bicycle without the training wheels.

    • Vik
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      93 months ago

      This is a bike 🥄

      • @edgemaster72
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        93 months ago

        That’s not a bike, that’s a spoon.

        • Vik
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          183 months ago

          Alright, alright, you win.

          Heh, I see you’ve played bikey spoony before!

    • merde alors
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      indeed.

      The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine (“running machine” in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, is regarded as the forerunner of the bicycle.