• verity_kindle
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    373 months ago

    Any one messes with that bike should lose a finger. That is a treasure that builds urban community.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Kids of that age would more-or-less walk while sitting on these. The pedaling comes after balance training (unlike how my generation used tricycles at the same age).

    • @frigidaphelion
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      53 months ago

      For real though, is it like a lil push bike or something?

      • @3ntranced
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        63 months ago

        Think of it like an open wheel version of the cozy coupe

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          It’s a real shame people can’t learn to drive properly with them, like riding a bike properly on a push bike.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Yes, it’s called a balance bike and they’re pretty cool. They prepare children for “real” bikes and also help them walk more without getting tired.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Balance bikes are amazing. My kid rode hers daily to day care and back (half a mile or more). At 3 got a pedal bike with no training wheels. Made some progress day one, next day was literally riding. Has been riding ever since. Never had training wheels.

        Balance bikes work on the premise that the hardest part of learning to ride isn’t the pedals. It’s learning how to balance

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      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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        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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      83 months ago

      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.

  • @wafflez
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    13 months ago

    And the only car in the back of the picture too