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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] mbgid@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Bike is short for Bichael

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think they're referring to the lack of pedals.

A push bike is a type of bicycle. https://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/bikes/kids-bikes/push-bikes

[–] odium@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just realized there aren't pedals.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you grew grew a bush into a push bike and cut off all the flowers, it would be a bike with no pedals and no petals.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

and if it won a race it would be a bike with no pedals and no petals but with a metal medal

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Are you telling me the flintstones had a bike

[–] TheFlopster@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought bikes have pedals, we would call that a scooter

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Alright, alright, you win.

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

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Freiherr Carl von Swag

MFW dandy horse

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's not a motorbike, not a bicycle, but it can be a bike. It has 2 wheels.