• @odium
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      25 days 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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        25 days ago

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

      • TheFlopster
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        525 days ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          325 days 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.

    • merde alors
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      825 days 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.

    • @Michal
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      125 days ago

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