• The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I’ve known a few small business owners who have done stuff like this after adults complained there was nowhere to lock up their adult bike because a kid bike was occupying the space. Basically the small business owners’ responses were “you’re in shape. There’s a large rack around the corner. Your bike is important to you, but that kids bike is their entire world right now. You can shut the hell up and walk”

    And then put up signs like this or that just say “kid bike lock up only.”

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      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).

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

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        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

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      10 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?

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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.

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

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      10 months ago

      It goes through the frame, so probably not. If anything it’s an overkill for a bike like that.