Any one messes with that bike should lose a finger. That is a treasure that builds urban community.
37I'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."
17Yo, someone stole your pedals
11Kids 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).
7For real though, is it like a lil push bike or something?
5Yes, 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.
5Balance 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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That's not a bike?
4Bicycles are called bikes in the US and some other countries.
I assume you come from one of the countries where motorcycles are called bikes?
28I 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
11I thought bikes have pedals, we would call that a scooter
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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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MFW dandy horse
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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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That lock seems unbelievably easy to defeat. Lift the kick stand, remove the saddle, lift the back through.
In any city in the US that bike would be gone in 8 minutes, forget every day for a year.
Must be a really nice neighborhood.
2It goes through the frame, so probably not. If anything it's an overkill for a bike like that.
2Ahhhhh I see the detail I was missing now, thank you.
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And the only car in the back of the picture too
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