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."

[–] Michal@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yo, someone stole your pedals

[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 7 points 2 weeks 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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can confirm, works great.

[–] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That's not a bike?

[–] odium@programming.dev 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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 2 weeks ago

Bike is short for Bichael

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 11 points 2 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just realized there aren't pedals.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago

Are you telling me the flintstones had a bike

[–] TheFlopster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a bike 🥄

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Alright, alright, you win.

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

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Freiherr Carl von Swag

MFW dandy horse

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And the only car in the back of the picture too