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submitted 5 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Image description:

Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile

Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:

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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

Bicycle: a vehicle with two wheels tandem, handlebars for steering, a saddle seat, and pedals by which it is propelled

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Just two wheels and pedal propulsion are all that is required, I can show you bicycles without handlebar steering or saddle-style seats that you would agree are still definitely bikes.

    Regardless, the thing above is certainly not a bike.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Bicycle can also be 3 wheeler, either 2 in front or back like adaptive bicycles

    or even 3 in line like this

    There's also 4wheel adaptive bicycles like this one

    Noteworthy also that only 2 from the above had a handlebar!

    Now I'm not defending loopholecyle, which is basically a light truck, but just pointing out that your definition is very wrong

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    The words are tricycle and quadcycle

    Bi means two

    A trike is not a bike

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Trikes and quads might share characteristics with bicycles, but they're not bicycles because they don't have two wheels.

    "a vehicle with two wheels tandem"

    "a two-wheeled vehicle that you sit on"

    "a vehicle with two wheels in tandem"

    "Bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by the rider"

    "bicycle, two-wheeled steerable machine that is pedaled by the rider’s feet"

    "a bicycle, a bike: a two-wheeled vehicle moved by pressing down on pedals with your feet"

    Sometimes you could argue that there's a grey area between a moped and a bicycle, or an e-bike and a bicycle. But, the two wheels is a key part of the definition. As soon as it's more (or less) than two permanently attached wheels, it's no longer a bicycle. That's why we have words like unicycle, tricycle, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The description of the vehicle is:

    "Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck"

    There's really nothing about that vehicle that's bicycle-like. First of all, it has more than 2 wheels, so it's not a bicycle. In addition, you don't move it by pedalling. You also sit inside it, not on it.

    It's really more of a cross between a golf cart and a delivery truck. It might legally get through loopholes meant for bicycles, but there's nothing about it that looks bicycle-like.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    To be clear, that was just a description I quickly made up for the post. I've been trying to make more of an effort to caption my image posts with text, in order to make them more disability-friendly and accessible.

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