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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:
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
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.
The words are tricycle and quadcycle
Bi means two
A trike is not a bike
Yeah that’s the origin of the word
Just like one would think of the dice game when talking about ‘hazard’
Sometimes words change their meanings
I’m not usually a linguistic purist but we can’t let two mean three.
Behold! A child riding a quadcycle!
I would call the first image a tricycle (The shoulder-driven steering linkage on that thing is cool as hell btw), the second one is a concept that the builder does admittedly call a bike, and the third one a quadcycle with a pedal assist motor.