Bicycles have been and are employed for many uses:
Utility: transportation, bicycle commuting, and utility cycling
Work: mail delivery, paramedics, police, couriering, and general delivery.
Recreation: bicycle touring, mountain biking, BMX, physical fitness, and play.
Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, the Volta a Portugal, among others.
Military: scouting, troop movement, supply of provisions, and patrol. See bicycle infantry.
Entertainment and performance: Artistic cycling, Freestyle BMX.
Transporting milk churns in Kolkata, India
A cargo bicycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands
A toy, Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan Technical aspects[edit source | editbeta]
A trailer bike in New York City
The bicycle has undergone continual adaptation and improvement since its inception. These innovations have continued with the advent of modern materials and computer-aided design, allowing for a proliferation of specialized bicycle types.
Types[edit source | editbeta]
Main article: List of bicycle types
Firefighter bicycle
A freestyle BMX bike, an example of a bicycle designed for sport
Bicycles can be categorized in different ways: such as by function, by number of riders, by general construction, by gearing or by means of propulsion. The more common types include utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, hybrid bicycles, cruiser bicycles, and BMX Bikes. Less common are tandems, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear, folding models, amphibious bicycles and recumbents.
Unicycles, tricycles and quadracycles are not strictly bicycles, as they have respectively one, three and four wheels, but are often referred to informally as "bikes".
Utility: transportation, bicycle commuting, and utility cycling
Work: mail delivery, paramedics, police, couriering, and general delivery.
Recreation: bicycle touring, mountain biking, BMX, physical fitness, and play.
Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, the Volta a Portugal, among others.
Military: scouting, troop movement, supply of provisions, and patrol. See bicycle infantry.
Entertainment and performance: Artistic cycling, Freestyle BMX.
Transporting milk churns in Kolkata, India
A cargo bicycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands
A toy, Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan Technical aspects[edit source | editbeta]
A trailer bike in New York City
The bicycle has undergone continual adaptation and improvement since its inception. These innovations have continued with the advent of modern materials and computer-aided design, allowing for a proliferation of specialized bicycle types.
Types[edit source | editbeta]
Main article: List of bicycle types
Firefighter bicycle
A freestyle BMX bike, an example of a bicycle designed for sport
Bicycles can be categorized in different ways: such as by function, by number of riders, by general construction, by gearing or by means of propulsion. The more common types include utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, hybrid bicycles, cruiser bicycles, and BMX Bikes. Less common are tandems, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear, folding models, amphibious bicycles and recumbents.
Unicycles, tricycles and quadracycles are not strictly bicycles, as they have respectively one, three and four wheels, but are often referred to informally as "bikes".
