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You could expand the information about U+1F6B2 BICYCLE that it is an emoji and belongs to the Transport and Map Symbols block. It might be superfluous in plain text in an article about transport and not computing, but you could create wikilinks to emoji or Transport and Map Symbols. 83.9.244.138 (talk) 14:21, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2024
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Sirpsa (talk) 18:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
In the section "Maintenance and repair," subsection "repair," change "in the comfort of home" to "from the comfort of home."
Change "in Italy in 2011 the number of bicycle sales (1.75 million) just passed the number of new car sales." to "in 2011, the number of bicycle sales in Italy (1.75 million) surpassed the number of new car sales."
Done The maintenance and repair section could stand to be rewritten from actual sources rather than the original research that's currently there, but for the time being I rewrote the "comfort of home" bit to be a little more encyclopedic and added a reference. Also updated the bike sales in Italy wording per your request, thanks. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 19:30, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 26 July 2025
In the "Legal Requirements" section, the missing citation in the 2nd paragraph referencing the Vienna Convention can be found at
https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_traffic_EN.pdf
on page 5 (Section 1, paragraph L)
"“Cycle” means any vehicle which has at least two wheels and is propelled solely by the muscular energy of the persons on that vehicle, in particular by means of pedals or hand-cranks"
and page 6 (Section 1, paragraph V)
"Driver” means any person who drives a motor vehicle or other vehicle (including a cycle)
Robhemmerich (talk) 00:50, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
History section: Draisienne or Laufmaschine ("running machine")
"Draisienne" is the French translation of the original German "Draisine". This requires editorial decision; confusion with the English word "draisine" needs to be adressed. "Running machine" is a woozy translation. I would like to submit "stride machine". 2A02:810B:E01:9900:8DFB:EBC1:E7A6:291B (talk) 18:46, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
Further Reading
please add:
Hadland, Tony and Hans-Erhard Lessing (2016): Bicycle Design. An Illustrated History. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262529709 2A02:810B:E01:9900:8DFB:EBC1:E7A6:291B (talk) 18:52, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
Removal of semi-protected status
I see no reason for this article to stay semi-protected. Its been years since any real disruptive activity. Clockiel (talk) 05:43, 3 February 2026 (UTC)