The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to bicycles: Bicycle – pedal-driven, human-powered, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist or a bicyclist, and the activity is called cycling. Also known as a bike, push bike or cycle. Bicycles can be described as all of the following: a component of transport a component of a mode of transport a component of road transport a type of vehicle Human-powered transport List of bicycle types 29er hybrid bike Art bike Clown bicycle Dekochari Tall bike Autobike Balance bicycle Bamboo bicycle Beach cruiser Belt-driven bicycle Bicycle trailer Big wheel (tricycle) Billboard bicycle BMX bike Boda-boda Cardboard bicycle Cargo bike Chainless bicycle Chopper bicycle Raleigh Chopper Chukudu City bike Clown bicycle Conference Bike Cruiser bicycle Cycle rickshaw Cyclo-cross bicycle Dekochari Dicycle Electric bicycle Faired bicycle Fatbike Flat bar road bike Folding bicycle Birdy (bicycle) Gearbox bicycle Handcycle Hybrid bicycle Ice cycle Infantry bicycle Islamic bicycle Longtail bicycle Lowrider bicycle Military bicycle Swedish military bicycle Swiss army bicycle Monowheel Motorized bicycle Derny VéloSoleX Mountain bike Mountain bike with 26 inch wheel 27.5 Mountain bike (27.5 inch wheel) 29er (29 inch wheel) Downhill bike Party bike Path racer Penny-farthing Police bicycle Portable bicycle Porteur bicycle Prone bicycle Racing bicycle Railbike Randonneur Recumbent bicycle Whike Road bicycle Roadster bicycle Rowing cycle Scraper bike Shaft-driven bicycle Sideways bike Single-speed bicycle Fixed-gear bicycle Small wheel bicycle Stationary bicycle Swingbike Tall bike Tandem bicycle Sociable Time trial bicycle Touring bicycle Track bicycle Trailer bike Treadle bicycle Triathlon bicycle Utility bicycle Utility cycling Velocipede Dandy horse Velomobile Wheelie bike Wooden bicycle Workbike Xtracycle History of the bicycle bicycle craze Draisine, dandy horse, or Laufmaschine Boneshaker Velocipede Penny-farthing, high wheel, high wheeler, or ordinary Safety bicycle Karl von Drais Thomas Humber Pierre Lallement Thomas McCall John McCammon Eugène Meyer Pierre Michaux Mikael Pedersen Albert Augustus Pope John Kemp Starley Al Fritz Gary Fisher Charlie Kelly Joe Breeze Keith Bontrager Lenz, Frank Murphy, Charles Minthorn, also known as Mile-a-Minute Murphy Taylor, Marshall Walter, also known as Major Taylor Eddie Borysewicz Greg LeMond Joe Parkin Davis Phinney Bob Roll Connie Carpenter Lance Armstrong Brown, Sheldon (bicycle mechanic) Forester, John ("the father of Vehicular Cycling") Byrne, David (musician and artist) Herlihy, David V.