Bicycle, also named Bike, is a key item introduced in Generation I.
Effect
A Bicycle is a method of transportation that allows the player to travel around faster than the Running Shoes as well as the Roller Skates in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. The Bicycle is required to overcome various types of obstacles, particularly ramps, muddy slopes, and thin wooden rails and logs. In Generation V only, the Bicycle is also used to overcome quicksand on Route 4. Additionally, within a few regions, the player is required to ride their Bicycle while traveling down a Cycling Road.
In the Generation IV games and the remakes Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, the Bicycle has two gears of different speed, normal and fast, which the player can switch between by pressing the B button. The bicycle can ride on wooden planks as well as scale muddy walls at fast speed.
Description
A different theme plays while the player rides their Bicycle. The Bicycle cannot be used while inside of buildings. Besides the player, Cyclists ride around on Bicycles as well.
The Bicycle does not appear in Generation VII, although Poké Rides serve a similar purpose.
In Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, there is a certain type of Bicycle, the Rotom Bike, which can be upgraded to also ride on water.
Flavor
| Games | Sprite | Buy | Sell | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pokémon Gold Version and Pokémon Silver Version | Key items |  | | A collapsible bike for fast movement. | |
| Pokémon Crystal Version | Key items | | | A collapsible bike for fast movement. | |
| Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version |  | Key items | | | A folding bicycle that allows faster movement than the RUNNING SHOES. |
| Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables much faster movement than the Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Platinum Version | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables much faster movement than the Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables much faster movement than the Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables much faster movement than the Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables much faster movement than the Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon X and Pokémon Y | | Key items | | | A folding Bicycle that enables a rider to get around much faster than a pair of Running Shoes will allow. |
| Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire | | Key items | | | A folding Bike that enables a rider to get around much faster than with Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon | | Key items | | | A folding Bike that enables a rider to get around much faster than with Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon | | Key items | | | A folding Bike that enables a rider to get around much faster than with Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield | | Key items | | | A folding bike that enables a rider to get around much faster than with Running Shoes. |
| Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl | | Key items | | | A folding bike that enables a rider to get around much faster than with Running Shoes. |
Locations
| Game(s) | Location(s) |
|---|---|
| Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version | From the Bike Shop in Cerulean City using the Bike Voucher |
| Pokémon Y | From the Bike Shop in Cerulean City using the Bike Voucher |
| Pokémon Gold Version and Pokémon Silver Version | From the owner of the Bike Shop in Goldenrod City |
| Pokémon Crystal Version | From the owner of the Bike Shop in Goldenrod City |
| Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version | Given by Rad Rickshaw at Rad Rickshaw's Cycle Shop after rescuing his Pokémon from the Galactic building in Eterna City. |
| Pokémon Platinum Version | Given by Rad Rickshaw at Rad Rickshaw's Cycle Shop after rescuing his Pokémon from the Galactic building in Eterna City. |
| Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version | Given by the Day-Care Man after defeating Team Plasma. |
| Pokémon X and Pokémon Y | Obtained from the Cyllage City Bicycle Shop after a question, with a choice between either green or yellow. |
| Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl | Given by Rad Rickshaw at Rad Rickshaw's Cycle Shop after rescuing his Pokémon from the Galactic building in Eterna City. A difference from the original versions and a similarity to Pokémon X and Y is that Rad Rickshaw allows the player to choose either red, blue, yellow, or green, similarly as in Pokémon X and Y. |
Appearances
Core series
In the Generation I games and Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version, the Bicycle is usually at a very expensive price of 1,000,000, exactly 1 more than the maximum number of Pokémon Dollars that the player can have, so the player is required to purchase it with the Bike Voucher.
The standard Bicycle does not appear in Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version and Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, which has two different types of Bicycles instead, the Mach Bike and Acro Bike, which specialize in speed and overcoming obstacles, respectively. The standard Bicycle exists as an unused item in Pokémon Emerald Version.
Anime
Pokémon the Series
Bicycles make relatively uncommon appearances in Pokémon the Series. Through the course of the series, there is a recurring gag in which a new female protagonist's Bicycle is accidentally destroyed by Ash's Pikachu. This has not occurred to Serena at all, since she does not own a Bicycle, but Bonnie and Iris have been affected by Thunder Shock from Ash's Pikachu directly.
Pokémon the Series: The Beginning
In "Pokémon - I Choose You!", Ash uses Misty's bicycle to try and escape from several wild Spearows, but while fighting the Spearows, Pikachu uses Thunder Shock and destroys Misty's bicycle by mistake. In the following episode, "Pokémon Emergency!", Misty is seen carrying her destroyed Bicycle. In "Gotta Catch Ya Later!", Misty's bicycle is repaired.
Bicycles are prominent in "The Bridge Bike Gang", since the characters are required to use them down Cycling Road.
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
In "Get the Show on the Road!", May's Bicycle is accidentally destroyed by Ash's Pikachu.
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
In "Two Degrees of Separation!", Ash's Pikachu destroys Dawn's Bicycle by accident. Several episodes later, in "Gotta Get a Gible!", Barry is shown to have his own Bicycle, which is also destroyed, this time by Ash's Gible, who had eaten the bicycle.
Pokémon Origins
At the start of "File 2: Cubone", Red traded in a Bike Voucher for his own Bicycle, which he has used to travel around ever since.
Manga
Pokémon Adventures
The Bicycle has been a recurring form of transportation for the Pokédex Holders, let alone various Pokémon Trainers in Pokémon Adventures, ever since the Red, Green & Blue Chapter.
During the Red, Green & Blue Chapter, a Bicycle first appears in "Bulbasaur, Come Home!", in which Oak uses one to chase a Pokémon that had escaped from his laboratory. Red has owned his own Bicycle since "Wake Up―You're Snorlax!", when he exchanged a coupon for one. Red uses the Bicycle in a cycling competition and then later across the Cycling Road.
During the Yellow Chapter, in "Victim of Venusaur", Red appears with his Bicycle on Cerise Island.
During the Gold & Silver Chapter, in "Smeargle Smudge", Gold obtains a Bicycle and uses it to race Whitney. Gold prefers using a skateboard to travel, although he is forced to use a Bicycle since the race he had entered is sponsored by Miracle Cycle. Gold dislikes how his Bicycle looks, so he quickly converts it into a scooter.
During the Diamond & Pearl Chapter, in "Ring Around the Roserade II", Rad Rickshaw gives Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum a Bicycle each out of thankfulness for being rescued from Team Galactic. In the following chapter, "A Big Stink Over Stunky", the three Pokédex Holders use their Bicycles to travel down the Cycling Road above Route 206, although Platinum crashes since she had never learned to ride a Bicycle.
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
In Pokémon Pocket Monsters, a Bicycle is one of the items available in a department store in the eighth chapter, and Red's Clefairy uses it at one point while attempting to escape from a Machamp. Later, during the sixteenth chapter, Red purchases a three-seat bicycle to ride across Cycling Road. In the twentieth chapter, a Bicycle is part of the prize for the winner of an athletics competition.
Trading Card Game
The Pokémon Trading Card Game features a Bicycle as an item card part of the Plasma Storm expansion.
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