This has been debated/argued before, but I, and multiple dictionaries, say it's one word. I remember one dictionary dating the word "minibike" to 1960, IIRC. I'll see what I can find...
I'm a purist (minibike) but have to search for parts with both, damn eBay results always include more of those "mini exercise bikes" than results I want.
Minibike is one word because it defines a unique product c/o our childhood. More importantly, that's how I spell it on the MBR key tags that I make...me thinks we chatted this out before.
I know we have talked about this before. I think I read in the Lil Indian History that they actually have a patent on the phrase. I can't remember how they spelled it but you can search their history.
I'm a purist (minibike) but have to search for parts with both, damn eBay results always include more of those "mini exercise bikes" than results I want.
I recently noticed that Ebay no longer discriminates mini bike from minibike in search results. I almost always make it two words when i create listings
I know we have talked about this before. I think I read in the Lil Indian History that they actually have a patent on the phrase. I can't remember how they spelled it but you can search their history.
I recently noticed that Ebay no longer discriminates mini bike from minibike in search results. I almost always make it two words when i create listings
In this ad (and almost all other LI ads I've seen), they hyphenated it -- lol of course it's in the middle
Rupp also used the hyphenated version of minicycle
Bonanza also used minibike in several of their ads
If you search a manufacturer with either term there are different results if the listing only has one version. You're right though, most of the savvy sellers put both terms in their listing titles.
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