Bicycle Icon Generator

What the bicycle icon means

Cycling, a bike route, or an eco-friendly transport mode.

Travel icons are vehicle silhouettes, and vehicle silhouettes are the product of several distinct masses: a body, wheels, wings, a cab. At small sizes those masses merge and the vehicle becomes an unidentifiable lump. The ones that survive are the ones with a single dominant angular shape — a plane, for instance, reads well because the swept wing dominates, while a bicycle fails because it is two thin circles and a thin frame with almost no mass at all.

Where you will actually see it

• transport mode selectors in maps
• bike-share and rental apps
• app icons for cycling and fitness products

Drawing the bicycle at 16 pixels

Two large thin circles joined by a thin frame — one of the worst small-size icons available. It needs 32px.

Stroke weight is the control that matters most here. Lucide icons are drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2px stroke, which means that when the icon is scaled down to 16px the stroke is effectively 1.33px — below one device pixel on a standard-density display. Raising the stroke to 2.5 or 3 before exporting keeps the shape solid; lowering it to 1.5 suits large app icons where a heavy stroke looks clumsy. The editor exposes this as a slider, so you can find the value that survives your smallest target size rather than guessing.

Using it in code

If you want the icon in a Vue project rather than as a downloaded asset, it is a named export of the lucide package:

import { Bike } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Bike :size="24" :stroke-width="2" />

The download button above gives you something different: the icon composed onto a background with a corner radius, exported as a flat SVG path set. The exporter converts the icon out of its <foreignObject> wrapper first, because a foreign object taints an HTML canvas and would otherwise break PNG and ICO rasterisation.

Related icons

Other icons in the travel group.