Names and faces to bikes

That makes no sense.

So if I see an F1 car parked at a car show it's not an F1 car? Or an airplane waiting to take off? Is that a groundplane?

It does make sense because the word "track" describes the place the bike is to be used, not just the style of bike.

If someone had a geared bike that they only rode on the track, they could legitimately call it their "track bike".

If you had a F1 style car that was driven mainly on the road, it would no longer be an F1 car. And to make it road worthy, you would have to remove its track worthyness making it even more distant from its F1 origins.

Is a track bike by design still a track bike when its ridden mainly as a road bike? And when it does not have the gear ratio to make it track worthy? I dont think so, but perhaps others do.