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[strange knoll]

Please be patient

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[limber helm]

celui qui est plus grand => the one that is larger
ce qui est plus grand => what is larger

"celui" refers to a specific instance of an element among a set, distinguishable by a given characteristic. It usually translates to some form of "the one..."

"ce" refers to all that follows a given characteristic. When followed by a relative pronoun (que, qui, dont...) it usually translates to "what"

while slightly off topic, I'm also gonna add "je préfère le plus grand" (the larger one) as a natural fit for your sentence

[wintry spindle]

so i should use celui if I know the object that i'm talking about?

[limber helm]

yes

[wintry spindle]

is there anything particularly wrong about like using "ce" other than it not being specific enough?

[limber helm]

no, but it's not specific at all. doesn't even need to be a bicycle in your example

they really serve different functions
celui reduces the options to the only one that fit your criteria
ce is open to anything fitting that criteria
(I'm also gonna throw in ceux/celles which is the plural form of celui/celle if there's more than one thing)

[wintry spindle]

alright, that makes sense to me then