Car, Bus, Airplane, Truck excluding Bicycle

Question

There are a lot of vehicles: cars, buses, airplanes, trucks excluding bicycles.
There are a lot of vehicles: cars, buses, airplanes, trucks but bicycles.
There are a lot of vehicles: cars, buses, airplanes, trucks but not bicycles.

Is the sense of these sentences exactly the same?

Answer 1

I would write this your sentence as:

There are a lot of vehicles — cars, buses, airplanes, trucks — but no bicycles.

Changes from your phrase include:

1. I changed your colon (:) to a dash (—). Colons work best where you just have a simple list ("cars, buses, airplanes and trucks"), but is less elegant when your list is more complex.
2. I changed the nouns into their plural form, since I think you mean types of vehicles (cars, buses, and so on) and not one single example of each type (one car, one bus, and so on). If you did mean one of each, the sentence should be "There are a lot of vehicles: a car, a bus, an aeroplane, and a truck, but no bicycle".
3. I moved the point about the bicycles into its own clause, separating it from the rest of the sentence with separate dashes. I did this because it is something unexpected: since you are particularly pointing out the lack of bicycles, you need to give this importance in your sentence. In fact, you might want to go all the way and break it into two sentences: "There are a lot of vehicles: cars, buses, airplanes, and trucks. There are no bicycles here."

Answer 2

You could try this:

There are a lot of vehicles: cars, buses, airplanes, trucks -- no bicycles though.

Means you don't need the word 'but'

"But" is only exclusive when used with "not" i.e. "but not...." or like this:

All but J.Korns were present at the dinner.

Answer 3

I would call them motor vehicles, which cars, buses, airplanes and trucks all are. But not bicycles.