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Constructor in a for loop

I’ve a beginner at java programming and I’ve been tasked at creating a database. The database is a bike store with a super class Bike and sub classes mountain bike, road bike. I also have a class called bikeSystem that manages all the subclasses. So far, i’ve taken the approach of setting up a a constructor in the bike system class, and encapsulating with getter and setter methods. Then tried to create a for loop that sets the size of the database based on the attribute variable for bikesystem “bikes” that specifies the size of the database based on whatever value i change it to. Along with an array list that will create an array of size based on the size of the database.

However, this approach has not worked and i keep receiving errors along the lines of:
BikeSystem.java:18: error: constructor BikeSystem in class BikeSystem cannot be applied to given types; BikeSystem noOfBikes = new BikeSystem();

As well as a bunch of errors relating to non-static and static contexts. Any help or insight into this problem, or possible solutions is really much appreciated, thank you for your time.

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class BikeSystem {
private int bikes;

public BikeSystem(int noOfBikes) {
    bikes = noOfBikes;
}
// Getter
public int getBikes() {
    return bikes;
}
//Setter
public void setBikes(int newBikes) {
    this.bikes = 9;

}   
public static void main(String[] args) {
    BikeSystem noOfBikes = new BikeSystem();
    for (int i = 0; i = noOfBikes; i++) {
        ArrayList<Bike> Bike = new ArrayList<Bike>();

    }

}

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Answer

I made a Bike class with a color propriety,a BykeSystem class where you can add lists of bikes,and the test class where you make the lists.I made it whithout a for loop.You can create then MountainBike class for example that extends Bike,add new propriety,like wheight,make a list of them in test class and add it to the BikeSystem list:

BikeSystem class :

    import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class BikeSystem {

//here you have to add attributes of bikeSystem
    private ArrayList<Bike> bikes;

    public BikeSystem(ArrayList<Bike> bikes) {
        this.bikes = bikes;
    }

    public ArrayList<Bike> getBikes() {
        return bikes;
    }

    public void setBikes(ArrayList<Bike> bikes) {
        this.bikes = bikes;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "BikeSystem [bikes=" + bikes + "]";
    }

}

Test class:

    import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList<Bike> Bikes = new ArrayList<Bike>();
        Bikes.add(new Bike("red"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("blue"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("black"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("white"));
        ArrayList<Bike> Bikes1 = new ArrayList<Bike>();
        Bikes.add(new Bike("red"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("blue"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("black"));
        Bikes.add(new Bike("white"));
        ArrayList<BikeSystem> BikeSys = new ArrayList<BikeSystem>();
        BikeSys.add(new BikeSystem(Bikes));
        BikeSys.add(new BikeSystem(Bikes1));


    }

}

Bike class:

public class Bike {
    //here you have to add attributes of bike
    private String color;

    public Bike(String color) {
        this.color = color;
    }

    public String getColor() {
        return color;
    }

    public void setColor(String color) {
        this.color = color;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Bike [color=" + color + "]";
    }


}

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