Motor cycles

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Oct 4, 1868

Sylvester H. Roper made a twin steamed engine witched ran off of coal but he later died showing his bike at a convention.

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Oct 4, 1871

1871 – French engineer Louis-Guillaume Perreaux developed steam one cylinder motorcycle with an alcohol burner.

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Oct 4, 1881

1881 – American inventor Lucius Copeland strapped small boiler engine on a rear wheel of “farthing-penny” bicycle. This configuration enabled him to reach the speed of 12mhp.

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Oct 4, 1885

the first Motorcycle was created by Gottlieb Daimler and he based it off of a safety bicycle ut it was later known a the "bone crusher" because it threw people off the bike.

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Oct 4, 1885

1885 – German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach produced first motorcycle with diesel-based engine in 1885. They managed to equip a wooden bicycle with a small 264cc engine. This device, which carried the name of “Daimler Reitwagen” (riding wagon) is today regarded as the first motorcycle. It kick-started huge way of future innovation and were precursor to all other forms of transport devices that uses gasoline internal combustion engine.

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Oct 4, 1894

1894 – “Hildebrand & Wolfmüller” was the first mass-produced motorcycle in the world. Sadly, only several hundred units were produced. After that year, many more motorcycle makers started building their designs around the world.

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Oct 4, 1895

1895 – First motorcycle came to USA via the French circus group. In the same year, American inventor E.J. Pennington demonstrated his first version of motorcycle that had top speed of 58mph.

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Oct 4, 1900

1900 – Werner Brothers submitted first motorcycle patent.

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Nov 21, 1901

1901-1903 – Several big manufacturing plants started their production of motorcycles, most notably English Royal Enfield, Triumph, American Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company. During that time begun the first organized motorcycle races, which in return increased demand for faster and powerful engines and designs.

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Oct 4, 1959

1959 – Japanese company Honda became the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world, surpassing German NSU.

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Oct 4, 1990

1990 – Japanese supreme dominance lasted all up to 1990s when several American and Italian companies begun expanding their markets.

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Oct 4, 2016

Present day – Today beside Japanese companies several other manufacturers hold sizable piece of the market. Most notably there are BMW, Ducati, Victory and Harley-Davidson.