History of Motorcycles

The world's first motorcycle was born in Germany. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybachdari Germany, which created the first motorcycle in the world. In 1885, Daimler-sized pair of small four-stroke engine on a wooden bicycle. Machine is placed in the middle (between the front and rear wheels) and connected by chain to the rear wheels.

Wooden motorized bicycle was named Reitwagen (riding car) and is the world's first motorcycle. Maybach try Reitwagen as far as three miles along the River Neckar, from Cannstatt to Untertürkheim, with a speed of 12 kilometers per hour. Reitwagen not sold to the public and installation of machinery on the wooden bike is a series of experiments Daimler and Maybach, a four-step prior to installing the engine in the carriage, which became the forerunner to the birth of the car.

In 1893 the first motorcycle sold to the public was made by the motorcycle manufacturer Hildebrand und Wolfmüller in Munich, Germany. The bike does not use chains. Rear wheels are driven directly by the crankshaft (crankshaft).

1895, first motorcycle into the United States, when a French circus performer brought him to New York. That same year, a U.S. inventor, EJ Pennington, in Milwaukee, a motorcycle designed to demonstrate itself and can be driven up to 93 kilometers per hour, and the first to introduce the term motorcycle (motorbike).

1895 Triumph, British bike maker decided to make motorcycles., Triumph motorcycles bought Hildebrand und Wolfmüller and learn how to make it. Four years later, 1902, the company manufactured the first motorcycle, using Belgian-made Minerva engine.

1903, William S Harley and his friend, Arthur Davidson, producing motorcycles in Milwaukee, United States, and call it a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

1906 BSA, which stands for Birmingham Small Arms, manufactures motorcycle engines using Minerva, before making machines with a capacity of 350 cc, 500 cc and 595 cc of their own.

1921, BMW motorcycle engine configuration menhadirkan 2 cylinder horizontally opposed (boxer) who is placed in a single engine house made ​​of aluminum. BMW rear-wheel drive with Koppel (shaft drive).