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Marshall, this one is for you my friend, taken at The Automotive Hall Of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan.
Bet you have never seen, the first gas engined motorcycle, built in1885, out of wood.
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Gottlieb Daimler - First Gas Engined Motorcycle
German, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first
gas-engined motorcycle in 1885, which was an engine attached to a wooden bike.
That marked the moment in history when the dual development of a viable
gas-powered engine and the modern bicycle collided.
Gottlieb Daimler used a new engine invented by engineer, Nicolaus Otto. Otto invented the first "Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine" in 1876. He called it the "Otto Cycle Engine" As soon as he completed his engine, Daimler (a former Otto employee) built it into a motorcycle.
Daimler's son Paul rode this motorcycle from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and back on November 10, 1885. Daimler used a hot tube ignition system to get his engine speed up to 1000 rpm.
Many of the nineteenth century inventors who worked on early motorcycles often moved on to other inventions. Daimler and Roper, for example, both went on to develop automobiles.
