Before there was Harley or Davidson....
From Smithsonian Online, November 2005This Month in History
November anniversaries—momentous or merely memorable
120 YEARS AGO: IT'S A GAS
Internal-combustion engine maker Gottlieb Daimler demonstrates a pedal-less, gas-powered bicycle—arguably the first modern motorcycle—in November 1885. Daimler's son Paul takes the first spin, six miles down a rural road in Cannstatt, Germany. It's no easy ride: the bike, fitted with a four-stroke, one-cylinder engine, has a chassis made mostly of wood and iron-banded wooden wheels. Daimler concentrates his subsequent efforts on automobiles, founding the Daimler Motor Factory with Wilhelm Maybach (designer of the Mercedes) in 1890. Gottlieb Daimler dies in 1900.
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