bike and history

The first motor bike was designed by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1885. In 1984, Hildebrand & Wolf Muller became the purchaser of first motorbike. Until the First World War, the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world was Indian, producing over than 20,000 motorbikes per year. By 1920, these honors went to Harley-Davidson, with their motorcycles being sold by dealers in 67 countries. In 1928, DKW took over as the largest manufacturer. After the Second World War, the BSA Group became the largest producer of motorbikes in the world, producing up to 75,000 bikes per year in the 1950s. The German company NSU Motorenwerke AG held the position of largest manufacturer from 1955 until the 1970s. From the year 1960 to 1990s, the small two-stroke motorbikes were very popular in the world. Today, the Japanese are manufacturing the Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha through the whole world market. The small capacity scooter is very popular in the world.







Motorcycle history begins in the second half of the 19th century. Motorcycles are descended from the safety bike a bicycle with front and rear wheels of the same size and a pedal crank mechanism to drive the rear wheel.Despite some early landmarks in its development, motorcycles lack a rigid pedigree that can be traced back to a single idea or machine. Instead, the idea seems to have occurred to numerous engineers and inventors around Europe at around the
same time.

The 1900 Werner Brothers patented motorcycle

  
In the 1860s pierre michaux ,a black smith in parish, founded 'Michaux et Cie' ("Michaux and company"), the first company to construct bicycles with pedals called a velocipede at the time, or "Michauline". The first steam powered motorcycle can be traced to 1867, when Pierre's son Ernest Michaux fitted a small steam engine to one of the 'velocipedes'.
The design went to the USA when Pierre Lallement,, Roxbury, Massachusettsa ,Michaux employee who also claimed to have developed the prototype in 1863, filed for the first bicycle patent with the U.S. patent office in 1866. In 1868 an American, Sylvester Howard Roper of  developed a twin cylinder machine from the French velocipede design, with a charcoal fired boiler between the wheels. (Roper's contribution to motorcycle development ended suddenly when he died demonstrating one of his machines in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 1st 1896).
Also in 1868, a French engineer
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux patented a similar steam powered single cylinder motorcycle with a petrol burner and twin belt drives, which was possibly invented independently of Roper's. Although the patent is dated 1868, nothing indicates the invention had been operable before 1871.
In 1881,Lucius Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona designed a much smaller steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of a 'farthing-penny' "Star" cycle at 12mph. In 1887 Copeland formed the Northrop Manufacturing Co. to priduce the first successful 'Moto-Cycle' (actually a three wheeler).

Lucius Copeland 1894