The first one.......

Motorcycles are descended from the "safety" bicycle, bicycles with front and rear wheels of the same size, with a pedal crank mechanism to drive the rear wheel. Those bicycles, in turn were descended from high-wheel bicycles. The high-wheelers were descended from an early type of push-bike, without pedals, propelled by the rider's feet pushing against the ground. These appeared around 1800, used iron-banded wagon wheels, and were called "bone-crushers," both for their jarring ride, and their tendency to toss their riders.

Gottlieb Daimler (who later teamed up with Karl Benz to form the Daimler-Benz Corporation) is credited with building the first motorcycle in 1885, one wheel in the front and one in the back, although it had a smaller spring-loaded outrigger wheel on each side. It was constructed mostly of wood, with the wheels being of the iron-banded wooden-spoked wagon-type, definitely a "bone-crusher" chassis.

It was indeed powered by a single-cylinder Otto-cycle engine, and may have had a spray-type carburetor.

Information about engine…..

• 1. a single horizontal cylinder of 264cc(58×100mm, 2.28×3.94 in)
• 2. air cooling
• 3. large cast iron flywheel
• 4. hot tube ignition system (patent 28022)
• 5. cam operated exhaust valves, allowing high speed operation
• 6. 0.5hp (370W)
• 7. 600 rpm running speed, beating previous engines which typically ran at about 120 to 180 rpm
• 8. weight around 50 kg (110 pd)
• 9. height 76 cm (30 in)

Thus, his invention of motorcycle is the basis for today’s bikes……. The one and the only way of transportation for the middle class families are these bikes….. They surely and really will be thankful to Gottlieb Daimler. We should remember these type of inventors through opportunities like this(blog posts)…….