The World's First Motorcycle 

Wow, thanks to the Internet I could see this. You guys rock to get this video done and published online !

A little bit of history- Gottleib Daimler never intended to make a motorcycle as we know it. He was an engine builder who found that when testing new motors the results on the bench were often different from those gotten through practical application. He created this 'vehicle' so that he would have a rolling testbed for his engines. The only reason there is a seat is so that he could make critical adjustments on the fly.

Wonderful inventions. I respect the inventors. They have both knowledge and patience.

In 1885 that would blow everyone's mind to oblivion

imagine seeing a motorcycle gang riding these

didnt know they had such good cameras in 1885

The first commercial design for a self-propelled bicycle was a three-wheel design called the Butler Petrol Cycle, conceived of and built by Edward Butler in England in 1884

Wow, did you catch that wheelie? Raw, unadulterated power!

In the decade from the late 1880s, dozens of designs and machines emerged, particularly in Germany and England, and soon spread to America.In 1894, Hildebrand & Wolfmüller in Germany ,became the first series production motorcycle, and the first to be called a motorcycle(German: Motorrad)

Wow. Compared this this my motorized bicycle seems like alien technology! And in today's times, my bike seems like this compared to modern motorcycles! Crazy how fast technology has evolved in the past 200 years.

I make that a 264cc engine... right? Though with that compression it's probably equivalent to about 50cc in the modern world... running at very low rpm. All up power is about that of an electric boost bicycle, hence the training wheels as there's no pedals for human power input! Very neat to see it running and actually usable as some kind of transport, even if it only does about 5mph. Plenty of space to add four more cylinders and get some much scarier (for 1885!) speed out of it...

i bet the piston was made of pine wood too!!

I could see an authentic one of these Daimler bikes in the Musée de l'Automobile (Cars Museum) in Mougins (French Riviera) about 4 miles north from Cannes and accessible from gas station parking on side of the motorway (direction Antibes > Cannes) ! In this video, it seems to be just a good replica because of the brand new frame and all the others parts ...... and it had no little wheels on both sides. DANY (France - French Riviera)

Wow! X3 They had to start somewhere, I suppose! That's 114 years older than my Harley. :)

looks like a kids bike with training wheels :)

Old is gold

Yes, it was a motorcycle a little bit, but it did have two training wheels attached disqualifying it as a true motorcycle. None the less, a very interesting video.

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The first steam powered motorcycle, the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede, can be traced to 1867, when Pierre's son Ernest Michaux fitted a small steam engine to one of the 'velocipedes'

the design created by Sylvester Roper in 1868 predates this design of a mid-1870s steam velocipede, and he is credited with creating the 1st motorcycle. see a replica in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pj3c64fqCiI.html this recreation somehow has omitted the pedals and crank as you can see from an image search for them and the frame is only approximately recreated. Resources are sketchy as automotive history is much more well documented than bicycle and motorcycle archives are. still a nice machine and should be appreciated as a piece of history

What a BEAST. Manufacturers these days don't make'em like they used to.

This is got to be the best ever motorbike in the world... Its good to see the progress that's been made thew the years ...

First ever use of Training Wheels!

The beginning of Outstanding thought's

Cool... 😎!...

DUDES!!! She was kind enough to post this... enjoy.

The first motorcycle was steam powered.

The Roper steam motorcycle was 1869

Very cool thanks for sharing

Damn squids. Where's your gear?

And Yamaha said they came up with the delta box frame design....

Dam Steam Punks Ring the church bell for the copper.

i like how all the people strolling along were going past it

That’s not the first Motorcycle, it’s the first Gasoline engined motorcycle. The first motorcycle was made by Roper in Roxbury, Massachusetts and it was a steam engine.

Also the world's first internal combustion vehicle of any kind, just edging out Otto Benz's own pioneering motorwagen, which probably should have been emphasised rather more. That both of them ended up making usable machines in the same year in neighbouring cities but not knowing of the other's existence until after the fact is one of history's odder coincidences. Can you imagine the feeling of the first ride on that thing, not knowing that it was the dawn of a new era, but still knowing that you were almost certainly the first person to have ever done such a thing? Odd, though, I rather thought it would idle much more slowly than that ... the first hand account of the engine's development (by Daimler's wife IIRC...) included a mention of spending a couple of nights once it was "perfected" enough to work at all just sitting watching it and listening to the heartbeat-like putt-putt noise it made. Probably like 200-300rpm at best. This sounds more like high hundreds or even knocking on the door of four figures... (of course, they might be gassing it up a little on purpose, and more especially so after it got moving... or possibly that was Benz and his wife instead. I have a feeling, after all, that Daimler initially preferred a 2-stroke system and so the information on the board seen at the start is somewhat incorrect. It would also account for the faster rhythm even though grandfather-clock engines didn't tend to spin very fast...)

Was there more than one produced?

For the want of a better word, WOW!

Four wheels does not equal motorcycle!

I know I could beat it with my Street Triple. The question is, could I beat it with my 21-speed?

More of a quad!

Before steampunk there was this... very cool.

You're right!

It might seem slow to us - in fact it IS slow to us - but imagine seeing of those in 1885. It must've been quite a sight.

can you do a wheelie?

I like this

oh nice ride,,,,

It's interesting that D.B. didn't utilize an existing bicycle and simply add a motor to it ( with modifications to it).

wonder how fast that motorcycle went can i out ran a cat

Lol, even has a saddle on it :-)

A vehicle with four wheels, even though assembled on a two-wheeled vehicle should not be considered a motorcycle. It seems, bat it isn't. The first motorcylce was made by Sylvester Howard Hoper in 1867 ..

where it all started

wow amazing

and we thought today's bikes are loud.

DOES IT EAT OATS OR HAY,,,LOL

VTEC with 2 stroke powerband

Look up the 1869 Roper

wow,perfect for world ride

yes of good

Which year??? 1885?

Just hope it does not throw a rod while you are riding it

Imagine riding this through Europe in ww1

Imagine doing wheelie on it

More than half a million views and 159 comments?

that was fast

its made in 1986? Didnt they have motorcycles before it?

Ducati: "Grandpa?"

Under no circumstances can this machine be considered the world's first motorcycle. It lacked several of the most fundamental characteristics that define what being a motorcycle is, such as having 2 wheels, the ability to lean, and its mode of steering. All this is overlooked by the existence of the Daimler's internal combustion engine. So wrong. The title of first proto-motorcycle must go to either the Michaux-Perreaux or the Roper, invented years earlier.

Get your steamer running Head out to the wild west Looking for adventure Or what stage coach comes my way. Yeah Darlin make it happen Claim your stake with a wild embrace Fire all of your guns as once and Stampede to the range I like coal and boilers Steaming pressure blowing Racin' with the plow horse and the steam burning me from under Yeah Darlin go an make it happen Claim your stake with a wild embrace Fire all of your guns at once and Stampede to the range. Like a true steampunk child You were born, born to be wild Pressure can climb so high Steam blows to the sky Born to be wild.

The first car:What Was The First Car? A Quick History of the Automobile for Young Peopleby William W. Bottorffcugnots.jpgSeveral Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels.A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since Thomas Newcomen didn't build his first steam engine until 1712 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. Newcomen's engine had a cylinder and a piston and was the first of this kind, and it used steam as a condensing agent to form a vacuum and with an overhead walking beam, pull on a rod to lift water. It was an enormous thing and was strictly stationary. The steam was not under pressure, just an open boiler piped to the cylinder. It used the same vacuum principle that Thomas Savery had patented to lift water directly with the vacuum, which would have limited his pump to less than 32 feet of lift. Newcomen's lift would have only been limited by the length of the rod and the strength of the valve at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to separate his invention from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's rights. In 1765 James Watt developed the first pressurized steam engine which proved to be much more efficient and compact that the Newcomen engine.The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. I believe that the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C. also has a large (half size ?) scale model. A second unit was built in 1770 which weighed 8000 pounds and had a top speed on 2 miles per hour and on the cobble stone streets of Paris this was probably as fast as anyone wanted to go it. The picture shows the first model on its first drive around Paris were it hit and knocked down a stone wall. It also had a tendency to tip over frontward unless it was counterweighted with a canon in the rear. the purpose of the vehicle was to haul canons around town.The early steam powered vehicles were so heavy that they were only practical on a perfectly flat surface as strong as iron. A road thus made out of iron rails became the norm for the next hundred and twenty five years. The vehicles got bigger and heavier and more powerful and as such they were eventually capable of pulling a train of many cars filled with freight and passengers.

that's the sport model

Historical yes but sadly you can walk faster

would it not be faster walking

top speed?

you beat me to it :(

do a stoppie

Hi

Training wheels?!

It's interesting...But some people might actually believe,somehow,that this was the first motorcycle.

Might aswell just walk lol

I ain't so sure about that. It looks like a hemorrhoid making machine.

Wlaking in bear foot is better! :D :')

steampunk style haha

hard to start up, and too fuckin slow for a motorcycle :D steampunk style :D

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Do a wheelie.

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beats walking

Um veiculo de 4 rodas, ainda que montado a partir de um veiculo de 2 rodas, não deve ser entendido como uma motocicleta.

The first Steam bike was faster...

Harley Davidson on steroids

Hyabusa

@julioauler1 proove ut ;D

only a replica... title is misleading

The first motorbike was made of wood Why

Wheelie it

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Slow down dude!

my chair, no engine, go faster