HISTORY OF MOTORBIKES
Motorcycle, any two-wheeled or, less commonly, three-wheeled motor vehicle, usually propelled by an internal-combustion engine . Ducati condor motor cycle, originally buit for service in the alps with the swiss Army. History Just as the automobile was the answer to the 19th-century dream of self-propelling the horse-drawn carriage , the invention of the motorcycle created the self-propelled bicycle . The first commercial design was a three-wheeler built by Edward Butler in Great Britain in 1884. It employed a horizontal single-cylinder gasoline engine mounted between two steerable front wheels and connected by a drive chain to the rear wheel. An early motorcycle, c. 1900. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. ggbain 071) By 1900 many manufacturers were converting bicycles—or pedal cycles, as they...