With the invention of steam engines and bicycles, 19th century scientists quickly realized that combining of these two technologies could substantially improve transport on public roads. First wave of motorized bicycles started appearing only few short years after the premiere of Pierre Michaux famous bicycle pedal bike and lasted to mid-1880s. Pierre Michaux’s son Ernest made the first motorcycle in his Paris factory by combining small steam engine to one of their early “boneshaker” bicycle designs. That product kick-started the production of many other models, with several other inventors performed similar feat using various types of steam engines (Sylvester H. Roper used coal burn furnace in 1868, Louis-Guillaume Perreaux used alcohol burner chamber in 1871, Lucius Copeland attached steam engine to English “farthing-penny” high wheel bicycle in 1881). True revolution in motorcycle technology happened in 1885, when two German inventors G...
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