The first of it's Kind the Daimler Motorcycle

Although Mr. Gotlieb Daimler has laid claim to fame for the invention of the first gas powered motorcycle, he is really only responsible for merging a gas powered internal combustion engine with a wooden framed bicycle, thus became the invention of the Motorcycle in 1885. The 4 stroke engine used was actually mastermind by Mr. Nicolaus Otto hence the name he gave it "The Otto cycle engine" . Even though Otto had invented the engine in 1867 it wasn't until 1885 when Mr.Daimler who was an employee of The Otto Motor Company at the time merged the two inventions togeather to invent the 'Motorcycle. This was just the first of many variations of it's kind to follow. These fore fathers like Daimler and Roper went on to develop their ideas and test other projects in the automobile industry while other great inventors from this era continued to forge ahead. Such great men like William Harley, Arthur and Walter Davidson who band together to start the great

Harley-Davidson Motor Company back in 1903