The first motorcycle was the 1885 Reitwagen made by German inventor Gottlieb Daimler, late of Mercedes-Benz fame. An un-named craftsman used detailed drawings and photographs of the original to craft ...

Karl Benz designed and built the Patent Motorwagen around 1885, which was when Gottlieb Daimler and William Maybach created the first gas-powered motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. Both had ...

Historically speaking, the motorcycle was invented exactly 138 years ago, if you consider Gottlieb Daimler's and Wilhelm Maybach's Reitwagen the first of the breed. Yet it wasn't until a few ...

Although it was a German engineer, Gottlieb Daimler, who created the first combustion engine pickup ... is the classic motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known ...

ON March 17 the centenary occurs of the birth of Gottlieb Daimler, the distinguished German engineer, to whom we owe the introduction of the light high-speed spirit engine suitable for road vehicles.

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