The first motorcycle
Motorcycles are descendants of the safety bikes–bikes that has equal-sized front and back wheels and utilizes a pedal crank mechanism to spin the back wheel. The earliest known motorcycle was invented by one Gottlieb Daimler in 1885. It has one wheel in the front and another one at the rear. Funnily enough, just like a kid’s training bike, it has a couple of smaller, spring-loaded outrigger wheel on each side.
This motorcycle was made almost entirely out of wood. It was dubbed to be a "bone-crusher" chassis, and the wheels are of the wooden-spoked, iron-branded type.
This wooden motorcycle was powered by a unicylinder Otto-cycle engine. It may have had a spray-type carburetor since Daimler’s assistant, Wilhelm Maybach, was working on the invention of the spray carburetor during that time.
