Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Today in motorcycle history, March 6, 1900

  Gottlieb Daimler dies.

 

  Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device.  In 1885 they designed a precursor of the modern gasoline engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheel, wooden rigid frame ("Swingarms are for pussies!", Maybach would scream) which became known as the first internal combustion motorcycle (a version with a 10" over springer, drag bars, a king/queen seat and flame paint job was in the works for spring, 1889) and, in 1886, they attempted to fit their engine to a stagecoach, and then a boat.

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