Has been designed as inspiration for the bike, dirt, and arguably the first motorcycle, built by German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt (since 1905 the city of Stuttgart) in 1885. The first petroleum-powered car, it was mainly motorized bicycle, although called inventors and their inventions Reitwagen ("ride transport"). Did not specify which aircraft to create a model of the car, but to build a simple transport of the engine, which was the focus of their endeavors. Steam power. However, if one counts two wheels with the payment of steam as a motorcycle, then you may be the first one the U.S.. This was demonstrated in one device and exhibitions, circus in the eastern United States in 1867, built by Sylvester Howard Roper from Roxbury, Massachusetts.
An example of Roper machine dating from 1869, but there is no patent existing and nothing proves that he was working model. It was powered by coal-fired two rockets cylinder engine, which connecting rods directly drive crank to the rear wheels. Roper machine dating back to before the invention of bicycle safety for many years, so based on the structure of the bike "boneshaker". In 1868, patented the French engineer Louis Guillaume Perreaux a similar vehicle powered by steam, which was probably invented independent of Roper. In this case, despite the presence of a patent as of 1868, nothing indicates the invention was practical before 1871.
However, these compounds were invented before the first steam-powered motorcycle oil. Hildebrand 1894 and Wolfmller. English continued with the steam-powered bikes in the Edwardian period. Pearson and Cox's one company that made the units until the First World War. The first commercial products. In the decade from the late 1880s, featured dozens of designs and devices, particularly in France, Germany and England, and soon spread to America. During this early period of history, motorcycle, and there were many manufacturers since bicycle makers and their plans to adapt to the new internal combustion engine. In 1894, Hildebrand and Wolfmller became the first motorcycle available to the public for purchase. However, it was built than ever, only a few hundreds of examples of these motorcycles.