Motorcycle
Motocicleta
- Date
- 1885 · confidence high
- Place
- Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
- Credited to
- Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach (Reitwagen, 1885); Hildebrand & Wolfmüller (first mass-produced, Munich, 1894)
- People
- 👤 Alois Wolfmüller1864–1948👤 Gottlieb Daimler1834–1900👤 Wilhelm Maybach1846–1929
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Wooden bicycle with a Daimler petrol engine, a test bed for his fast engine. The Hildebrand & Wolfmüller was the first vehicle called 'Motorrad' and the first mass-produced.
What it led to
- Cheap individual mobility and motor sport
- Military despatch riding in both world wars
- Post-war moped and scooter (Vespa)
Built on
Made possible
- Scooter
- Moped