When was motorbike invented

Sylvester Roper , who spent the U. Civil War working in a Union armory, built a primitive "motorcycle" as early as Roper's supporters -- and he has more than a few -- argue that he should be credited with building the world's first motorcycle.

After the discovery of the bicycle in s France, inventors all around the world started formulating their designs for automated version of this transport device. With the help of machines available to them in that time, they produced several prototypes of motorcycles that would pave the way for all the future models.

Here we will describe the how the first motorcycle came to be. Lack of pedals or chain drive limited its use to small percentage of drivers, mostly children and younger men. This marked the point in from bicycle transport received massive boost of popularity and sales. Coincidentally, this also heralded the invention of the first motorcycles available for public purchase. Gone were the steam-pumping of old; internal combustion now provided propulsion for the motorcycle.

The First World War saw an increased interest in motorcycles for war communications, and at one point American manufacturer Harley-Davidson founded had devoted 50 per cent of its output to the war effort. Messengers on motorcycles became a more familiar sight than those on horseback, and the British company Triumph, which had switched from bicycles to motorcycles in , got in on the action with its Model H.

Harley-Davidson became the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world after World War 1, thanks in part to its wartime profits. Manufacture from all nations ramped up as peacetime citizens became even more interested in the machine, and the better the technology got, the faster the bikes went.

By the Second World War, production motorcycle speeds were reaching miles per hour, such as the unbelievably expensive Brough Superior — manufactured in Nottingham, England — which was a favourite of T.

Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence ultimately died of injuries from a crash while riding his beloved Brough. Another world war saw motorbikes in combat, and later gave rise to a new culture where motorbikes were used for recreation and to project a certain lifestyle.

Motorcycles were being designed to cater to an image as well as a function, and they got bigger, meaner, louder and faster than ever before.