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1912 Excelsior motorcycle on display at the California Automobile Museum 1914 Excelsior 1918 Henderson built by Excelsior. Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company was an American motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931. [1] It was purchased by Ignaz Schwinn, proprietor of bicycle manufacturer Arnold, Schwinn & Co ...
1910 Pierce Four motorcycle on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, Birmingham, Alabama. 1911 Pierce Motorcycle. George N. Pierce, owner of the GN Pierce Company, built refrigerators and bird cages in the 1890s, and expanded into bicycle manufacture by 1892, with the famous 'arrow' logo.
The first production motorcycle in the US was the Orient-Aster, built by Charles Metz in 1898 at his factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1898, Peugeot Motocycles presents at the Paris Motorshow the first motorcycle equipped with a Dion-Bouton motor. Peugeot Motocycles remains the oldest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.
William "Wild Bill" Gelbke (1936–1978, born in Green Bay, Wisconsin) was an American engineer and motorcycle designer.He is noted for having designed and constructed large motorcycles powered by automobile engines, particularly the Roadog [2] and the Auto Four, the latter a motorcycle intended for mass production.
The film is based on photojournalist Danny Lyon's 1968 book of the same name, featuring photos and interviews with members of the Chicago O 'Bikeriders' maneuvers through 60's Chicago motorcycle ...
List of motorcycles of the 1910s is a listing of motorcycles of the 1910s, including those on sale, introduced, or otherwise relevant in this period. The 1910s has their share of expensive historic motorcycles sold at auction, especially the brands Cyclone and Flying Merkel. [ 2 ]
Christened as Fuse, the bike runs on a Ducati engine and required over 1,000 hours to complete.
In September 1878, Weed Sewing Machine Company built the last of the fifty bikes under the first contract. Albert Pope chose the brand name Columbia for the first high-wheelers "produced" by Pope Manufacturing. These first machines, copied from the Excelsior Duplex model, were made from seventy-seven parts that were made in-house, and only the ...