Did you know motorcycles have been on the road for over 100 years?
The first one was invented in 1867 by Sylvester Howard Roper. The American creation was powered by a two-cylinder steam engine.
The first gas-engine motorcycle followed 20 years later and was invented in Germany by Gottlieb Daimler. His bike had a wooden frame with a four-stroke internal-combustion engine attached. Such engines were a fairly new development. They were only designed in 1876, by an engineer named Nicolaus August Otto.
While Daimler and Roper moved on to work on the automobile, there were others out there that continued to tinker with the idea of a motorbike. A few of these tinkers were William Harley and his two friends, Arthur and Walter Davidson, who launched the Harley-Davidson Motor Company in 1903.
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