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Post by tj 3rd December 2009, 09:36

We all ride bikes... but where do they come from?

Who was that ingenious person that thought of the idea first?

Guys, I present to you Wilhelm Maybach and Adolf Daimler.

Was this perhaps the birth of our Beemers?

(If the script is a bit small for those post 40 eyes, use 'Ctrl+' lavishly)

(Compliments and credit to Popular Mechanics, November 2009)

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Post by Sias 3rd December 2009, 12:16

He obviously didn’t know then that this would be such a chick magnet. No provision for a pillion! Laughing
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Post by Gemmerkat 4th December 2009, 10:55

On the first trip this motorbike did, 13km near Stuttgart in Germany, the hot engine set fire to the saddle, presumably making this the first, but not the last, example of a young motorcyclist riding as though his trousers were on fire. (from "History of the motorbike"
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