The First Commercial Motorcycles

The First Commercial motorcycles

From the late 1880s During the early period of motorcycle history, there were many manufacturers of bicycle the makers were adapting to new designs for the new in built internal combustion engine. In early 1894 the Hidebrand and Wolfmuller motorcycles became the very first series production motorcycle and also the first to be called a motorcycle. 

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Heinrich and Wilhelm Hidebrand were steam-engine engineers before they teamed up with Alois Wolfmuller to produce their internal combustion Motorrad in Munich  in 1894. 
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The company Exelsior motor company, who where original a bicycle manufacturing based company based in England, soon began a new production of their own motorcycle model in 1896 it was soon available to the public for purchase. The first production model was the Orient - aster,  built by Charles Metz in 1898 in is factory in Waltham, Massachusetts.


In the very early stages of the motorcycle history many bicycle producers adapted their designs around the new internal combustion engine more engine designs where being made and because of this the engine soon outgrew the bicycle. Later on in the motorcycle history many more producers started popping up. many of the inventors who had worked on the early motorcycle design decided to make new inventions like the automobiles.