Daimler Reitwagen, First Motorcycle With Gasoline Machine In The World

JAKARTA - In the early 20th century, motorcycles began to become popular and many well-known car manufacturers such as Indian Motorcycle, Harley-Davidson, and Triumph started producing motorbikes for the consumer market.

Now there are so many motorcycle manufacturers and countless motorbikes circulating. However, many also do not know the first motorbike in the world.

In the Mercedes-benz media space, it was revealed that the world's first gasoline-powered motor was Daimler Reitwagen, created by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1885. Because of this discovery, Daimler is often referred to as the "father of motorcycles".

In November 1885, Daimler Reitwagen made his first trip on a fairly far public road in public, when Gottlieb Daimler's son, Adolf, completed a three-kilometer route from Cannstatt to Untertörkheim. Although this distance is only 12 km, it looks close to today's times, but at that time it was a big step.

Daimler Reitwagen is the first vehicle equipped with a high-speed combustion engine and is also the direct ancestor of the car. This is because the motor engine was re-developed for use in Daimler cars that appeared in 1886.

Daimler's motorcycle, which uses a wooden frame powered by a one-cylindrical engine, was patented on April 3, 1885. This is a milestone in motorcycle technology, because although small, the gasoline engine was more powerful than other internal combustion engines at that time.

Previously, Ernest Michaux, a man from France, also made a motorbike in the 1800s by relying on a steam engine with a frame that resembles a circus. Then in the United States in the late 1800s, Sylvester Roper, a man from Boston, also started selling a motor with a steam power named Roper Steam Velocipide.

Nevertheless, Daimler Reitwagen is considered an early milestone in the history of motor vehicle development and is the basis for many innovations and technologies used in today's modern motors.