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Author:	Geoff Aspel
Co-authors:	Bill Gunston
Title:	Motorcycles
Subtitle:	Granada Guides Motorcycles
Publisher:	Granada
Country:	UK
Date:	1982
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Reference, Transport
ISBN-10:	0246116293
First Published:	1981
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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12 x 18.5 mm, 68 pages

Granada Publishing Limited
Published by Granada Publishing 1981
Reprinted 1982
Copyright © Granada
Printed and bound in Great Britain by ©ollins, Glasgow

It is difficult to say when the motorcycle was invented.
Two-wheeled contraptions called hobby-horses, like
bicycles with no pedals, were popular before 1820.
Then pedals were added, but an engine was more
difficult. Stem engines were too cumbersome and gas
engines were not much better. In 1869 a Frenchman
called Michaux added a gas engine to a velocipede. But
in the late 1870s the petrol engine opened the way to
compact and quickly available power. The great pioneers
of the new engines were Germans: Nicolaus Otto, Karl
Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Wihelm Maybach.

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