Daimler Einspur: The World's First Motorcycle

German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach were hard at work "inventing motorized transportation" in the mid-1880s. Within a period of 18 months they had working patent models for two, three and four-wheeled vehicles!

Daimler and Maybach are credited with making the world's first gasoline powered two-wheel transport. Since the original was lost in a fire over 100 years ago, new on display in the Museum lobby is this accurate replica of the "Einspur", German for "single track", complete with the odd outriggers Daimler and Maybach designed apparently because the Einspur did not make much speed.