The first attempts of humanity to create a motorcycle began when there was no pneumatic tyres, and looked rather strange. Let's talk about the invention of a French engineer Félix Millet, which originated this story of modern "iron horses".
Multi-cylinder engines star appeared on motorcycles long before they started to put on the plane. Yes themselves and aircraft at the time was not yet. In 1887, 16 years before the first flight of the Wright brothers' airplane in France has traveled three-wheeled bicycle motorcycle stroller Felix Millet, equipped with a five-cylinder radial air-cooled engine. And this was rotative engine, ie its cylinder rotates when working around a fixed crankshaft. In aviation, these engines have begun to apply only at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century.
Actually, Millet and was the inventor of the motor rotativnogo. In its motokolâske engine and front wheel were one unit, rotating synchronously on the same axis. Cylinder heads were joined with a circular rim, along which ran a tube with wires to the ignition plugs. The fuel mixture from the carburettor fed to the cylinders through a tubular shaft, at the same time as crankshaft. When 180 RPM engine developed one horsepower power. Launch was performed by rotation of the pedals, and if the engine is broke or end fuel, the same you can somehow continue.
Rear axle and rear wheel cars, which were made of wood, eventually lost, but well preserved its front part. Pay attention to the depreciation of the front wheel-pneumatic tyre did not yet exist. There was no gearshift mechanism, and the number of revolutions of the motor-wheel only damper was regulated by CARB. The images show Wicker Chair for the passenger, who was sitting with your back to the direction of traffic.
In 1892 the year Millet designed the motorcycle or moped is a classic two-wheel drive diagram on the rear wheel, but with the exact same as tricycle ride, power plant. This moped, which preserved the duplicate pedal drive, but not directly, but through the circuit, byp is patented in several countries and made a few copies with some structural differences. Maximum engine capacity was 1.2 HP, top speed of the moped is 35 km/h.
Moped Mille sample 1892 year already had a pneumatic rubber tires. Between the wheels have cylindrical fuel tank. Spring fork of the front wheel and front mud flap serves as a shock absorber.
