Limited to 100 years ago, when the temporary fence engine is still in the low state of childish, yet when the vehicle manufacturing technology for the carriage stage, the original motorcycle with modern motorcycle in the shape, structure and performance are very different. The original motorcycle frame is wood. From the wood point of view, is a carpenter processed, and the wheel is made of wood, covered with a metal outer wheel, the frame in the bottom of a few square wooden frame, and its place on the engine, on each side of a wooden frame small supporting wheels, its role is still time to prevent the dumping. Therefore, the car is actually four ground. Fan cooled single-cylinder engine, the output power through the belt and double reduction gear drive, driving the rear wheels forward. Made of saddle-shaped seat, wrapped in a layer of leather. The engine cylinder working volume of medical equipment, the maximum power of 0.37kW (700r/min), only simple modern motorcycle 1 / 5. Speed of 12km, not much faster than walking. Since there was no spring buffering device, this car was known as the "Earthquake bone car." Imagine, in the 19th century stone streets on the road, just as worse than the execution. Although the original motorcycle is so simple, but since then motorcycle to constant change, continuous improvement, have hundreds of millions of units of 100 years of modern motorcycle descendants.
Harley-Davidson has become a nostalgic sign of the times. 1907 Harley - Davidson produced the first V-twin engine, the more traditional screen printing machine, it can provide twice the power for the motorcycle. This style of engine in the United States 80 years of motorcycle manufacturing in history, played a dominant role. In the 1930s, Harley-Davidson's U.S. sales topped the list; to 40 years, Harley-Davidson motorcycles by the British challenge, because they are lighter, faster; in the early 1960s, small-displacement motorcycle in Japan flooding the U.S. market; 1969, Harley-Davidson and American Machine and Foundry Company merger, capital and resources to strengthen the market; the late 1980s, the overall revitalization of Harley-Davidson motorcycle, a motorcycle it is produced every guarantee of quality.
After Past Indian company is a star, it was spectacular. In 1899, engineer Oscar Hyde built a motorized two-wheelers, the motorcycle company pipe chamfering machine Indian history. Period of time, Indian companies to bright colors and excellent performance conquered the buyer, the latter by several times and some of its main short-sighted investment behavior and frustrated in the 1950s, ended its historic mission.
There is no doubt that Japan is Asia's modern industry representatives, in the motorcycle industry as well. Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawasaki of Japan's four most famous motorcycle company. Including Honda and Yamaha in the last century, when starting to rely on imitation of the Italian Piaggio, BMW in Germany and the off road motorcycle Harley started. So far we can still see a lot of Honda car models and these are exactly the same size or even the details, enough real ones. The only difference is that now Yamaha has begun to create their own or someone else's creative changes in the look, but Honda has been committed, or to imitate someone else's case.