The history of the creation of a motorcycle

The year of the appearance of the first motorcycle can be considered 1885-th, when some Gottlieb Daimler he lived in Germany, built a car for the ride, representing a Bicycle with a wooden frame and transfer with the belt, it was installed 1-cylinder petrol engine of cubic capacity of 264 cubic cm and developed the capacity of 0.5 HP that allowed to reach speed of 12 km/h.
In England the emergence of a two-wheeled miracle connected with the name of er. Butler in 1887, in France - f. Millet, and in Italy - e. Bernardi in 1893. The invention of the same motorcycle awakened in man the constant desire to setting speed records. Since then, especially the honorable achievement is the establishment of an Absolute maximum Speed (ARS), in which is recorded the largest developed speed.
(ARS) - When determining the Absolute Record-breaking Speed of the motorcycle races, in turn, share on remote basis of:
- from 1898. - adoption of the minimum distance for the establishment of ARS - 1 km.
- 1909. - Establishment of ARS happened at large distances. Race of this type was conducted to establish the TIME of the RECORD.
The end of the 90-ies of the past century is considered the beginning of the era of the conquest of absolute record among the motorcycles, which continues to this day. And then we will introduce you with the evolution of the establishment of ARS for motorcycles with 1898-1962 gg. Conditionally the era of ARS can be divided into periods:
Race on a distance of 1 km.
The first period (1898-1902).
A special feature of the first period of follow-up was the fact that the establishment of the ARS was conducted only in three cycles. Trike - three-wheeled racing bike, specially built for record-breaking runs. On tricycles installed huge in size motors, mainly 2-cylinder, with a capacity of approximately 4 liters. Under such assumption of tricycles were divided into classes not on the working volume of the engine, and the mass. - The first ARS were the French racers, thanks to which the absolute speed record has increased from 49 to 100 km/h.
- They played the three cycles of such French companies as: De Dion-Bouton (De Dion-Bouton), Buchet (Bush).
- For the first time abroad speed of 100 km/h was taken by the French racer Well. Osmon in 1901, in Asher on the trike firm "De Dion-Bouton", with the engine capacity of 6 kW.
- In the same, 1901 In. Ригаль on a Buchet in Asher developed speed 108,4 km/h.
The second period (1903 - 1929).
Since the beginning of the second period to replace the trikes came two-wheeled motorcycles. on July 8, 1904, in the Czech city of Пакове a group of enthusiasts of Motorsport from several countries was founded by the international Federation of motorcycle clubs-FICM, the predecessor of the current FIM. Its creation was dictated by the fact that by the time defined the specificity of competition and established clear terminology, between motorcycles and cars. Previously approved by the classification of motorcycles by weight in 1910, has been replaced with the classification on the working volume of the engine, the limit of the figure amounted to 1000 cm3.
Since 1922, the runs were performed in two directions.
- With 1910-1929 g. On racing motorcycles were 2-cylinder, V-shaped engines, with a capacity of 1000 cm3. Drive motorcycles had an exceptionally friction clutch.
- High-speed indicators ARS second period increased from 110 to 207,53 km/h and installed on motorcycles such firms: "Brough Superior" (England), Indian (Indian, USA), H. D. (USA):
In 1911, J. de on a motorcycle Indian in Бруклендсе developed speed 142,83 km/h.
- The first 100-mile mark (161 km/h) on the road Fresno (California) overcame D.KH. Davidson in 1921 on a motorcycle H. D. with the working volume of the engine of 1000 cm3.
- Herbert Le Вакк on a motorcycle "Brough Superior" has increased a record speed in 1929 to 207,53 km/h. He, by the way, is the sevenfold champion of the ARS, which in the period from 1920 to 1929, increased by a record speed of 153 km/h to 207,53 km/h.
The third period (1929 and 1937.)
In the third period to replace motorcycles with belt transmission came motorcycles with the driveshaft. But the motorcycles with 2-cylinder V-shaped engine, appeared model 2-cylinder engines. Engines of both types were equipped with a compressor pack blower. The leading position in this period was occupied by the British and the Germans, who were on a "Brough Superior" and BMW.

Ernst hennea on the freeway, Frankfurt - Darmstadt hits a new world record of speed on the 108-strong compress motorcycle BMW capacity of 500 cubic cm. The result is simply stunning: developing speed 279,5 km/h, Ernst hennea becomes the fastest among motorcyclists of the planet. The world record, delivered November 28, 1937, lasted for 14 years.
The fourth period (1951-1962 gg.)
Record motorcycles this period had a cigar-shaped, 2-cylinder engines were charged with and without it. As fuel served as a mixture of methanol with nitromethane. Working volume of the engine ranged from 500 to 1000 cm3. Motorcycles-most of this period: "NSU" and "TRIUMPH".
- The second world war for a long time delayed the development of the ARS. After a time, only in 1951, driver V. Herz in Munich was established a new absolute record - 290 km/h on a motorcycle NSU with a two-cylinder compressor engine capacity of 500 cm3.
- In 1956, the riders of the West-German company "NSU" set speed records in a natural track (dried-up salt lake salt lake - USA). As a result, in. She set another record an absolute record - 339 km/h on a sample of the previous record motorcycle NSU, 500 cm3. The race was held at the distance of 1 mile.
"The next record of speed on the highway salt lake was officially registered in 1962 on a racing motorcycle Triumph 667 cm3 V. Johnson  - 361,41 km/h.
As you can see, high speed output absolute records in 1962, has passed for a mark of 350 km/h, and the conquest of ARS continued