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First motorcycle was a diesel - Dave says nay :(

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"The executives have something to show the Teutuls too: a wood and brass motorcycle built by German automobile inventor Gottlieb Daimler in 1885. It runs on lantern oil and has no spark plugs, just an open flame and boiler.

Senior gets to try it out and quickly gets the bike up to its top speed -- 7 MPH. Paulie feels that having Daimler's bike there makes a nice circle: the first bike ever made and the latest in bike design, together at OCC."
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First motorcycle was not a diesel :(

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First motorcycle was not a diesel :(

First motorcycle had a hot bulb/tube ignition engine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l681_yu7Yvs , not a compression ignition engine (Diesel). First Diesel engine (prototype) was built in 1897; the motorcycle in question was built in 1885, 12 years before the Diesel engine.

I'm sorry, not my fault, now I feel bad :cry:

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