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	The inspiration for the earliest motorcycles, and arguably the first motorcycle, was designed and built by the [[Germany\|German]] inventors [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]] in [[Cannstatt]] (since 1905 a city district of [[Stuttgart]]) in [[1885]]. It was the first [[petroleum]]-powered vehicle ever, but for the provision of a pair of stabilizing wheels, a motorized [[bicycle]], although they called their invention the ''Reitwagen'' ("riding car"). They had not set out to create a vehicle form but to build a simple carriage for the engine which was the focus of their endeavours.		The inspiration for the earliest motorcycles, and arguably the first motorcycle, was designed and built by the [[Germany\|German]] inventors [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]] in [[Cannstatt]] (since 1905 a city district of [[Stuttgart]]) in 1885. It was the first [[petroleum]]-powered vehicle ever, but for the provision of a pair of stabilizing wheels, a motorized [[bicycle]], although they called their invention the ''Reitwagen'' ("riding car"). They had not set out to create a vehicle form but to build a simple carriage for the engine which was the focus of their endeavours.
	However,if one counts two wheels with steam propulsion as being a motorcycle, then the first one may have been American. One such machine was demonstrated at fairs and circuses in the eastern US in 1867, built by Sylvester Howard Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts. There is an existing example of a Roper machine, dated 1869. It's powered by a charcoal-fired two-cylinder engine, whose connecting rods directly drive a crank on the rear wheel. This machine predates the invention of the safety bicycle by many years, so its chassis is also based on the "bone-crusher" bike.		However,if one counts two wheels with steam propulsion as being a motorcycle, then the first one may have been American. One such machine was demonstrated at fairs and circuses in the eastern US in 1867, built by Sylvester Howard Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts. There is an existing example of a Roper machine, dated 1869. It's powered by a charcoal-fired two-cylinder engine, whose connecting rods directly drive a crank on the rear wheel. This machine predates the invention of the safety bicycle by many years, so its chassis is also based on the "bone-crusher" bike.