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This picture taken in 1885, of Gottllieb Daimler's workshop in Bad Cannstatt where he built the wooden motorcycle shown. Daimler's son Paul rode this motorcycle from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and back on November 10, 1885. Daimler used a hot tube ignition system to get his engine speed up to 1000 rpm.

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thattechguy : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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771 days 15 hours ago...

That's awesome!

TVX : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

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771 days 9 hours ago...

Imagine if they had biker gangs at the time with those and bowler hats. It would have been kick ass.

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