Thank you for posting this.... late 1890's to early 1920s must have been an incredible time period to live in... the whole world was revolutionized. Highly underrated in history books IMO and purposefully so.
OK guys, here is some tech talk. Patent of 20 January 1894, 2 Cylinder four-stroke engine, 1488cc, Bore and stroke: 90 x 117mm, Ax. 2.5HP at 240rpm. Weight ax. 60kg and a maximum speed of ax. 50km/h. The Motorbike features a water-cooled ( the water is carried in the rear mudguard ) engine .The rear wheel acts as a cranckshaft and is driven by pistons similar to those in a locomotive. It has a surface carburetor and hot tube ignition. This really is the first production motorcycle ever !
A few years ago i did the 'hochalpenstrasse' in Austria in my '71 citroen DS21 Pallas and by chance stumbled upon the Vötters automuseum at the glacier (highest point on the paved road). I saw one of these machines there and was amazed by its existance and even more to learn that it still ran according to the museum. Great to see it on the road & i hope that it will be kept there, it has no buisness being pampered in some dusty garage. Great work guys !
@ShamilBasayev Sorry for taking so long. Thank you. Amazing how technology advances, and yet it's things such as this that make you wonder what it must have been like to see it chugging down the street in it's day. Fantastic. Thanks again.
It´s really amazing to see a 19th century machine still working today.I really wonder is there going to be any modern machines still working over 100 years in the future.
Das ist Genial!! Ich habe mir beim ansehen der Daten dieses legendären Motorrades, immer schon die Frage gestellt, wie es sich denn im Betrieb anhört. Danke!!
The primary reason for the design of this motorcycle is that two of its designers, Heinrich and Wilhelm Hildebrand, were steam engineers. It was originally intended to be steam driven, and that is very evident even in the final design.
i am asthonished about the name "Hildebrand" because a cousin of my grandfather called Geisenhof was the constructor and technican of this motorcycle. In Landsberg am Lech there was a remembering stoneplate on the wall of a house on my way to highschool DZG (i suppose a former workshop station) where Wolfmüller and Geisenhof were named as inventor of the first modern kind of the motorcycle.
105 years old,it runs, and it is amazing!. Connecting the pistons straight to the rear axel is killing three birds with one stone,no driveshaft,no transmission,no extra crankshaft.I wonder what kind of gas milage it gets.
The Hildebrand & Wolfmuller was released in 1894 and manufactured until 1897. At the time it only cost a few dollars, but now it comes with a much more expensive price tag: just over $3.5 million!
Amazing !. I have just read about this amazing bike and to see a video of it in action is almost as good as driving it myself. - THANX ! Is this a original 1896 or a replica ?
That is because it is heavily based on steam design. Instead of pressurized steam moving the pistons in the cylinder, it used gasoline! The rear wheel is also the flywheel and the pistons are attached to it like on a steam locomotive.
I understand that large rubber straps have to be used to provide the return impulse for the pistons because the rear wheel isn't heavy enough to work as an effective flywheel.
Totally cool. Sounds a little like a friends "hit and miss" but look at it go. How much fun one could have had back in 1896. I know that here in the states, speed limits had been instituted to keep automobiles from speeding, and scaring horses. How fast would this go?
Thank you for posting this.... late 1890's to early 1920s must have been an incredible time period to live in... the whole world was revolutionized. Highly underrated in history books IMO and purposefully so.
OK guys, here is some tech talk.
Patent of 20 January 1894, 2 Cylinder four-stroke engine, 1488cc, Bore and stroke: 90 x 117mm, Ax. 2.5HP at 240rpm. Weight ax. 60kg and a maximum speed of ax. 50km/h. The Motorbike features a water-cooled ( the water is carried in the rear mudguard ) engine .The rear wheel acts as a cranckshaft and is driven by pistons similar to those in a locomotive.
It has a surface carburetor and hot tube ignition.
This really is the first production motorcycle ever !
A few years ago i did the 'hochalpenstrasse' in Austria in my '71 citroen DS21 Pallas and by chance stumbled upon the Vötters automuseum at the glacier (highest point on the paved road). I saw one of these machines there and was amazed by its existance and even more to learn that it still ran according to the museum.
Great to see it on the road & i hope that it will be kept there, it has no buisness being pampered in some dusty garage.
Great work guys !
Very good, thanks for the video. Have always wondered how this model sounded and ran. Nice to see an old machine that is still operational.
@ShamilBasayev Sorry for taking so long. Thank you. Amazing how technology advances, and yet it's things such as this that make you wonder what it must have been like to see it chugging down the street in it's day. Fantastic. Thanks again.
AMAZING! I love how the owner still rides it, the way it was meant to be!
Wow,just wow.One really has to admire ingenuity and engineering of old motorcycles.
The very first production motorbike.
It´s really amazing to see a 19th century machine still working today.I really wonder is there going to be any modern machines still working over 100 years in the future.
Das ist Genial!!
Ich habe mir beim ansehen der Daten dieses legendären Motorrades, immer schon die Frage gestellt, wie es sich denn im Betrieb anhört.
Danke!!
A 1894 model was sold, (unrestored), at auction in England in 2010 for $US130,000
You can buy a new Replica for only $130000 😱
Wow! I would love to ride one of those.
The primary reason for the design of this motorcycle is that two of its designers, Heinrich and Wilhelm Hildebrand, were steam engineers. It was originally intended to be steam driven, and that is very evident even in the final design.
Beautiful !
Excellent work !!!
i am asthonished about the name "Hildebrand" because a cousin of my grandfather called Geisenhof was the constructor and technican of this motorcycle. In Landsberg am Lech there was a remembering stoneplate on the wall of a house on my way to highschool DZG (i suppose a former workshop station) where Wolfmüller and Geisenhof were named as inventor of the first modern kind of the motorcycle.
Echt supermooi man!Die wil ik wel eens van dichtbij zien en horen! :-)
That IS the coolest motorcycle!
105 years old,it runs, and it is amazing!. Connecting the pistons straight to the rear axel is killing three birds with one stone,no driveshaft,no transmission,no extra crankshaft.I wonder what kind of gas milage it gets.
but no clutch
imagine rolling up to the meet on this
The Hildebrand & Wolfmuller was released in 1894 and manufactured until 1897. At the time it only cost a few dollars, but now it comes with a much more expensive price tag: just over $3.5 million!
Amazing !. I have just read about this amazing bike and to see a video of it in action is almost as good as driving it myself.
- THANX !
Is this a original 1896 or a replica ?
What a nice bike. Lucky guy
That is because it is heavily based on steam design. Instead of pressurized steam moving the pistons in the cylinder, it used gasoline! The rear wheel is also the flywheel and the pistons are attached to it like on a steam locomotive.
drive this, wearing a moustache... awesome!
now just needs a monocle and a nice topper. Sir.
Чих-пых чих-пых но ведь едет чёрт возьми :)
That was so awesome! I wish you had a helmet cam segment in the video, going a higher speed.
I understand that large rubber straps have to be used to provide the return impulse for the pistons because the rear wheel isn't heavy enough to work as an effective flywheel.
@vtwinohc That was very knowledgeable... thanks.....
Runs good for a machine that's over 121 years old.
It's simply poetry
First motorbike coming in Indonesian
It would have been nice to demonstrate that wondrous machine in a" closer-up "mode.
thats cool I want one then ill take it to the highway.
@moisiemo
Original. Probably the only working example of the first production motorcycle.
Anda mais que a minha bicicleta e que a moto do meu vizinho !
Incredible! I cant belive you have a wokring model! How hard was it to restore?
Totally cool. Sounds a little like a friends "hit and miss" but look at it go. How much fun one could have had back in 1896. I know that here in the states, speed limits had been instituted to keep automobiles from speeding, and scaring horses. How fast would this go?
Tak tak tak
Its like the Chiti Chiti Bang Bang of motorcycles
needs a set of mikuni flat slides, and a kerker megaphone... lol
Awesome! Is this an original or a replica?
She's like a two wheeled steam locomotive.
really cool motorcycle!
but how to stop that thing? It look like it doesnt have a clutch or something else^^
(sorry for my bad english)
Почти не дымит уголь из Кардиффа завезли ?
dit is stukken beter dan een ketting of cardan.Hier is vast geen 2e van,schitterend!
@NcalBiker 28-31 mph
this is the firist motorcycle from all time????
want one
the machine look like a steam bike .kha...ching...kha...ching... is it ?