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A motorcycle
(also called a motorbicycle, motorbike, bike, or cycle) is a
single-track,[1] two-wheeled[2] motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably
depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance
travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or
off-road conditions.
Motorcycles are the most affordable form of motorised transport in many
parts of the world, and for most of the world's population, they are also
the most common type of motor vehicle.[3][4][5] There are around 200 million
motorcycles (including mopeds, motor scooters and other powered two- and
three-wheelers) in use worldwide,[6] or about 33 motorcycles per 1000
people. This compares to around 590 million cars, or about 91 per 1000
people. Most of the motorcycles, 58%, are in the developing countries of
Asia – Southern and Eastern Asia, and the Asia Pacific countries, excluding
Japan – while 33% of the cars (195 million) are concentrated in the US and
Japan. As of 2002[update], in the two countries of India and China, there
were a total of only 15 million cars,[7] but 71 million motorcycles.
Arguably, the
first motorcycle was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb
Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt (since 1905 a city district of
Stuttgart) in 1885.[9] The first petroleum-powered vehicle was essentially a
motorised bicycle, although the inventors called their invention the
Reitwagen ("riding car"). It was designed as an expedient testbed for their
new engine, rather than a true prototype vehicle.[citation needed] However,
if a two-wheeled vehicle with steam propulsion is considered a motorcycle,
then the first one may have been American. One such machine was demonstrated
at fairs and circuses in the eastern U.S. in 1867, built by Sylvester Howard
Roper of Roxbury, Massachusett
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