Roper's steam concept may have been futuristic ... Modern single-cylinder motorcycle engines generally range in displacement from 49 cc in the Super Cub to 450 cc in motocross bikes, but they ...

Colby Higgins is a design student in Boston, and Train Wreck is his brainchild: just like the name suggests it, we're dealing with an amazing steam engine bike concept. It's really hard to point ...

The Roper Steam Cycle hence has a provenance of ... accepts only the internal combustion engine for a motorcycle, writing "History follows things that succeed, not things that fail." ...

The motorcycle was invented ... son Ernest had an epiphany and thought it would be nice to mount one with a steam engine. The first steam-powered motorcycle was born. A Michaux-Perreaux steam ...

It’s the most fun because it’s a bike and it’s a jet, and because it’s the best motorcycle ever for ... surely it beats high pressure steam. Also, when’s the last time you ever heard of an internal ...

barely functional steam punk motorcycle. If this isn’t hacker art, then we don’t know what is. The most eye-catching part of the motorcycle is the engine and drive train, with most of the ...

A small steam engine was attached to a velocipede – it was the first motorcycle. (via Wikimedia Commons) (via John Burke/Flickr) The colorful steam trucks and tractors were common in the first ...

However, long before it, the first motorcycle (which means a motorized bicycle) came courtesy of a guy called Sylvester Howard Roper. He had the idea of plonking a steam-powered engine into a ...

Unlike earlier acclaimed efforts, such as Sylvester Roper's steam-powered "motorcycle" of approximately 1867, this machine was powered by an engine as we'd more or less understand an ICE today.