Join us as we examine the history of the motorcycle engine from steam to stroke. Read more: 10 Of The Most Reliable Motorcycles Ever Built The number of cylinders and strokes an engine uses to ...

This video features a vintage live steam road roller made by the English brand Mamod around 1960, founded in Birmingham in ...

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." ...

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 ...

this Black Pearl is a land vehicle powered by a steam engine. Constructed by Dutch company Revatu Customs, the two-wheeled locomotive is a fully functioning motorcycle, albeit a slow one.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...