The First Ride…

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Photo: Daimler Reitwagen. Wladyslaw, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In November of 1885, 17-year-old Paul Daimler went for a motorcycle ride on the first ICE engine motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen (built by his father, Gottlieb Daimler, and Wilhelm Maybach). The date he made this ride is up for debate with some reporting that it was on November 10th and others on November 18th. No matter the exact date, it is an important milestone in motorcycling history.

When was your first ride?

Check out our own "firsts" in these past blog posts:

Balancing Act

My first bicycle was a 20” Huffy. Deep candy red with white pinstripes on its triangle-shaped fenders. I remember it so perfectly because this was the bike I first learned how to balance without training wheels... Read more »

I Forgot.

My first bicycle was a 20” Huffy. Deep candy red with white pinstLast week was the first time I rode on the back of a motorcycle in more than ten years. It was the first time I rode with my husband, Aerostich’s “Mr. Subjective”, whose life revolves around the activity... Read more »

First Ride: Easy, Fun, Cool!

Despite our record-breaking El Niño winter warmth right now here it’s six-tenths of a degree below zero (ºf) and there’s a Zero electric motorcycle silently sitting outside in the driveway, asleep save for a small green ‘I’m charging now’ LED blinking at the base of the speedo... Read more »

Your First Bike Trip

The first few days of travel and dealing with the straps, soft duffels and bags will teach you if your setup is good for you. The idea is to have things secure, semi-easy to get to, and not too much of a problem to remove... Read more »