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The Velocette LE is a motorcycle made by Veloce Ltd from 1948 to 1971. The designation LE stood for "little engine". [4] Used by over fifty British Police forces, the police riders became known as "Noddies" because they were required to nod to senior officers, and the LE was nicknamed "the Noddy Bike". [5]
The trike pictured is called the SUV (Sensible Utility Vehicle) and is produced by the company Organic Engines, which operates in Florida in the United States. It is a front wheel drive tricycle, articulated behind the driver seat, and has hydraulic double disc brakes and internal hub gears .
A Boston Police Department motorcycle on St Patrick's Day In 2008 Baden-Württemberg Police officers on police motorcycles. A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by police and law enforcement. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular use. Units that use motorcycles are often called motorcycle units or motor ...
List of motorized trikes is a list of motorized tricycles also called trikes, and sometimes considered cars. There are three typical configurations: motorized bicycle with sidecar; two wheels in the rear, one in the front (aka trike); and two in front, one in the rear (aka reverse trike).
1896 – Roy C. Marks of San Francisco produces the first motorcycle made in the USA. It becomes the California Motorcycle. [6] 1897 – Most likely the first electric bicycle was built in 1897 by Hosea W. Libbey. [7] 1897 – The Werner Brothers of France developed a motorized bicycle with a De Dion-Bouton engine mounted above the front wheel. [8]
One of these, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, [4] is regarded as the first purpose-built automobile. It was made in 1885. In 1896, John Henry Knight showed a tri-car at The Great Exhibition. [3] In 1897, Edward Butler made the Butler Petrol Cycle, another three-wheeled car.
Excelsior Motor Company, originally a bicycle-manufacturing company based in Coventry in Warwickshire , began production of their first motorcycle model in 1896, available for purchase by the public. The first production motorcycle in the US was the Orient-Aster, built by Charles Metz in 1898 at his factory in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The Tri Glide Ultra Classic is the first three-wheeled motorcycle produced by Harley-Davidson since the Harley-Davidson Servi-Car, which was manufactured from 1932 to 1973. [ 1 ] The Tri Glide is based on the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Classic , a conventional two-wheeled touring motorcycle . [ 1 ]