Bernardi (1893)
The Bernardi (1893) was a motorcycle of the Italian professor Enrico Bernardi (born March 20, 1841 in Verona , † February 21, 1919 in Turin ). The engine was mounted on a unicycle trailer and powered a bicycle . The Bernardi is considered to be the first Italian motorcycle.
History and technology
Enrico Bernardi, professor at the University of Padua since 1878 , developed a small water-cooled four - stroke engine with hot-tube ignition from 1884 . Various experiments with the engine, which initially had a displacement of 122.5 cm³, u. a. built into a tricycle called "Motrice pia" (after his daughter's first name), eventually led to the drive of a bicycle that was pushed by a trailer . At the end of the tests in 1893, the “Lauro” engine - after the first name of his son, on whose bike the trailer was attached - had roughly the same displacement as the Daimler riding car , with an output of around 1/3 hp . The Polytechnic Journal then attested to the apparatus that "both the bicycle as the tricycle" could be appended a "mobility such that one can so easily on a 5 m wide road turn".
literature
- Christian Bartsch (ed.): A century of motorcycle technology . VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-400757-X .
- Hugo Wilson: The Lexicon of the Motorcycle . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-01719-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Wilson, p. 253.
- ↑ Christian Bartsch, p. 266.
- ↑ Christian Bartsch, p. 52.
- ↑ bicycles. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 299, 1896, pp. 172-179.
