Motorbike

Motorbike NSU Quick (1936)

As a motor bike , the first originally motorcycles called. Emil Capitaine received a patent for a motor bike in 1896. The Werner from 1897 is considered to be the first motorcycle. In the 1930s the term was established for small motorcycles. In 1968, Art. 44 of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic equated motorcycles and motorcycles (Germany: motorcycles).

Germany

Rex motor bike.

The development of motorcycles had its origins in bicycle-like vehicles with pedal cranks, which in retrospect can be classified as motorcycles or mopeds , but were called motorcycles at the time. In Germany, small motorcycles that were developed out of the necessity of the global economic crisis were called motorcycles . In 1930 ILO as well as Fichtel and Sachs developed built- in and add-on engines, initially with 60, then 74 and 98 cm³ displacement, which made 2.25  hp . The nose piston two-stroke engines reached 30 percent by the mid-1930s and 45 percent of the total motorcycle production in Germany in 1948 and 1949. While the classic motorcycles increased in size, performance and price, a start was also made on organically integrating small motors with a maximum of 50 cm³ into bicycle-like two-wheelers. In Germany, development began with the Rex moped and the Kreidler K 50, which at the time were known as small motorcycles . With the new legal definition of bicycle with auxiliary motor and moped in 1953, the term motorbike disappeared in Germany.

Austria

A motorbike according to Austrian law is a moped within the meaning of Directive 2002/24 / EC ( § 2 Paragraph 1 Z. 14 KFG ). A minimum age of 15 years and a moped ID is required to drive a motorcycle in Austria. Anyone who has a driving license, regardless of the class, does not need a moped license. Since the vehicle is legally a motorcycle, a type or individual approval, official registration with license plate and liability insurance are mandatory. According to § 106 Abs. 7 Z. 1 KFG helmet is compulsory.

Switzerland

A motorbike is a legal term in Switzerland and is regulated in Art. 175 VTS . The minimum age for riding a motorbike is 14 years according to Art. 6 VRV . According to Art. 3 VRV , you need a driver's license for motorcycles to drive , which you receive after passing the theory test and an eye test . This license is not required for those people who are in possession of a driver's license . According to Art. 18 VTS, a design-related maximum vehicle speed of 30 km / h applies . Motorbikes include, for example, mopeds .

literature

• Johann Kleine Vennekate: Small machines really big. Motorcycles Saxonette mopeds. 1930-1955 . Schrader publishing house. 1st edition 1996. ISBN 3-613-87150-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Anton Daul: Illustrated history of the invention of the bicycle and the development of motorcycles. Creutz publishing house, Dresden, 1906.
2. ↑ bicycles. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 306, 1897, pp. 54-59.
3. ↑ Johann Kleine Vennekate: p. 8
4. ↑ Johann Small Venne Kate S. 5 and 9
5. ↑ Changes in motorcycle construction . In: Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift . 10/1953, pp. 276-283; 11/1953, pp. 316-317 and 12/1953, pp. 340-341.