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Tucked on the back of the fairway at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2012 was this contraption, which looks like a cross between a bicycle and some kind of 19th-century medical device.
Brought by Mercedes, it's a replica of the world's first motorcycle — an attempt by Gottlieb Daimler to explore how he might package the four-stroke gasoline engine invented by Nicolaus Otto.
While there had been a steam-powered two-wheeler before, Daimler's invention, patented 128 years ago today, is generally considered the primordial vehicle from which modern motorcycles and automobiles evolved.
(The real item was lost in a fire during the 1930s.) Here's a close-up of another replica demonstrating how a rider might try to control it:
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