Surfer Motorcycle Live WP

Few people know today that the prototype of a modern bike wooden bike with a light steam engine. Such "steam scooters" were born in the 80s of the 19th century. The pioneer of this case was the long-forgotten today the company "Nortorp" who created the drawings engineer L. Copeland about two hundred "bicyclo" with a steam engine.

The famous German Gottlieb Daimler in 1885 created a compact engine. To demonstrate the engine he used a wooden bicycle. Soon after taking Hildebrand started small-scale production of similar self-propelled Germany.

Riding on the waves piece of wood - an integral part of Polynesian culture: it originated there and surfing. The first Europeans arrived in Polynesia only the XVIII century, and saw a strange picture for them: dozens of Aboriginal men and women completely naked, were carved from wood board and riding waves on the Black Sea littoral them. Lieutenant James King, who continued the path Pacific James Cook (which, as we know, eating cannibals), one of the first described a culture of surfing in Hawaii.