Hero Motocorp

They were originally partners with Honda but split from them in 2011, there original name was Hero Honda. 

Hero Motocorp are a Japenese company they manly make 150cc bikes but 200cc aren't uncommon. The bikes are designed for bad roads and are very strong. The are huge company and have loads of money but there bikes are not very powerful but they are cheap to buy!

In 2011 they launch mew versions of Glamour, Glamour Fi, CBZ Xtreme, Karizma. There most successful bikes are the Slpendor NXG and the Karizma ZMR. 

Splendor

Weighs 112kg it's engine power is 7bhp

Karizma ZMR 

Weighs 112kg and engine power of 20bhp

Bajaj

Bajaj is and Indian Motor bike manufacturer, it makes two wheeler, three wheeler, scooters and auto rickshaws. 

It began in the 1930s and is now the third largest manufacturer of motorbikes and are the largest exporters of motorbikes. The company was founded by Jamnalal Bajaj in Rajastan. It became a private limited company in 1960. They also got there licence from the government to produce there own Motorbikes. The company is now located in over 

There first bike under the new licence was the Vespa 150 was powered by a 98 cc engine that delivered 3.2 bhp at 4,500 rpm with a top speed of 60 km/h.

Bajaj motors most recent motorbike is thee Pulsar 150 it's max power is 15bhp, it ways 173kg and is a 149cc engine.

Honda Motorbikes

Honda are one of the top three producers of Motorbikes today. They have been making Motorbikes since 1955 and it has become the largest motorbike manufacturer since 1959. At Hondas peek in 1982 Honda manufactured over 3 million motorbikes a year, but by 2006 it had dropped by 550,000 but still beating it's other 3 main competitors.

Honda was founded by Soichiro Honda, a mechanic. At first he tried to sell the design to Toyota but they declined, which determined him to start his own company. So, ten years later, in 1948 Honda Motor was officially founded. In their early days, Honda produced scooters and motorcycles and their first model was the A-Type, in 1947. Some don't believe it's a motorbike because the company was not founded yet. 

To make everybody happy, the first bike under the Honda brand was released in 1949 and was called Dream D-Type. It produced 3 horse and had a full 98cc engine. After this came their first big seller, the 146cc, OHV, four-stroke E-Type Dream which reached a production of 130 units per day by October 1951. One year later, they made the F-Type, which had a 50cc two-stroke engine.

The three most popular Honda Models are the:

Honda CBR
It produces 83bhp weighs 397lbs and is 600cc

Honda Gold Wing
It weighs 635lbs (fully fuelled) it's is 80 horse powered

Honda Shadow
It weighs 573lbs and 50bhp

The First Motorbikes

The first Motorbikes

 The first motorbike was made in the second half of the 19^th century, In the 1860s Pierre Michaux a French black smith founded the Michaux company ‘Michaux et Cie’. They first company to make bicycles with pedals they were known as velocipede at the time. The first steam powered motorcycle, the Michaux-Perreaux steam veloipede, it was made in 1867 when Pierre's son Ernest Michaux fitted a small steam engine to one of the velocipedes.

 

Michaux-Perreaux steam veloipede.
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      http://www.oldtimerworld.be/PuddingBasins/index.htm

An American Sylvester H. Roper made a new style bike with a coal-fired boiler between the wheels. In 1868, a French engineer Louis-Guillaume Pereaux made a similar steam powered single bike but instead he used an alcohol burner and belt drives. In 1881 Lucius Copeland from Arizona made a bike with a smaller boiler and with a larger rear wheel. Lucius Copeland in 1887 started the company Northrop Manufacturing Co. and produced the first Motorbike it was a three wheeler.



Butler Petrol Cycle
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http://www.motorpasionmoto.com

 The first commercial designed motorbike was the Butler Petrol Cycle. This was invented by English man Edward Butler in 1884.



 The first commercial produce of motorbikes were the Hildebrand and Wolfmüller. The Excelsior Motor Company started produce of this bike in 1898 in England. The first production in America was in the Waltham factory in Massachusetts the made the Orient-Aster motor bike made by Charles Metz.

Hildebrand & Wolfmüller
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http://thevintagent.blogspot.ie

Orient-Aster
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http://www.vf750fd.com/blurbs/first.html

 

 



Geography of Motorbikes

Hello viewers, in my blog I'm going to be talking about the Geography of motorbikes. I will talk about Geography of Motorbikes in general and the top 3 producers of motorbikes, Honda, Bajaj auto and Hero MotoCorp. I will also talk bout things like most sold Motorbike, fastest and best quality bike.