Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The most known and famous bikers and riders group in Bangladesh is BD BIKERZ. They are the largest bikers group in Bangladesh they have a huge number of member.BD BIKERZ belive :"Think 'Creative', Think 'New'" - may sound like a motto, but the history says that this is behind the success story of the human race. We are thriving forward with this commitment to our stakeholders, members, clients and society that "WE KNOW WHAT WE DO. AND WE KNOW IT THE BEST." BD BIKERZ is an organization for Motor bikers .Other automobiles like car owners and also people without any vehicle, who likes automotive sports can he our members. This is an alumni organization which will try to extend its hands for all possible assistances to meet all probable needs for the bikers of Bangladesh. This organization is working for various social awareness programs including Traffic awareness, Safety on Roads and other programs like Awareness on AIDS and Drugs Control, BD BIKERZ will organize nationwide different kinds of events, e.g. Sports, cultural programs, rallies, etc.BD BIKERZ believes biking is an sport and also bike is the smartest, fastest and easy to move anywhere and environment friendly vehicle. This organization also believes that more usage of bike can be a smart move to reduce traffic jam of Dhaka city rather than using non motorized 3 wheel vehicles. Encouraging people, especially women of Bangladesh, to start using bikes may be the first step to ascend to this solution like our neighboring countries like Vietnam, Thailand, China and India
Saturday, April 10, 2010
History
The first internal combustion, petroleum fuelled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen. It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt in 1885.[9] This vehicle was unlike either the safety bicycles and boneshaker bicycles of the era in that it had zero degrees of steering axis angle and no fork offset, and thus not using the principles of bicycle and motorcycle dynamics developed 30 years earlier. Instead, it relied on two outrigger wheels to remain upright while turning.[10] The inventors called their invention the Reitwagen ("riding car"). It was designed as an expedient testbed for their new engine, rather than a true prototype vehicle.[11][12] Many authorities define motorcycle this way, excluding steam engined as well as electric and diesel two-wheelers, and thus give credit the Daimler Reitwagen as the world's first motorcycle.[13][14]
If a two-wheeled vehicle with steam propulsion is considered a motorcycle, then the first was the French Michaux-Perreaux steam bicycle of 1868.[11][12] This was followed by the American Roper steam velocipede of 1869.[11][12] One such machine was demonstrated at fairs and circuses in the eastern U.S. in 1867, built by Sylvester Howard Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts.[9]
In 1894, Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first series production motorcycle, and the first to be called a motorcycle (German: motorrad).[11][12][15] In the early period of motorcycle history, many producers of bicycles adapted their designs to accommodate the new internal combustion engine. As the engines became more powerful and designs outgrew the bicycle origins, the number of motorcycle producers increased.
Until World War I, the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world was Indian,[16][17] producing over 20,000 bikes per year.[18] By 1920, this honour went to Harley-Davidson, with their motorcycles being sold by dealers in 67 countries.[19][20] By the late 1920s or early 1930s, DKW took over as the largest manufacturer.[21][22][23]
After World War II, the BSA Group became the largest producer of motorcycles in the world, producing up to 75,000 bikes per year in the 1950s.[citation needed] The German company NSU held the position of largest manufacturer from 1955 until the 1970s.[citation needed]
In the 1950s, streamlining began to play an increasing part in the development of racing motorcycles and the "dustbin fairing" held out the possibility of radical changes to motorcycle design. NSU and Moto-Guzzi were in the vanguard of this development both producing very radical designs well ahead of their time.[24] NSU produced the most advanced design, but after the deaths of four NSU riders in the 1954–1956 seasons, they abandoned further development and quit Grand Prix motorcycle racing.[25] Moto-Guzzi produced competitive race machines, and by 1957 nearly all the Grand Prix races were being won by streamlined machines.[citation needed] The following year, 1958, full enclosure fairings were banned from racing by the FIM in the light of the safety concerns.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, small two-stroke motorcycles were popular worldwide, partly as a result of East German Walter Kaaden's engine work in the 1950s.[26]
Today, the motorcycle industry is mainly dominated by Japanese companies such as Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha, although Harley-Davidson and BMW continue to be popular and supply considerable markets. Other major manufacturers include Piaggio group of Italy, KTM, Triumph and Ducati.
In addition to the large capacity motorcycles, there is a large market in smaller capacity (less than 300 cc) motorcycles, mostly concentrated in Asian and African countries. An example is the 1958 Honda Super Cub, which went on to become the biggest selling vehicle of all time, with its 60 millionth unit produced in April 2008.[27] Today, this area is dominated by mostly Indian companies with Hero Honda emerging as the world's largest manufacturer of two wheelers.[28] For example, its Splendor
model which has sold more than 8.5 million to date.[29]