The bicycle was the first thing that happened before the motor bike.
During this time the people were improving the technology of engines, people could now make the engines smaller.This was the start of the motorbikes.What happened was that people saw how the bicycle was powered along by the rider making the chain go round which turned the wheel, there were many people put engines into a bicycle's but many of the weren't successful.Karl Friedrich Benz and John Kemp Starley were the first people to build a succsessful petrol powered motor bike. They both had different designs on how to make their motor bikes. These mootor bikes were made n Germany