While the chronicles of motor vehicle history feature remarkable developments, such as the automatic transmission patented by Alfred Horner Munro a century ago, there have also been notable missteps. For example, the Tucker Model 48’s third headlight, the DeLorean’s troublesome gullwing doors, and pretty much everything about the notoriously junky Trabant 601.  As far as motorcycles go, there have been countless innovations of the two-wheeled vehicles since Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach patented the Daimler Reitwagen in 1885. Not
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