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298:"America on the Move | Long steam tricycle"
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219:List of motorcycles of the 1890s
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454:"A novel steam road vehicle..."
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224:History of steam road vehicles
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152:Solid tires on spoked wheels
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214:List of motorized trikes
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180:Smithsonian Institution
16:19th-century motorcycle
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550:Roper steam velocipede
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565:Geneva steam bicycle
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235:References
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