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Motor cycle   Listen
noun
motor cycle, motorcycle  n.  A two-wheeled vehicle having a motor attached so as to be self-propelled. In common usage, a motorcycle is of heavier construction with larger wheels, a more powerful motor, and a higher maximum speed than a motorbike. Note: A motorcycle may have a small appended compartment called a sidecar, supported by a third wheel, which can carry a passenger. Note: In Great Britain as of 1913 the term motor cycle was treated by statute () as limited to motor cars (self-propelled vehicles) designed to travel on not more than three wheels, and weighing unladen (that is, without water, fuel, or accumulators necessary for propulsion) not more than three hundred weight (336 lbs.).






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"Motor cycle" Quotes from Famous Books



... shaking hysterically, "I must get rid of it or go mad. For two hours I have been driving about in a motor car with—it for a passenger. I drove to a quiet spot and I tried to lift it out—a policeman rode up! I tried again, a man rushed by on a motor cycle, and turned to look at me! I tried a few minutes later—the policeman came back! It was always the same. The night seemed to have eyes. I was watched everywhere. The—the face began to mock me. I'll swear that I ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... assisted the Gentleman with a motor cycle and sidecar on the Downs on Tuesday communicate with him at Greenbank ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. • Various

... of any cities we fly over want to take a chance and chase us in an aerial motor cycle, let 'em come!" ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis

... over. The young Belgian officer has flown away on his motor cycle to pot Germans; Mrs. Torrence has gone off to the field with the Colonel on the quest of the greatest possible danger. The ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair

... my boy came in again—the Englishman was coming back. Well, I thought if this fellow has so much nerve, I had better get dressed. Unwashed, in my nightshirt, without leggings, hardly half dressed, I rode out to the camp on my motorcycle. I got there in time to see the fellows (not one, but four!) dropping bombs on the aviation field. As I was, I got into my machine and went up after them. But as the English had very speedy machines and headed for home after dropping ...
— An Aviator's Field Book - Being the field reports of Oswald Boelcke, from August 1, - 1914 to October 28, 1916 • Oswald Boelcke



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