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The Copeland steam bicycle was a steam powered two-wheeled motor vehicle made by Lucius Copeland in 1881 and is sometimes classed as an early motorcycle.In 1881 Copeland designed an efficient small steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of a Columbia penny-farthing having a big wheel at the front and small wheel at the back at 12 miles per hour (19 km/h).In 1884 Copeland used an American Star bicycle smaller steering wheel in front to construct a new demonstration vehicle for the Maricopa County Fair that year.

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