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The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede was a steam powered velocipede made in France sometime from 1867 to 1871 when a small Louis-Guillaume Perreaux commercial steam engine was attached to a Pierre Michaux manufactured iron framed pedal bicycle. It is one of three motorcycles claimed to be the first motorcycle along with the Roper steam velocipede of 1867 or 1868 and the internal combustion engine Daimler Reitwagen of 1885.
