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The first motorcycles were offered to the public in (the same year the company's cars became known as Pierce-Arrows). The Pierce cycle was the first.

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The ladies model had no crossbar from the handlebar support to the seat stem allowing a graceful entry or exit from the bicycle. The Pierce company also built the Pierce Arrow automobile. The Pierce Cycle Company would face some financial distractions from to but despite this and would be successful years for strengthening the reputation and performance of Pierce motorcycles. Pierce Company built a steam car, which proved troublesome, but a trip to Europe by three Pierce executives convinced the company the De Dion motor was the future; they had a gasoline-powered prototype running that same year. The Pierce Four was the first four-cylinder motorcycle produced in the United States.

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The Pierce Four was the first four-cylinder motorcycle produced in the United States. Pierce, owner of the GN Pierce Company, built refrigerators and bird cages in the s, and expanded into bicycle manufacture by , with the famous 'arrow' logo.

Many of their bicycles used a shaft drive for the rear wheel. Three members of the GN Pierce board of directors traveled to Europe in to acquire new technology, and they purchased a DeDion engine to power a new automobile.

Pierce's son Percy was a competition driver of Pierce automobiles. By , he was appointed head of the new Pierce Cycle Company, with the intention of producing motorcycles. Following factory tradition, he traveled to Europe for technical inspiration and acquired a Belgian FN Four in , which was shipped back to the Pierce factory for study. The new Pierce was innovative, with a stressed member engine and shaft drive , [6] and a frame of very large-diameter tubing, that both hid the control cables and held oil and gasoline internally.

Early models had no clutch and fixed gearing, like the competing FN Four, but the model was greatly improved, with a clutch and two-speed transmission. The motorcycle is said to have cost more to build than its sale price and eventually bankrupted Pierce Motorcycle Company after fewer than were built. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Oil was carried in the down tube. Retrieved from " https: American motorcycles Motorcycles introduced in the s Vehicles introduced in Pages using deprecated image syntax.

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