The period of motorcycle mania  follows after bicycles. The Laurin & Klement company introduces its first motorcycles to newspaper reporters in Prague in 1899.  The less powerful model A has 1,25 horsepower, the more powerful model B 1,75 horsepower. The factory expands and in 1900 exports its machines to England for example.

Additional models are added and the company collects the first awards at international exhibitions. In 1901 L&K machines successfully take part in the first international race on the Paris-Berlin route, a year later an L&K motorcycle wins the first race in Bohemia!

Up to 1909 Laurin & Klement manufactured nearly 4000 motorcycles of various types and designs.

But as with bicycles before them, a new phenomenon, the automobile,