High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lucius Day Copeland was a pioneering 19th-century engineer and inventor from Phoenix, Arizona who demonstrated one of the first motorcycles, a steam-powered "Star" penny-farthing high-wheeled bicycle at the first Maricopa County Fair in 1884. Copeland also invented the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car. About 200 of his "Phaeton steamers" were produced before he retired in 1891. Peter Gagan, a former president of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, was able to trace an 1884 "Star" bicycle with the original engine to the Phoenix Museum of History. Although he wasn't allowed to use the original engine, Gagan was able to take sufficiently detailed measurements to create a full-scale, working replica. Although the replica was not completed, it was hurriedly assembled to feature at the Guggenheim's Art of the Motorcycle Exhibition when it opened in Las Vegas in October 2001.

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