The ancestral home of the Schneider family is in the German state of Bavaria. The name Schneider is an occupational hereditary surname, a type of surname that was taken from a word describing or common to the profession of the original bearer. It is a name for a person who worked as a tailor.
The first mechanically-propelled, two-wheeled vehicle may have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839, although the claim is often disputed.
It is estimated  that by 1900 there were around 10 million bicycles.   French father and son Pierre and Ernest Michaux invented the modern  day pedal-and-crank bicycle in France in the 1860s.   The first true bicycle was invented in Scotland.