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.
Who invented the dirt bike? Quick Answer. Though the popular manufacture of dirt bikes, or off-road style motorcycles, became more widespread in the 1960s, individual riders had been modifying their motorcycles for off-road capabilities for decades prior.