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.
The first version of what is essentially today's bicycle (the Rover) was by John Kemp Starley in 1885, and was never patented. There's a recurring claim that Da Vinci invented the bicycle-or at lest had made drawings of something bicycle-looking.