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.
Steam-Powered Bicycles. American Sylvester Howard Roper (1823-1896) invented a two-cylinder, steam-powered velocipede in 1867. This can be considered the first motorcycle, if you allow your description of a motorcycle to include a coal-fired steam engine.