The first USA production motorcycle was the Orient-Aster, built by the Metz Company in Waltham, Massachusetts.
It used an Aster engine which was a French-built copy of the DeDion-Buton. It predated the Indian (1901) by three years, and Harley-Davidson (1903) by four.
this is a hint for Bo's August 2007 trivia question
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