Pale Rider
Legendary Member
They did, although the bike came first.
John Kemp Starley formed the Rover Cycle Company to manufacture his Rover Safety Bicycle which, as you say, became the foundation design for all bicycles - two wheels of the same size, chain drive to the rear, held together by a diamond frame.
That was in the 1890s.
According to wiki, in the early 1900s the Rover Cycle Company began making motorcycles, and then cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kemp_Starley
