Reliability Contest, Motorcycles, Men

There were 16 different automobile contests at the 1900 Paris Exposition. From 18-23 June, with the exception of 21 June, the motorcycles had to complete 70 laps of the track at Lac Daumesnil near Vincennes each day, 30 laps in the morning and 40 in the afternoon, for a daily total of 160 km. There were 13 motorcycles entered, and all participated.

The winning Werner vehicle in this event was a motorcycle while the three winning Rochet-Petit vehicles were tricycles, although one of them may have been a quadricycle. Créanche and Luc had tricycles while the Renault machine was a quadricycle. The brothers Eugene and Michel Werner, of Russian origin, had invented the motocyclette in 1897, with which they won one of the first prizes.