Orient - All Models

Company History

Built by Waltham Manufacturing under Charles Metz, Orient motor-bicycles belong to motorcycling’s dawn. Lightweight frames, clip-on engines, and belt or direct drives explored how combustion power could augment human mobility long before standards formed. Orient machines competed on early road runs and tracks, testing carburation, ignition, and durability while bicycle craft evolved into motorcycle engineering. Though the brand faded as the industry consolidated, it left behind a blueprint: iterate quickly, race to learn, and treat two wheels as a serious vehicle rather than novelty. Historically, Orient stands with Hildebrand-Wolfmüller and De Dion-Bouton as part of the origin story—clever, fragile, and brave machines that let personal motor transport escape the workshop.