1914 FN 6hp

A 4-cylinder machine from Belgium. Introduced in 1904, the FN was the first successful 4-cylinder motor cycle, and featured leading-link forks and shaft drive. Also, those forks seem to be the same design as I spotted on a 1904 single-cylinder FN, in which case they're telescopic. There's very little in motorcycle design that hasn't been around since the first 20 years of the century, even if the technology in those days couldn't quite match the innovative ideas.