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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:1905-04-arthur-conan-doyle-on-motorbike-at-undershaw.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] on his ROC motorbike (april 1905)]]<br />
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[[File:1913-07-arthur-conan-doyle-autowheel-with-f-g-guggisberg-and-mr-st-quentin.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] with his auto-wheel. His friend F. G. Guggisberg on the left (july 1913).]]<br />
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[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] had financed the ROC cycle company (founded by A. W. Wall) which had manufactured one of his early motorcycle (see photo). He was also very interested in the Auto-Wheel motor that could be attached to a bicycle (see [[Cycling]]).<br />
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In 1903, he expressed the [[Letter about Commercial Travellers Motor Cycle (26 may 1903)|idea]] that some motor cycle firm should prepare a machine & trailer expressly for Commercial Travellers. In 1905, he entered his ROC motorcycle in the International motor-cycle race in Dourdan (France). his bike was driven by T. Messier, but unfortunately Tessier did not wished to participate to the eliminatory race at the last minute (see [[Motor Cycle Race|report]]).<br />
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== Conan Doyle about Motor cycle ==<br />
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* « ''I made 650 against his 1,000, which, as I was not helped by a bad fall from a motor bike a few days before, was as much as I could expect. '' » ([[Memories and Adventures]], 1923) <br />
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== Letters ==<br />
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* [[Letter about Commercial Travellers Motor Cycle (26 may 1903)|Letter about Commercial Travellers Motor Cycle]] (1903)<br />
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== Articles ==<br />
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* [[Motor Cycle Race]] (1905)<br />
* [[The Coming Race at Dourdan]] (1905)<br />
* [[Sir Conan Doyle as a Motor Cyclist]] (1905)<br />
* [[British Team for the International Motor-Cycle Cup]] (1905)<br />
* [[Hill Climbing Motor Contest]] (1905)<br />
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== Fictions with Motor cycle ==<br />
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* [[The Prisoner's Defence]] (1916)<br />
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* [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]</div>TCDE-Team