Motorcycling

Arthur Conan Doyle on his ROC motorbike (april 1905)

Arthur Conan Doyle with his auto-wheel. His friend F. G. Guggisberg on the left (july 1913).

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).

In 1903, he expressed the 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 report).

Conan Doyle about Motor cycle

• « 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)

Letters

• Letter about Commercial Travellers Motor Cycle (1903)

Articles

• Motor Cycle Race (1905)
• The Coming Race at Dourdan (1905)
• Sir Conan Doyle as a Motor Cyclist (1905)
• British Team for the International Motor-Cycle Cup (1905)
• Hill Climbing Motor Contest (1905)

Fictions with Motor cycle

• The Prisoner's Defence (1916)

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