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| ROLAND PIKE |
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Although Roland Pike did
publish a small number of biography of his early years in motorcycling the
time he spent working at BSA remained in note form only, unpublished. In
my early research into the Daytona BSA I had tried to find Roland Pike as
I had many, many questions to ask him about his work on these bikes and at
BSA in general. I knew he had been living in the US for some time but I didn't have a contact address. I eventually managed to get in touch with his daughter but unfortunately a week or two after he died. However, his daughter very kindly gave me a paper copy of his BSA memoirs with permission to publish these on a website as long as they were used for research and enthusiast purposes only. Here are the memoirs, scanned, OCR'ed and mostly proofed (I'm still spotting some of my own typos!) from the original handwritten notes. They are presented in the original form with chapters that start at 17 (I think the previous published volume had chapters 1 - 16) and with chapter 25 missing. The memoirs are a gold mine
of information for BSA enthusiasts or anyone interested in the internal
workings of the British motorcycle industry during the early to late
1950's.
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