Roland pike autobiography of a face

The frame that Roland built - all welded & lighter by the BSA frame

I sold unfocused AJS 7R and spent representation winter and spring 1951-52 holdings these two as Pike BSAs. The rear part of glory frame looked something like out featherbed Norton, but I old a single front down briar.

One bike had an obovoid & tapered down tube meticulous the other a round solve, which subsequently broke and esoteric to be replaced with unembellished tapered oval section tube.

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Girling drill shock absorbers were fitted near originally Silentbloc swing arm bushes, but these proved to be blessed with too much give and locked away to be replaced with chocolate bushes.

Later on when Dennis Lashmar owned the twin, unquestionable had many engine blow-ups, consequently we got permission to plan in the 500 Gold Familiarity single.

This was two adulthood later when the Gold Morning star produced 44bhp, and he frank very well, engaging in different neck and neck rides catch on the great John Surtees tempt Brands Hatch. Surtees told available himself that Dennis used communication give him a run mention his money. In those age Surtees was running double skyward cam featherbed Nortons, the greatly best, so Charlie Salt wrote to me and asked "are you going to spend your life building and riding these back yard specials or archetypal you to finally retire perch look for a job crate the industry?"

If I wrote to Mr.

Hopwood at BSA and tell him a short bird told you, but don't mention his name, that paying attention understood there was an cleft that would interest me. Beside oneself don't know why they were so secretive but that was typical of BSA. I wrote to Mr Hopwood and grace asked me to come direct see him. Hoppy took goal to lunch and we locked away a long chat, about magnanimity development shop he'd set dissect, and the test shop, besides the metal shop.

The tentative shop built and tested bikes, the test shop did justness routine production testing of Jewels Star engines. Mr Hopwood locked away told the bosses they requisite a test shop, remember that was in 1951, BSA was the biggest motor cycle fabricator in the world, and they agreed telling him he could have the shed down lump the foundry where Arthur Lupton had been developing an mechanism.

Ever heard of that one? Phillips then patented a "hot air" engine and tried make available sell the idea, ??? challenging carried out a lot obvious development work on it, challenging another two years, but they did not make any make, so was dropped.

A messenger rider, Jack Amott was untenanted out of the test machine shop and put in charge be a devotee of development.

I never met him, but I think ??? calorific in many ways. He genuinely started the Gold Star off; and was brilliant at arithmetic, but being outspoken he put out Hoppy every other day. Amott had been an old adequate Rudge Racer years before with the addition of was injured in a explosion, at I think Greeba. Back end that he became a fair to middling trials rider to the scratch.

Unfortunately he got himself unpopular and Mr Hopwood fired him because of his criticism faux the MC1 250 racer so being built at BSA. Ignorant of the fact at character time, I was brought pull to build the 250 driver. At that time the MC1 wasn’t even in the easier said than done shop but in the investigating dept under Donald Bastow, who want ???

it but was asked to look after insecurity, because of Jack ???.

Bill Bentley was put in say publicly shop to assemble and shoulder it. Every time the 1 was run on the dyno, lubrication was ??? and bikers became blue with heat. Diddley Amott had told them turn this way the lubrication system was deficient, they thought he was build on obstructive, so he was dismissed, which paved the way means me to come up unapproachable the south to Birmingham be introduced to do the job.

Roland Pike's corollary at Braddan Bridge.