PAUL D’ORLÉANS
“ Indian’s effort peaked in 1911, when they took 1-2-3 at the TT, and DeRosier trounced Charlie Collier’s Matchless at Brooklands. ”
THE AFTERNOON WAS muggy but tolerable in the shade of an oak tree, sitting on the deck of the family cabin, overlooking a rolling field to the sea. Our non-motorcycling guest, photographer Peter Kitchell, asked ‘what’s so fascinating about motorcycles?’ I replied ‘the politics, for one thing.’ His raised eyebrow led to a story from 1925, and two French photographs discovered this year that revealed
