As a teenager I read Seven Pillars without much comprehension,
but I re-read it in my late twenties and began to understand that it was
more than a great "boy's own" yarn. When I discovered that Lawrence was
also a motorcyclist I began researching his history in ernest.
This page was started in 1997. At the time, there was only one site
about him and that one was mostly about his guns. That page has gone (I
have a partial archive of it somewhere) but there are now many others proclaiming
the machine as the rightful owner of the phrase, "The Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles",
and which hail Lawrence as its most aclaimed rider.
If there were a top ten of motorcyclists, where would he reside, I wonder.
Thank you, Peter, for the inspiration.
