One of the Indian's most famous riders was Jake DeRosier, who set several speed records both in America and at Brooklands in England, and won an estimated 900 races on dirt and board track racing. He left Indian for Excelsior and died in 1913, aged 33, of injuries sustained in a board track race crash with Charles "Fearless" Balke, who later became Indian's top rider.
Work at the Indian factory was stopped while DeRosier's funeral procession passed so all of the employees could go out to pay their respects as it went by.
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