Career
In 1910, Walker obtained his first motorcycle, an Excelsior. At 17 he worked as a postal delivery person in Birmingham using an Indian motorcycle for delivering mail. In the same year he left his job at the post office to go to work for a Birmingham Indian dealer named Bob Stubbs.
In 1914 Walker turned professional and worked in the testing room at the Indian headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts.
On June 7, while practicing alone on a track in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Walker crashed. He died in Rosenkrans Hospital in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on June 21.
Walker was inducted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.