MOTOR-CYCLING AND HEALTH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING AND HEALTH.

THE. NEED FOE CARE. "Hullo, you do look seedy!" 'Teel it, too."' "What's the matter ?" "Nothing much; The doctor calls it muscular influenza. I call it worse names than that." "How did you get it?" "How? Got a ohill on the motor, getting against a sharp southerly, and it developed into what I've had. . I've been in purgatory, old man, and am still getting glimpses of it." The foregoing conversation took place in Wellington yesterday. The speaker was a man who, in the course ot his busrness, does a good deal of motor-cycling. Ho was looking very wretched—hence the foregoing conversation. The evils attendant upon motor-cycling without wearing cold-proof clothing are not i generally recognised. Another case occurred in Wellington a few months ago, in which a young man, after motor-cycling for a considerable distance in-' light'' clothing against a cold wind, became so thoroughly chilled that it affected his spine, and partial paralysis ensued, from which ho is only now recovering. Heavy woollen undershirts and pants, heavy-weight sweaters, and thick tweed coats and knickers, with woollen stockings and leggins make the ideal outfit for the motor-cyolist in winter. • Those who take up motor-cycling as a recreation are too prone to. regard it merely as a phase of ordinary cycling, but in the latter case the cyclist is working hard and exercising a full set of muscles tho whole time, which keeps his system in a glow, wheTeas his confrero of tho motor-cyclo site stock-still as he rushes through tlio ■air. at double the paco of an ordinary bioroli«t;