RELIABILITY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 7

RELIABILITY.

■ » — ■, MOTOR C.C.'S 200-MILE TRIAL. A 200-mile reliability trial, open to, any member of any recognised motor cycling club, is to be held on Monday week (Labour Day), the 'start being from the Custom House at 6 a.m. The Toute will be divided into four sections,but theso will not be made known until a few minutes before the competitors enter upon the. respective sections. Just before leaving the starting point, written instructions will bo handed to each competitor. as to wha:t constitutes the first section, and at the end of each section similar instructions as to the succeeding section will be dealt out. There will be, four fixed controls, which will be notified on the checking and route cards,'and competitors must arrive at each of these stations at tho times marked on the checking cards. In addition, there will be two secret controls, but differences in the times of arriving at these stations will not be counted except in the event of a tie. Competitors, will start off in teams of four each, and each, batch must keepwithin 200 yards of one another from start to finish, on penalty of disqualification. • , Competitors with : passengermachines will have to carry a 10-stono passenger.. Speedometers are barred. Speed: Machines under 600 c.c., 20 miles per hour; solo machines over 600 c.0., 23 miles; and,passenger machines over 600 0.0., 18 miles. The trial is expected to finish about 6 p.m.