MOTOR CYCLES.

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 11

MOTOR CYCLES.

TJ THE EDITOR. * Sir, —I noticed a, paragraph in the 1 Star ’ about a couple of nights ago which referred to motor cycles and the noise which frequently emanates from them. A speaker at the meeting of the Otago Motor Club suggested that, in order to prevent noises from the exhausts of motor cycles, some local body should see that the silencers of all machines were sealed. He complained that selling agents frequently removed th “baffle,” or some such contrivance, and this, it seemed, allowed the full blast of the exhaust to be liberated. Now, 1 must confess that I don’t know a baffle from a pterodactyl, but the thought has struck me that if agentsgo to the trouble of removing baffle-., so indiscriminately these articles must be very valuable indeed. Probably they are of far more value than the cycles themselves. It seems to me, then, that the best way to deal with this problem is to muster all the machines as they arrive in the dominion, take them away from around their baffles, sell the baffles as teethers for babies, and sink all the cycles at the Otago Heads in order that they should assist the mole, the Moana, and other things in deflecting the tide. In this way I believe that motor cycles would be put to their greatest possible use.—l am, etc., Peace and Safety, February 17.