Cycling.

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 205, 4 June 1904, Page 21

Cycling.

For this yeai's Dunlop TimaiuCliristchjuireli Road Rac© the pi ize-list is expected to leuch £180. Last ye.v tliere were 180 entries, tins year it is leckonied the numbei will be even larger. Private niatteirs may keep Major and Mrs. Taylor from getting -away fiom Sydney on June 6th, as at first pi opened. Should Tayloi be unable to get avrav by the middle of June, theie is it 3b said, ai probability of has remaining in Australia until next season The motor 'bus has made its appe.uance in Clu-istchurch, and one is now plying foi hire between Catliedial Stfuaie aiad tihei Railway Station. Theie is an opening for one m Wellington What about thei Quean's Drive, or tluough New town to Miramai 9 The Melbourne cycling amateur authorities have decided to allow a team of amateur riders to compete in the Victorian inter-club road contests, over 25 and 50 males, to be, held on the Sydney roads in July. Tins is the body that two years ago refused to allow their riders to compete in the Wai i nambool race foi trophies. The proba.bilitues are that the amateur authorities will ~et allow their load cracks to compete in the gieatest of all Australasian road events* — the Warrnambool to Melbourne race. In France no youth under eighteen years of age is peimitted to diive a motor car on the public roads. A very witee restriction, and one that ought to be brought into force m New Zealand. The Autmobile Club of Victoria has followed the example of the leading similar bodies in England, America, and France, and will not admit members under eighteen yeans of >age. We are in receipt from the Dunlop Tyre Company of a copy of then annual booklet, "All About Dunlop Tyres for 1904." This year's brochure comprises some forty-eight pages 1 of matter of interest to all cyclists, whilst motorists will find 1 much valuable inf ormatioaii conn oerttiing thei proper handling and repair of automobile tyres. The booklet is one well worth obtaining for its »rtis r ic merits alone, apart from the valuaVe information contained therein. It i-a issued "free, gratis, and' for nothn ig ' The "Nice Week," an annual automobile carnival, held in Italy, has been lespomsible for some remarkable bursts of speed, and gives a foretaste of vhat is to be expected in the way of speed ii the Gordon Bennett Cup amd its eliminating races. The hero of the Italian cannvail was Rigolly, who won the three lug events on the programme, on his 700 horse-power Grobton-Brillioi. Rigolly drove has Gordom-Beninett trial car, and wan the Mile Standing Competition in •j8 3-ssec (equal to 87 miles an hour), a world's record. Janatzy, wrnnier of last yeiair's Grordon-Beimiett Cut* run in Ireland', ran fourth in tMs event, in iH l-sth sec. F. H. Soheps, the wLnneir of last \ ear's Austral Wheel Race, left Sydney two weeks back for America, on a racir"- trip. He is accompanying Orlando Stevens back to the States. Soheps is the most improved rider in Australia. The Fairis-Roubaix Road Race, one of the most coveted road contests of Europe, 165 males long, has again been decided over the fine stretch of load lying between the two French citieis named. The race was won by Aucontuner, the champion road rider of Europe, in the record time of Bhrs 421 mins., has aiverage pace being; slightly over 20 mile® an hour throughout . He also won this event last year. J Arnst, the New Zealand representative can led off last year's Dxunlop Road Race, riding the 165 miles in 7lirs. -/Bminfi. , some thirty minutes faster thain Aucouturder, his average pace being over .a mile better an hour than the Fiench crack's performance.