A TANDEM RIDE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5

A TANDEM RIDE

("Post" Special Correspondent.)

TWO MEN ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH A RECORD PERTH TO SYDNEY

Adelaide, Nov. 19. With a badly sprained shoulder and numerous abrasions William Read and Gordon Jones, both of Midland (W.A.), arrived in Adelaide to-night on the tandem bicycle on which they are attempting to establish a record ride of 23 days between Perth and Sydney. The two men have undergone a strenuous ordeal during the 15 days on the road, and had to contend with a stiff head wind and hot weather for most of the journey across the Nullarbor Plain. They spent a day and a'half wheeling their machine through heavy sand and at one stage had 12 punctures in 16 miles, and finished up by walking 10 miles to their destination. Read received his injuries when the bicycle crashed at 40 miles an hour, when travellmg down a steep hill ontside Port Augusta. Read has lost 1611b and Jones 111b so far. They have averaged 122 miles a day, and will leave for Melbourne at dawn to-rorrow, hoping to reach there on Wednesday. They will go through Wangaratta to Sydney.