CYCLING.
ItIXOItDJtHKAKINI; ATTEMPT. The Australian overland cycli-st, brands Birtlcs, arrived in town yeslcnlny preparatory to making a descent on the ;>e\v 'Plymouth to Wanganui and Va!merston cycle road records. Weather permitting the record-breaking ridf: will be continued to Wellington. Birtles, who has rode, unattended, around and across tlio island continent and explored that country to some purpose, recently broko the Wellington-Napier, and Wel-iington-Palmerston and return records, ■lie left the "Daily News'' ollice at 4.W> a.m. this niorninu. and will endeavor to maintain an average r-peed of 15 miles au hour, including all stoppages. Later 011 he purpose* attempting to e>tablUh .a record, for tlie Wellin<rtou-to-Xew Plymouth and t'liristehurch-t.o-Dunedin records During tin; past two years Mr. ilSirtkvi has ridden *20,0110 miles, for the greater part in bush awl desert country. Tb- is riding a. KudgeWhitworth, shod ■with Continental lU>d road-raeing tyres, ami fitted with Armstrong triplex gear f —gears Go, H-l and 110.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 5
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152CYCLING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 5
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