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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10499, 11 December 1911, Page 5

150 ft MILES IN SIX DAYS ON A MOTORCYCLE. Some wonderful ride® Kave been saocomjpliihed on. the modem motor oydlie, 'but n*> performance [has ever recorded m the oologies of long distance endurance riding that can compare .with Mr DendyV recent performance. On Momidiay, the 20th, November last, Mr Dendy, a Canterbury motor cyclist, started' out. on 'has record- mm to cover 1500 taffies iin. six days, and <tfhe ma xi mum ridfiing time in each! day nob to exceed 12 howe. The route chosen was' from to IniveroargiDl. Excitement grew very intense when it was made known that Dendy had: covered 1110 mites up tiK. 8 a.m. <ra Friday night, and it was argued jby 'well l knowni critics that to complete tibe 1500 miles on Saturday's' run> of twelve' hours woold mean that Dendy had.' to rdde 390 miles at a<n average fip'eed' of 32 miles an taw, a seemingly knpossifcflfe task, over mounitaiiiis, tussock roads, and through river bedsi and water races. It riiS' onJy first c3a®s ma/tena! and workmanship that can come through tests like /tibe®® with flying coiours, and just as the clock was striking eight, 1 'deiad on time, and in the presence of thousands' of spectators, Dendy arrived;, tired, weary, and travel 1 stauned,. having accomplished hfo> great nide without one mechanical stop or the onUy trouble experienced being one. punict'TXPC. Dendy rodo a. 19.11 model 1 - 31 h.p. Plremier motor cycle. f , • ■ Immediate delivery oaaj. be gives. ft? these famous maciiinee. gp stocks' -to chloose' from. ' TOURIST MOTOR CO., Ltd., HASTINGS. Sote Agents for New Zealand. R. POOK, Masterton. Agent.