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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 5

1500 MILES IN SSX DAYS ON A MOTOFt CYCLE.

Some wonderful rddeg have been aocomiplilhed on the modern motor j cycle, 'but no (performance has over beea (recorded an the colliooalie& of Long distance endurance riding that cam compare wditfli Mr Dendy's recent performance. On Moaudiay, the 20th November last, Mr Dendy, a Canterbury motor cyclist, ist&rted out on has. record ruin to cover 1500 mile® in. six days, and tihe maximiuim r&d&ng time am eaichl day not to exceed 12 hours. The route chosen wa»' from Chrifitdhurcih] to InivercargilE, Excitement grew very intense wftuem it "was made known that Dendy had covered 1110 indites _up tiKl 8 a.m. om Friday night, and it was argu'ed iby well' kruowni critics that to complete tihe 1500 males on Saturday'®l rum> of twelve hours would moan that Dendy "had' to nide 390 miles at am average fip'eedi of 32 mile® an h»u/r, a •seemingly EimpoesiWlfe task, over imotuiutaims, tussock roads, amd through river beds and water races-. It ins 'only first class material and workmanship that can, come through tests like thiese with flying colours, and just as the clock was striking eight, dead on time, and no the presen>oe of thousandte of spectators, Derndy aa-rivedi, tired, weary, and travel staked, having" accomplished hEs great ride without/ one mecha/ns. 1 - cal stop or adjustment, +he only trouble experienced being one puncture. Dendy rode a 1911 model 3J h.p. Pfremier motor cycllie. Immediate delivery oapi lb© giveai of these famous maeSimeß. LMtftfi stocks to. chloose from. TOURIST MOTOR CO., Ltd., HASTINGS. Soite Agent's for New Zealand. R. POOK. Masterboni Agent.

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