1500 MILES IN S X DAYS ON A MOTOR OYCLE. Some wonderful ride® have been accomplihed on the modern motor oyolie, 'but no performance has* ever been recorded in tie colonies of Hong dfebance endurance riding' that can compare with Mr -Deady's recent performance. On, Monidiay, the 20th November last, Mr Dendy, a Canterbury motor cjcfct, ifftarted' out on tons record ruin to cover 1500 milee-in sdx days, and the maximum rfdfimg time in each day ,not to exceed 12 hours. The route chosen was' from Ohristchurch; to laveroargifll. Excitement grew very iwfceH.Be when it w-a-s made known that Dendy had cover*!! 1110 mites up till 8 a.m. <mi ¥rios' night, and it was argued (by •"•( fcnowni critics that to compifr' bfi, 1500 miles on Saturday's .of twelve hours would mean that Dendy had' to ride 390 miles at am average speed" of 32 miles task, over anotuntainis, tussock roads, amd through liver beds and water races. It ois onlljy first class material and, workmanship that can come through tests Sake (these with flying coleuips, and joist m the clock was efcrikning eight, delad on time, end in the presence of thousands' of spectattravel stained, having accomplished his great iride without one mechanical stop or adjustment, +he owl'y trouble experienced being one puncture. , Dendy (rode a 1911 model 3$ h.p. Premier motor cydlle. j , Immediate delivery can he given, o/ these famous maoldtaes. i**B& stocks- *o chloose t'tom. TOURIST MOTOR CO., Ltd , HASTINGS. Soite Agents for New Zealand. R. POOK. Mastertom Aasnt. j Nature's Embrocation. ROCKE'S ! Eucalyptus Oil. The finest that A.u* I tralia produces. There's Sometbina ■ DiatißctiT» About EOOKE'B.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 5
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