SMALL-WHEELED TRICYCLES.
What can bo done on small-wheeled J bicycles has just been proved liv the performance of Mr Adams, who, riding a 44-inch " Facile" bicycle, started at midnight, Friday, September 14, from , a point one mile beyond Burnet, on the Hatfield road, and rode through Hitchin, Biggleswade, Bedford, St, Neots, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, returning by the same road to Hitchin, and went on to Langford, which he ( reached at midnight on the Saturday, having covered a distance of 24-i miles in the 24 hours. The roads were, in r many places, heavy with wet, and Jn some time was lost on the way. Had *■ ™ it not been for lhes3 difficulties over . 250 miles would certainly have been . accomplished. Messrs Larrette and , Barrow, in accompanying Mr Adams from Cambridge to St, Neots, rode 18 l , miles in 25 minutes, a splendid piece w of road-riding on a tricycle. V '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 25 July 1884, Page 3
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149SMALL-WHEELED TRICYCLES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 25 July 1884, Page 3
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