NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 8

NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.

"Keen Motor Cyclist," in answer to my letter re above, sends in a cutting which cuts no ice at all and is certainly not an answer to iiiy assertions. Firstly, the-cutting is from an English paper re an English experiment. Secondly, it is in relation to an advertisement for a special cycle, the name of which is left blank, and is intended to show, inter alia, that their make of cycle is silent. Thirdly, it was driven at only 2.~> miles per hour. My assertions were not made against cycles in London, but in Auckland—a very different proposition, as in England 20 years ago the police were quickly down not only on noisy cars and cycles, but on those who released clouds of black smoke, so that by now riders should he well trained in keeping the law; whereas here one can see cyclists thundering past traffic officers like Catling guns -any day. How many motor cyclists in the Auckland district travel at. 2o ni.p.h.? Most of them travel from 40 miles per hour upwards. One particular party 1 have in mind off\Sandringham Road conies from a side street on to the main road at such a speed that his cycle leans over at a really dangerous angle while his exhaust—with silencer on—sounds like a nest of machine guns. If Professor Low came to Auckland his machine would turn his London figures' upside down, making, as I still assert, the motor evelist the noisiest on bis list. U.M.P.