BELL BICYCLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 11

BELL BICYCLES.

'"As sound as a Bell" can rightly be applied to the Bell Bicycles manufactured in this city by Messrs Bell Brothers, of High street. The firm produce bicycles that satisfy in every particular the requirements oi" all classes of riders, and in their window and shop they exhibit thirty of their own manufactured machines, including the roadster on which Jack Arnst put up the record for the distances between Christchurch and Dunedin, and between Christchurch and Timaru, and the roadster ridden by Fred Wells, the New Zealand track champion. All the machines exhibited have been manufactured on the firm's premises; the electroplating is on copnor, according to the latest English methods, and tho enamelling is done by the dipping process, resulting in a brilliant finish, in the minimising of the effects of usage, and in preventing rust. Tlie greatest possible attention i.s paid by the firm to the strength and reliability of the materials' used, and only the best material is utilised. The fact that a Bell bicycle withstood the severe test imposed upon it by the ChristchurchDunedin ride of Arnst, unquestionably the hardest bicycle pusher in the Dominion, speaks louder than words of tho thorough reliability of tho Bell machine. The Bell bicycle is specially reinforced, giving greater strength without increasing the weight. The repair department of I\fessrs Bell Brothers' business is under the personal supervision of the members of the firm ; an excellent foreman is in charge of expert workmen, practically no boys being employed. Repairs are, therefore, effected expeditiously and executed in a thorough manner. Since the Dunlop road race from Christchurch to Timaru was abandoned tho riders of Bell bicycles have won the following events:— J Tozer, first and fastest time, Christchurch to Leeston and back; Ralph Rodgers, the firm's Timaru agent, first and fastest between Timaru and Geraldine; and Jack Arnst, record time between Christchurch and Dunedin. Bell bicycle riders have also pulled off successes in almost every race of consequence in tho Dominion recently. The New Zealand championships—half-mile, mile, three miles, and five miles—were won by riders of Bell bicycles. Surely no better evidence than this could bo given in support of tho contention that Bell bicycles are "sound as a bell."