MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18122, 11 July 1924, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING.

NOTES. A matter that few motor-cycle sideraristo pay attention to is the position of the exhaust tube relativo to the sideear and passenger. If fitted on the side-car side, such noise as the efficiency or otherwise of the silencer allows to occur, comes just at ihe point which ensures its being as audible as possible to the side-car passenger. Many r machine which, from the saddle, appears quite reasonably silenced, is to tli© passenger in the f,de-ear, exceedingly noisy. Transferring the exhaust pipe to the opposite side of the machine entirely cures this trouble.

There is a farther and not unimportant effect of the near exhaust, which is not realised by many people, and this is the action of the exhaust in stirring up dust, particularly where a drilled tail-pipe of the pepper-box type is employed. Who has not experienced the discomforts of a side-car in which the passenger's head and shoulders are inevitably covered with dust in the first 10 miles of a run over _ fine summer roads? Again, the. cure is simple and obvious. It is particularly urgent, because should over-lubrication lie indulged in unwittingly, the passenger may be smothered in a spray of fine oil >r smolco spots, with results decidedly disastrous to clothing. Here, then, is a simple reform which can he easily carried out by any manufacturer of machines intended for side-car work, iind which will vet confer considerable lonciits. Consideration for tho sideear passenger is as necessary as the more obviously essential requirements which concern the power plant or other components of the motor-cycle itself.

Oil .Tunc 28I'd tho Australian Grand Prix was held at Goulburn, N.8.W., rncr a course of 203 jmles, and resulted fn a tvin for Dave Brewster (Indian). T. Beustead (Harlev) coming second. Hrewster also von the All Powers-Han-dicap, beating a Harl'oy (2nd) and A.J.S. (3rd).

Dare Bi •0.-svster is oiw .oi' itie bestknown riders in New South Wales, and since ho started racing in 1.917, he has many wins to his credit. Some of r-hcm heing first, and fastest time in a bill climb at Mai-oubra, Ist ajid fastest Lime S laps under 650 c.c., Victoria Park : Ist and l'astost, 00-mile All

IV.Tver Handicap lload ftace, at Harfciov.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A MOTOR-CYCLE.

You oar; enjov a spin every morning ;iud evening between your place of business and home. You can enjoy an invigorating ride after dinner every evening.' You can enjoy a. trip into the country or to distant cities every week-end in spring, summer, and fall. Or. you can join your club-mates in a week-end hill-climb, sociability run, picnic, or race-meet. ' Y'ou can travel from one end of the country to the pother on a vacation tour and enjoy pleasures that only "the rich could once afford. . You can enjoy a camping trip ' as often as you'have the time and inclination. . You can erijoy hunting and fishing during the open seasons, for the motorcycle reaches the best hunting grounds and tii© remo'test trout streams. You can enjoy the constant satisfaction of knowing that you possess the finest automotive engine oil the highways, and that none but the very high-est-priced. cars can vie with you in speed.

You can enjoy motor-cycling to its fullest possibilities, and 'still be able to put by something for a rainy day.