MOTOR-CYCLISTS’ MOTTO

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22359, 24 March 1938, Page 10

MOTOR-CYCLISTS’ MOTTO

NEW SCHEME TO BE

ADOPTED BY CLUB

“LET US RIDE SANELY”

With a view .to preventing any accidents which would cause any repetition of recent unpleasant publicity, the Canterbury Auto-Cycle Club will adopt a scheme by which its 250 members will be educated to conduct themselves- on their motorcycles in a manner which would set an example with which other riders would fall into line. The scheme is based on one adopted by the American Motor-Cycling Association, which controls all motor-cycling throughout the United States, in May, 1937, and which has been very successfully operated since then. Copies pf safety-first rules will be issued to each member and all members and others interested will be called upon to make suggestions which will be considered, and if thought fit will be passed on in a new copy. At the end of a year each member who has no traffic conviction or any other mark against him during that year will be awarded a certificate called a Safety Award. The police are being approached with a view to co-opera-tion, and Mr G. L. Laurensbn, Commissioner of Transport, will be approached. It is hoped that (he scheme will be adopted throughout New Zealand by the various clubs, and that the proper use of motor-cycles will considerably reduce the present amount of public antipathy to motor-cyclists. The Canterbury club has adopted a rule that any person speeding or otherwise misconducting himself going to or from a sports meeting will be disqualified in any event in which he might be competing, and during the period in which it has been enforced the rule has been most effective. The club is anxious that motorcyclists in general be put on a better footing, and is confident that a good example set by its members will bring this about. Its slogan in the future will be: “Let us ride, but let us ride sanely.”