MOTOR-CYCLING ON BRIGHTON BEACH

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 3

MOTOR-CYCLING ON BRIGHTON BEACH

Sir, —On Saturday. March 7, the Pioneer Motor-Cycle Club held a series of motor-cycling racing events on the north New Brighton beach. At about 4 p.m. seven young ladies, riding horses under perfect control under the leadership of a riding master, were confronted with four motor-cyclists with open exhausts going full blast, weaving and circling as close as they could get to the riders, apparently with the object of driving them off the beach. This mad act could easily have ended up with a stampede, accident, lofes of life. The following day, Sunday. March 8, a teenager rode down an elderly man on a motor-cycle, smashing his crutches. He was taken to hospital. Would the officials of the Pioneer Motor-Cycle Club please say if they were responsible for the action of the above-mentioned motor-cyclists? —Yours, etc..< DISGUSTED. March 18, 1953. [“After having experienced a great deal of trouble in the past from the appearance of a riding school at our beach meetings we now advise the riding master by letter each time we hold a meeting,” said the president of the Pioneer Motor-cycle Club (Mr D. Soanes), commenting on this letter. “This worked quite well until, at the meeting in question, the school appeared on the beach immediately be- ! fore an event commenced. Although , approached by club officials and asked to wait until the race had been run, the riding master was quite uncooperative. If an accident had occurred ; the club would certainly not have been at fault. As ‘Disgusted’ says, it was ‘a mad act’.”]