Expensive vandalism
Someone in Papanui—or perhaps someone who was visiting the Harris Crescent area on Saturday — does not like cyclists. Two competitors in the D Grade of the Avon club’s annual open criterium. R. Thomson and B. Lea, finished in first and second places but with flat tyres, both pierced by drawing pins. The B grade novices, before they started, did a slow lap of the block to look for the offending instruments. J. Tabak. a new rider this season, found them all right: he, too, came back with a new tyre punctured.
It appears a packet of drawing pins had been deliberately scattered onto the road by a person or group who do not appreciate that cyclists, already competing in a very expensive sport, are faced with bills of up to $l5 for each new tubular.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33235, 26 May 1973, Page 4
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137Expensive vandalism Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33235, 26 May 1973, Page 4
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