Cycling Notes.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2203, 11 July 1910, Page 3

Cycling Notes.

The long-talkcdof £IOO car has materialized once more, in the shape of a new American introduction called the “ IVjotz.” This little car, which will retail in America at £95 15s, ready •for the road, weighs only 5J cwts. It has al2h. p. two-cylinder air-cooling engine, which opposed, offset, cylinders, splash lubrication, friction drive (with balance gear,) tubular axles, tangent wire wheels, 2| ” x 28 ” tyres. Bosch high tension magneto, wheel steering, full elliptic springs front and rear, 81 ” wheel base, 18 ” track, and is said to be capable of any speed from two to forty miles per hour, and to be able to climb any gradient. In America, where the “ Motz "is produced in large quantities, the factory prefers not to sell the car complete, their practice being to pack all the component parts, down to the smallest screw or split pin, in crates, and de-iver them to the purchaser with full instructions for assemblage, leaving him to put the car together himself. They claim that with this they can do with a factory half the size that would be required if theyassemb' led and stocked the complete cars themselves; the price f>r the car in sections being only £76. They will supply the assembled car on demand at the higher price already quoted. A pecular feature of supplying the parts is that even the body is sent out in the grey, the necessary paint, brushes, etc, being supplied with the outfit. Beyond the saving in price, the Motz. (Jo. put forward as a very great virtue in their method of supply the fact that in assembling his own car the new owner must automatically

become intimately acquainted with every detail of its manufacture, and is, therefore, in a far better position than usual to keep it in order and to get the best results out of it. A word of warning to road riders who intend competing in this season's big road events as to using tissue paper tyres or tyres of a too small diameter will not be amiss just now, Uiders should remember that a puncture means the loss of any chance of success, and with it all their training work and incidental expenses, and that the bettor the make and quality of the tyro the less likelihood there hj of tyre troubles. In the way of road “ speed ” tyros, nothing has yet been seen on the Australian roads to approach in appearance and shape the new non-slipping, road racing cover just put on the market by the Dunlop Company. The cover is the outcome of the Dunlop Company’s experience in road racing matters, and nothing approaching it has yet been seen on our roads. Any rider may obtain a section of the new cover by applying to the Dunlop Rubber Co.’s depot, 121 Worcester Street, Christchurch.